enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Lesson (short story) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesson_(short_story)

    The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community.

  3. Sylvia Huot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Huot

    Sylvia Huot is a professor of Medieval French Literature at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Pembroke College. [1] She is the author of several internationally renowned books on Medieval French Literature and the leading expert on the manuscripts of Roman de la Rose , having published extensively on its iconography.

  4. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_movements

    The "new novelists", appeared in French literature in the 1950s, generally rejected the traditional use of chronology, plot and character in novel, as well as the omniscient narrator, and focused on the vision of thins [113] [114] Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, Robert Pinget, Marguerite Duras, Jean Ricardou

  5. Up the Down Staircase - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Down_Staircase

    Sylvia Barrett, an idealistic English teacher at an inner city high school, hopes to nurture her students' interest in classic literature (especially Chaucer and writing). ). She quickly becomes discouraged during her first year of teaching, frustrated by bureaucracy, the indifference of her students, and the incompetence of many of her colleag

  6. Sylvia (play) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_(play)

    Greg meets a strange character at the dog run, who gives Greg tips on how to manage Sylvia and his predicament involving Kate. Greg has Sylvia spayed. Sylvia is angry and in pain, but she still loves him completely. Kate's friend pays a visit and is repulsed by Greg and Sylvia. Greg, Kate, and Sylvia sing "Every Time We Say Goodbye".

  7. Wikipedia:Vital articles/List of all articles - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/...

    · The Nutcracker · The Odd Couple (play) · The Office (American TV series) · The Old Man and the Sea · The Onion · The Open Championship · The Open Society and Its Enemies · The Oprah Winfrey Show · The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) · The Origins of Totalitarianism · The Passion of Joan of Arc · The Peacock Room · The Pearl Island ...

  8. Moods (book) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moods_(book)

    Moods is the first novel published by Louisa May Alcott in 1864. She disliked the final result after the editing process and published a revised version in 1882. The novel depicts the life of young Sylvia Yule as she navigates growing from a girl to a woman and seeking true friendship.

  9. Tales from the Planet Sylvia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Planet_Sylvia

    Tales from the Planet Sylvia is a 1990 collection of comic strips by the American cartoonist Nicole Hollander from her syndicated comic strip Sylvia. The strips are non-continuous with one another, as is usual for Sylvia , and they feature the standard content of Sylvia comics, such as cats, gender politics, and the afterlife.