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ISBN. 978-0-415-28019-8. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures is a 1989 non-fiction book on postcolonialism, penned by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. [ 1] The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of postcolonial texts and their relationship with bigger ...
Persecution and the Art of Writing, published in 1952 by the Free Press, is a book of collected articles written by Leo Strauss. [1] The book contains five previously published essays, many of which were significantly altered by Strauss from their original publication: The general theme of the book is the relationship between politics and ...
Preceded by. Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and ...
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision. " When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, " originally published in College English in the fall of 1972, [1] is an essay by American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer Adrienne Rich (1929–2012). It discusses several concepts needed by women writers to enable them to overcome the conditioning of a ...
Charles Bazerman (born 1945) is an American educator and scholar. He was born and raised in New York. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field, as evidenced by the collection of essays written by international scholars in Writing as A Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman. [1]
Aesthetic enthusiasm - Orwell explains that the present in writing is the desire to make one's writing look and sound good, having "pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story." He says that this motive is "very feeble in a lot of writers" but still present in all works of writing.
v. t. e. A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not ...
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir by American author Stephen King that describes his experiences as a writer and his advice for aspiring writers. Originally published in 2000 by Charles Scribner's Sons, it was King's first book after he was involved in a car accident a year earlier.