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"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity.
The film Student of the Year mentioned the name of the speech as a clue in the treasure hunt game. The Let's Crack It song owned by Unacademy made its intro using the actual speech voice clips. In the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks, the indie rock band, Parikrama (Band), released a single "One" in tribute, which sampled part of the speech
Romeo and Juliet borrows from a tradition of tragic love stories dating back to antiquity. One of these is Pyramus and Thisbe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, which contains parallels to Shakespeare's story: the lovers' parents despise each other, and Pyramus falsely believes his lover Thisbe is dead. [5]
A story of romantic love, esp. one which deals with love in a sentimental or idealized way; a book, film, etc., with a narrative or story of this kind. Also as mass noun: literature of this kind. Overlap is also sometimes found between the above terms, when literary romance also contains a strong love interest.
In 1884, Brander Matthews, the first American professor of dramatic literature, published The Philosophy of the Short-Story. During that same year, Matthews was the first one to name the emerging genre "short story". [22] Another theorist of narrative fiction was Henry James, who produced some of the most influential short narratives of the time.
"Old Love" is a short story written by English author Jeffrey Archer. Published in 1980 in Archer's A Quiver Full of Arrows by Hodder & Stoughton , it is the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry that ends in a tragic love story.
The word アイ("AI") can be read as the Japanese word ai (love) but is also the regular transcription of English "I", continuing a minor theme of double meanings in Evangelion titles. [12] Major plot points of the visual novel adventure game YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World are based on this story. [citation needed]
The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format was stretched by Little, Brown and Company to fill 138 pages for a book publication. [1] A transcript of the speech circulated online as early as June 2005. [2]