Literature can be used as a tool to tell history. Embedded in poems and short stories are the issues happening back when the time it was created. The poem Mulatto by Langston Hughes and the short story The Sheriff’s Children by Charles Chestnutt both tell something about the American history. Set during the time of …
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Hoitsu, an aristocrat by birth, studied different styles of paintings. He first followed the Kano school of art and later on turned to the Rinpa school. The name ‘Rinpa’ meaning ‘rin school’ was named on Ogata Korin, (1658-1716), one of the greatest and the most influential artists of this school. A group of artists, whose …
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Virginia Woolf’s novel entitled “Mrs. Dalloway” is a story of a woman who has simple goals and purpose in life. Clarissa, the main character in the story wants to have a party. For her, parties are her gifts to the world. She has a good husband named Richard but as what Clarissa feels towards him; …
William Faulkner is most famous for bringing such complicated situations to his characters. In fact, it is only Faulkner who has the ability to put the gory and the eerie to such heights of beauty that people will love it and consider it a classic. Absalom! Absalom! is such example. The novel is rather unusual …
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