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This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature which focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. [ 1 ]
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]
Prohibited by Nazi Germany for featuring Jewish characters. [123] Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens: 1839 Novel Prohibited by Nazi Germany for featuring Jewish characters. [123] The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: 1848 Political Manifesto Prohibited by several countries, including Nazi Germany. [124] Works Stefan Zweig: 1900–1933
Further, characters may be interpreted as anarchists by second parties involved in their development. The inclusion of these characters may be controversial, but is necessary for purposes of objectivity. This provides a means by which social attitudes regarding anarchism and anarchists may be studied and compared to those of other eras and ...
One of Rihanna's first hits, "S.O.S." spent three weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 in 2006. But the catchy tune was originally written for singer-actress Christina Milian, who rejected the ...
The protagonist in these works is an indecisive central character who drifts through his life and is marked by boredom, angst, and alienation. [ 25 ] The antihero entered American literature in the 1950s and up to the mid-1960s as an alienated figure, unable to communicate. [ 26 ]
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.