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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. 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






3. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






4. Wrote The Bell Jar; born during the great depression






5. Inspired by witch's prophecy - a man murders his way to the throne of Scotland - but his conscience plagues him and his fellow lords rise up against him; themes: unchecked ambition as a corrupting force - relationship between cruelty and masculinity






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






7. A naive young man (Henry Fleming) matures as a result of fighting in the Civil War






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






9. 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






10. Wrote 1984 - Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist totalitarianism






11. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer






12. Wrote Mrs. Dalloway - Night and Day - The Voyage Out - and Jacob's Room; English novelist and essayist; one of the foremost modernist literary figures of 20th century






13. Wrote The Voice on the Radio






14. Wrote The Giver - Number the Stars






15. Wrote Hatchet






16. Wrote The Pigman






17. Wrote The Yearling






18. Wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle






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






20. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author






21. The protagonist of the story is a boy named Sandy whose family must deal with a variety of struggles imposed upon them due to their race and class in society in addition to relating to one another






22. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears






23. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy






24. Wrote The House on Mango Street






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






26. Wrote Crime and Punishment; Russian writer - essayist - philosopher






27. Wrote Doctor Faustus






28. Wrote A Bridge to Terabithia






29. Wrote The Call of the Wild - Sea - Wolf - White Fang






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






31. Wrote The Weary Blues - The Ways of White Folks - and Not Without Laughter; American poet - novelist - playwright - short story writer - and columnist; early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissan






32. Wrote Julie of the Wolves






33. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






34. Wrote Hoot






35. Wrote 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle;' American author - essayist - biographer - historian






36. Wrote The Outsiders






37. 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






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






39. 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


40. Wrote Night






41. Wrote Island of Blue Dolphins


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






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






44. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye






45. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate;' Shakespearean couplet with ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme






46. Wrote Alice In Wonderland






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






48. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th






49. Wrote The Glory Field






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