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Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and "The Widow and Her Son") to the picaresque ("Little Britain") and the comical ("The Mutability of Literature"), but the common thread running through The Sketch Book – and a key part of its attraction to readers – is the personality of Irving's pseudonymous narrator, Geoffrey Crayon.
"Mutability" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley 's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) although his authorship is not acknowledged, while the 1816 poem by Leigh Hunt is acknowledged with ...
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
Banks's novel The Manchester Man was first serialised in Cassell's Magazine between January and November 1874, [5] before being published in three volumes in 1876. [6] The book became her most lasting achievement and is considered to be an important social and historical novel, charting the rise of Jabez Clegg, the eponymous "Manchester Man", from the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the first ...
Summary Description 10-Mutability.pdf English: Iamus is the first studio album composed using Iamus, a computer cluster designed by the University of Malaga which creates contemporary classical music.
Book Second: School-time (continued) 1799–1805 "Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Third: Residence at Cambridge 1799–1805 "It was a dreary morning when the wheels" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Fourth: Summer Vacation 1799 ...
Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". [1] It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.