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Praxis II Major Authors And Works

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. A man is shipwrecked on an island - where he lives for more than 20 years - fending off cannibals and creating a pleasant life for himself






2. Wrote 'A Fisherman -' 'The Second Coming -' and 'Easter 1916;' Irish poet and dramatist; foremost figures of 20th century literature; British WWI poet






3. Wrote The Voice on the Radio






4. Wrote The Lion - the Witch - and the Wardrobe






5. Wrote The House on Mango Street






6. Wrote 'Self - Reliance;' Transcendentalist poet - essayist - speaker






7. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance






8. Wrote 'The Birth - Mark -' The Scarlet Letter; works are considered part of the Romantic movement (specifically dark romancism)






9. Wrote Sounder






10. Wrote The Canterbury Tales






11. Wrote 'She Walks in Beauty' and 'When We Two Parted;' British poet and leading figure in Romanticism






12. Wrote Doctor Faustus






13. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors






14. A group of English boys (Jack - Piggy - Ralph - Roger - Sam - Eric - and Simon) - marooned on an island - rapidly turn lawless and bloodthirsty






15. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula






16. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet






17. Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number - the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)






18. Wrote Walk Two Moons






19. Southern gothic novel; bildungsroman; narrator: Scout; serious issues dealing with rape and inequality






20. Bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school - a 16- year - old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC - where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown






21. A group of Chinese mothers and their American - born daughters struggle to communicate and understand each other; four families dipicted Woo - Jong - Hsu - and St. Clair






22. Book written by George Orwell - announced an insane world of dehumanization through terror in which the individual was systematically obliterated by an all - power elite; key phrases: Big Brother - doublethink - Newspeak - the Ministry of Peace...Tru






23. An impoverished young woman (Jane) struggles to maintain her autonomy in the face of oppression - prejudice - and love; Gothic novel - bildungsroman - social portest novel






24. Wrote Roll of Thunder - Hear my Cry






25. Wrote The Aeneid






26. heroic fantasy novel about a small group of British rabbits; Fiver - a young runt rabbit who is a seer - receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction






27. Wrote The Outsiders






28. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet






29. Wrote 'In Reference to her Children;' English - American writer - first notable American poet; first woman to be published in Colonial America






30. A great warrior - goes to Denmark on a successful mission to kill Grendel; he returns home to Geatland - where he becomes king and slays a dragon before dying; poem; alliterative verse - elegy - small scale heroic epic; author unknown; setting around






31. After two marriages to oppressive men - a woman (Janie Crawford) finds temporary happiness with a husband twelve years her junior; themes: the illusion of power - non - necessity of relationships - folkloric quality of religion






32. Wrote The Yearling






33. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988






34. Wrote Wuthering Heights






35. Wrote The Outsiders






36. Wrote The Chocolate War






37. Wrote Frankenstein; Romantic British novelist - short story writer - dramatist - essayist - biographer - travel writer






38. Wrote 'We Are Seven -' 'The Prelude -' and 'The World is Too Much With Us;' English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge; motifs: wanders vs wandering - memory - vision/sight - light - leech gatherer; bel






39. Maintains the bird metaphor throughout the poem's ninety - six lines - describing the various 'flights' of five of her children and her concerns about those remaining in the nest

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40. The portrait of a sinful young man ages while the young man depicted in the portrait remains youthful; English Gothic novel






41. NOT anti - society or anti - community; presupposes that the mind is initially the subject to an unhappy conformity; calls on individuals to value their own thoughts - opinions - experiences above those presented to them by other individuals - societ

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42. Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; 20th century African - American writer; folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance






43. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - editor of 'The North Star -' abolitionist - was self - educated slave






44. Wrote Julie of the Wolves






45. Wrote Ethan Frome






46. A self - made man (Gatsby) woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves






47. Wrote 'History of a Nun;' prolific dramatist of the Restoration (18th century) - one of the first English female writers






48. Wrote Alice In Wonderland






49. Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish playwright - poet - and author of numerous short stories and one novel






50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany