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Almost all of her works are set in South america and reflects the themes of misfits and spiritual isolations of the south.... The sufferings acted as fuel to her imagination and together with the association of prominent writers of the time (such as Eudora Welty, Louis Untermeyer, Newton Arvin and Katherine Anne Porter) made her compose highly creative works.... Carson's first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) had a sensational response from the critics and readers alike and established her as one of the premier prose writers of the country....
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Miller had lived a most fascinating life filled with anecdotes and controversies up to the moment of his death at the rightful age of 89 in 2005(Biography.... The theme of the narrative bears resemblance in that of the authors own and for the search of the dream we all share....
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looms, the narrative versions f Lewis and Clark have piled up (though they were slow to start - the first, by Biddle, did not appear until 1814), James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking series stands mythologizing them yet, especially in its third volume, The Prairie (1827).... Each f us, Canadians and United States people, living within a national myth borne f exceptionalism, seek to assert our country's historical narrative - especially the narrative f West: expansion - "Westward the Course f Empire Takes Its Way" or, in Canada, the Laurentian thesis propounded to the Canadian Pacific Railway (completed in 1885): Pierre Berton's "The National dream" (or Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy) (Kaye)....
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Thompson grew up in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood.... His father's death left the three boys to be brought up by their mother.... hellip; In addition Tom Wolfe, William Bouroughs and a list of other writers credited in the new journalism category are discussed....
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Aside from the outright difference in the age of their writers and the type of write-ups and contents, there is more to be said between these two publications.... Publications may come in many forms and purposes.... Two published journals, The Beat Within and Mother Jones are not any different....
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This autobiography is written as a tributary of consciousness as well as based on the impulsive road trips of Kerouac along with his friends across mid-century america.... It is often thought of as an important work of the postwar… Jack Kerouac came up with the phrase “Beat generation” and he was well known both positively as well as negatively as a “beatnik” writer for the majority of his short but productive career.... The novel begins with Dean and Sal Paradise (Kerouac) meeting in New York City and progresses through four mostly fast-paced trips, back and forth amid New York and California, up and down the Eastern Seaboard, along the Gulf Coast, and downs into Mexico, with notable stopovers in Denver and New Orleans, the latter to visit Old Bull Lee (William 3)....
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Many writers imitated his writing style of spare dialog, vivid characterizations, a preference for understatement, and wise use of simple prose that won for him the much-coveted Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.... It is in literature that people can find the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of all the previous generations and in this regard literature serves both as a lesson for life and also entertainment....
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It should be mentioned, that since then it has seen a mushrooming growth in popularity in North america, Europe, and Australia.... This paper "Drift Racing – Past, Present, and Future" focuses on the fact that skidding and sliding around a race track in a car may not be everyone's idea of fun but it forms the backbone of a huge sunrise industry....
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