The poem is dedicated to the battle of Alfred the Great, the first Anglo-Saxon king of Britain with the pagan Danes. Chesterton sees this event as an allegory of the confrontation between civilization and barbarism, faith and unbelief, life and death. Chesterton transforms the image of a white horse, an ancient drawing on the chalk hills of Oxfordshire, into a symbol of the European Christian tradition: this silhouette has survived to this day, because generation after generation has cleared its outlines, preventing it from overgrown with turf, - so our ideas about good and evil, duty ,...
Published in 1909, the famous book by Gertrude Stein marked the beginning of an era of bold experiments with literary form and language. The stories of three women from Bridgepoint are inspired by the ideas of modern artists. In the non-linear narrative of Good Anna, the reader will notice the influence of Cezanne, Stein’s friendship with Picasso inspired free syntax and open sexuality of the story of Melankte, the influence of Matisse is noticeable in The Quiet Lena. The books of Gertrude Stein are works not only of literature, but also of painting. Words, like paints, lie on a canvas, all...
The novel "Sports of the Gods" is dedicated to urban life of blacks in America. Their family was forced to leave the south, but life in the northern city was not what they imagined it was, and the family was falling apart....
At the beginning of the 20th century, works appeared in realistic US literature, which sharply critically portrayed the life of American society. The founder of this trend, whose representatives were called "mud rakers", was Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). In 1906, his novel “The Jungle” was published - about Chicago slaughterhouses. The novel was a success and made a lot of noise. Jack London called it "Uncle Tom's Cabin of Industrial Slavery." The fascinating plot did not hide or embellish the socially revealing character of the novel....
"Heartbreak House" is one of the Show's "visiting cards", the witty and subtle tragicomedy of the morals of British secular society after the First World War, to which the author was inspired, in his own words, by Chekhov's dramaturgy. The action takes place on a September evening in an English provincial house that resembles a ship in shape, for its owner, a gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. His daughter Hesion invited Ellie, her father and Mengen, to upset her marriage, because she does not want the girl to marry an unloved man because of the...
The work of Tom Taylor dates back to 1850-1870, to the time when, after the suppression of the Chartist movement, to replace the socio-political novel of 30-50. and poetry of social pity came, on the one hand, aesthetics, and on the other - sensational literature, reactionary in its class ideology. This literature is characterized by a sharp plot. Taylor's melodramas are extremely typical in this respect. Rich in acute situations, dynamic and spectacular, they did not leave the scene until the last years of the 19th century....
Edith Wharton - author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of short stories - the first woman writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Such works of Wharton, such as "Resident of Joy," "Ethan From," "The Age of Innocence," "The Fruit of the Tree," were included in the golden fund of American literature. The novel "The Age of Innocence" formed the basis of the film of the same name by Martin Scorsese, which received recognition and popularity. The confrontation of the individual and society, the clash of generally accepted moral principles and sincere deep feelings inevitably lead...
Being the son of a famous romantic actor, Eugene O’Neill was well acquainted with the American theater of the late XIX - early XX centuries and passionately hated him. I hated melodramas written in bad language, did not recognize the acting style and the lack of ensemble, full of cliches, and rejected the naturalness of scenography. Speaking as an innovative playwright, he sought to create a completely different type of theater. O’Neill's early plays are a riot against an established commercial theater tradition. In O’Neill’s early plays, the main characters were social types of the lower...
The action takes place in a coastal city. The play tells the story of Mrs. Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Philip and Gloria, who had just returned to England after eighteen years in Madeira. Children have no idea who their father is, and through a series of comedic mistakes, they ultimately invite him to a family dinner....
In My Anthony, Will Keser addresses the difficult life of immigrants and American immigrants in the vast expanses of the prairie. In fact, this is the prairie anthem, on which the themes of growing up heroes, friendship, adaptation in an alien environment, the role of women in society (in particular women from the poor) are superimposed. The novel is permeated with a feeling of longing - for the past, for the abandoned homeland, for unfulfilled expectations and the golden years of childhood....
The late 1820s and early 1830s, when Balzac entered the literature, was the period of the greatest flowering of the work of romanticism in French literature. The great novel in European literature before the arrival of Balzac had two main genres: a novel of personality - an adventurous hero or a self-deepening, lonely hero and a historical novel. Balzac departs from both the novel of personality and the historical novel of Walter Scott. He seeks to show the "individualized type", to give a picture of the whole society, the whole people, the whole of France. Not a legend about the past, but a...
Israel Zangville, an English writer and public figure who traveled extensively throughout the United States, in 1907 put the following words into the mouth of the protagonist of his play: “... America is the greatest melting pot created by God in which all the peoples of Europe are mixed and transformed into a single people!". The word "boiler" carries a figurative and direct meaning. Immigrants from England, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, slaves from Africa and local Indians created something new and general from their national cuisines and gastronomic preferences....
Black Jack is a Western adventure story told by master brand teller Max Brand about the son of a murdered bad guy who is raised as a good gentleman. A bet was made about his fate: will genetics or the environment win? Will he become bad, like his father, or will become an outstanding person?...
Blackfoots are Native American people in the USA and Canada, named after the color of moccasins. The name comes from the Siksikans "black", and the okkati "leg, foot." According to legend, the black-footed led the migration of the western Algonquins from the valley of the Red River to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. At the end of the 18th century, they reached the South Saskatchewan River, in the 19th century they wandered from the North Saskatchewan River to the headwaters of Missouri. Among blackfoots, cults of patron spirits, “sacred bundles”, and the demiurge Napi (“Old Man”) are common....
After Sunday service, John Orphan meets two villagers. They claim to inspect homes after a night flood. The guy suspects that men are looking for the ghost of Blackbeard and a precious diamond. He had previously heard sounds from the crypt where members of the Mohun family are buried. Water washed a funnel at the burial site. A guy descends through an educated passage and enters a network of caves. He finds an old medallion in which a secret code is hidden......
