controversial works. Gore Vidal is an opinionated man with strong beliefs on many aspects of modern American culture. Gore Vidal is a man who likes to provoke controversy. The works of Gore Vidal revolves around three main themes: human behavior, politics, and homosexuality. These are Vidal's favorite subjects to write about because they are all something he deals with every day of his life. Readers of Gore Vidal should realize that he is out to shock the public with his beliefs, and he accomplishes
On Writing in America: The Politics, Criticism, and Fiction of William Dean Howells Upon hearing of an event which has become known as "The Haymarket Incident," a violent outbreak that involved strikers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company on May 4, 1886, William Dean Howells felt provoked to respond.1 Whatever personal motives this highly publicized incident sparked in Howells, who was successful novelist and influential critic of the literature and social issues of his time, the strike
narratives of Chamoiseau’s imagined characters. Upon initially reading the book, one may not exactly understand the ... ... middle of paper ... ...n and Reno’s French and West Indian helps bridge the gap between Texaco’s interplay of fact vs. fiction, and further validates the imaginative, historical narrative that Chamoiseau so desires. Good improvement over last two reviews. I like how you are beginning to move away from summaries and drawing connections between works. I would have still
The Discrimination of Sleep Dealer The film Sleep Dealer by Alex Rivera uses the discrimination against migrant workers to both critique and warn his audience of the effect of current day politics. Well written science fiction often juxtaposes the politics of the present with futuristic societies and technologies, to further engage the audience and add significance to their work. In Sleep Dealer, migrant workers no longer can cross the border due to the construction of an enormous wall, yet still
“explore how sex and gender play out in history, art, philosophy, music, language, and literature, as well as the ethics and politics of gender identity and equality in the Humanities” (TORCH 2014). I decided to focus on art and, in turn, on popular culture, as popular culture art forms such as film and television are vehicles through which particular ideas and attitudes, such as politics of gender identity and equality, are dispersed to mass audiences. My topic of research, therefore, is on Star Wars, as
for domination between American and Soviet minds. No longer was space travel confined to science fiction, but a reality that needed to be explored in order to maintain the grasp on victory in the Cold War. This paper will argue that although the domination for space acted as a metaphor for Cold War superiority, ultimately space colonization was the catalyst to American exploration in science fiction and Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) propaganda. As a result, when the Americans landed their astronauts
Vietnam War autobiography and fiction, [it does] record incidents in which Vietnamese civilians are beaten or killed and have their livestock and homes destroyed" (270). This book has an almost offhanded-like way of dealing with these My Lai-like atrocities. Why? What's going on here? Well, one thing that one must take into consideration is the author's aim. As quoted by Timothy J. Lomperis at a conference, O'Brien has said, "'For me, the purpose of writing fiction is to explore moral quandaries
It seems to be Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is the idea of natural selection through sociology and politics. It attempts to reform society through state intervention or other means. The poor were the “unfit” and should not be aided and wealth was a sign of success ("Social Darwinism”). In both stories we see a “government” type swoop in and try to
From catastrophic cyberpunk to futuristic space opera, science fiction texts remain perennial favourites with readers. Science fiction extends scientific principles in a fictional sense to form the plot while catering to society’s ever changing scientific interests. Early sci-fi employed slow-paced storylines and wishfully extrapolated every technological breakthrough. However, more recent texts have a stronger foundation in scientific theory, and serve as a critical mirror to the advances of humanity
Politics and Religion in the Herbert’s Dune Novels There are a variety of political and religious concepts throughout the Dune novels that varies so much through the novels which makes it a complex and cogitative science fiction series. The Dune novels are popular with many fans and partly this is due because of its political and religious structures. This essay will be focussing primarily on the first four Dune novels written by Frank Herbert. In the first novel, the Qizarate is composed
Samuel Dashiell Hammett, better known as Dashiell Hammett, is widely recognized as the father of hard-boiled detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett was born on May 27, 1894 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland; however, his family moved to Baltimore when he was seven years old. There, he attended Public School No. 72 in his elementary years. Although Mr. Hammett quit school at the age of thirteen to begin working, he studied at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute prior to this resignation. During his young
religion, and history. If not, there are countless other subjects and even more opinions on each subject. The choice is an important one. The things you learn while reading non-fiction could influence your life in ways you don’t expect. Literature has the power to sway opinions, votes, and even career paths. Non-fiction is often regarded as being boring by some of my peers, but I find that reading for the purpose of learning is often more entertaining than watching television or playing video games
News Article on Dune Novel On Its 50th Anniversary Dune is the famous science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It’s been 50 years since the novel was launched and is considered as one of the best science fiction novels in the history. The novel remains as the best-selling science fiction book till date. The novel is about the young Paul Atreides whose family relocate to Arrakis, a planet which is the only source of the spice melange in the universe. The course of humanity has been dealt very well
There are many sub-genres of detective fiction and hard-boiled fiction is one of them. What exactly is hard-boiled detective fiction? Hard-Boiled detective fiction is fiction that features tough, cynical, urban private eyes who expose corruption and frequently get injured in the course of their investigations (“Detective Fiction,” Literary). Hard-Boiled fiction is considered one of the more popular sub-genres of detective fiction; there have been numerous films and novels about urban detectives exposing
Positionality and Mobility in Political Poetry “Let us resolve to think of transcendental mobility—as a mobile. The poem as a mobile of words and signs, dangled over the crib of culture, as to stimulate the mind to imagine new combinations.” – Leonard Schwartz Here in the pacific, isolated on all sides, the islands are pebbles on the globe. Our only access to the world beyond is through technology in Zen mode: handpicked information through newspapers, television and the internet. The world
reliance on literary conventions such as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference. Ursula K. Le Guin was a figurehead of feminist science fiction. The feminist movement inspired Le Guin’s work which even has an impact on today’s modern society
Henry Rider Haggard’s piece titled “About Fiction” exemplifies the major concerns of writing in the 19th century, mainly the production of unsatisfactory literature due to the lack of realism. This evaluation will focus on his view, argument, major ideas and political engagement. Haggard use of language throughout is critical towards fiction written in styles that are not English Fiction, even referring to readers of sub-par literature as “like a diseased ostrich.”(pg173)Through using pictorial
Violence. In the science fiction realm, this word might conjure up images of Martian massacres, light saber standoffs, or robot regimes. While these scenarios certainly exist within many works of science fiction, however, the genre is not confined to such unbelievable and grotesque depictions of violence. Beyond its stereotypical guts and gore, the science fiction genre presents readers with unpredictable and unconventional—yet hauntingly believable—manifestations of violence: the mutilation of
suffrage. It broadened the fight, questioning sexuality, gender roles, reproductive rights, rights in the workplace, and the women’s place in the family. Women were also beginning to appear in a plethora of previously male dominated fields. From politics to authorship, women were breaking boundaries
works, risking their lives; she also praises the film’s avoidance of the tremendism predominant in fiction film of the period. However, its ideological commitments are hardly visible because of the close focus on the workers. I think that a critical reading of this documentary requires spectators to dislodge the film’s representation of working-class subjects from any connection to formal left-wing politics. When viewed from this perspective, the film is hardly an endorsement of the infrastructure project