In the next year, Newton received his Master of Arts degree and became a senior fellow. His studies had impressed the Lucasian professor Isaac Barrow who resigned his chair, and was instrumental in securing Newton’s election as his successor. Newton was elected Lucasian professor on 29 October 1670. In 1672, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Shortly after this, he communicated his first public paper, a brilliant but no less controversial study on the nature of color.
The article “Zeopod 10: His Dark Materials– Blake and Pullman” written by Jason Whittaker, an author of several books on the subject of Blake, concludes that Pullman 's interest in Blake started long before his writings reflected his work and was even the President of the Blake Society in 2004 (2). It is also mentioned that he has extensively written about the Romantic poet (Whitaker 2). Pullman’s trilogy composed of Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in the United States, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass was published between 1995 and 2000. His critically acclaimed The Amber Spyglass was awarded the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 2002 while The Golden Compass was made into a movie in 2007 (Whittaker 1). The most evidence of Blake’s influence is shown in the His Dark Materials trilogy.
Orwell also was taught by dystopian novelist, Aldous Huxley, from whom Orwell could have adopted his dystopian writing style. After graduating in 1921, Orwell discovered his natural calling for writing. In 1932, Orwell hired his first publisher, Victor Gollancz, who issued him his pen name, George Orwell. As years passed, Orwell found himself drawn to the conflict of the Spanish Civil War. Unfortunately, an injury in the neck and the persecution of Republicans in Spain caused Orwell and his wife, Eileen, to flee the
“The Dreadful Acts” Book Review on “After the First Death by Robert Cormier” I. Introduction Robert Edmund Cormier, born on 1925 in Massachusetts, United States, was a renowned columnist, reporter, and author. He was known for his ability to entice readers through his negative ideas of writing turn out events or in-short he is a pessimistic writer of a story. His famous writings are “I Am the Cheese”, “We All Fall Down”, “The Chocolate War” and of course “After the First Death”. The book “After the First Death” was published in the year 1979 by an American book publishing company called Pantheon Books.
He wrote in his 2012 memoir that his father adopted the name Rushdie in honour of Averroes. Salman Rushdie was educated at Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, Rugby School in Warwickshire, and King’s College, University of Cambridge, where he read history. He is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children 1981, won the Booker prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent.
1. Introducing the poet Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was one of the foremost English classical scholar and poet. He was most renowned for . He was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and then at Cambridge as he had built his reputation by publishing as a scholar. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are considered by many to be his magnum opus.
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential writers in the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style” (Nobel Prize website, The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954). On July twenty-first, 1899, Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. The second of six children of Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. In Hemingway’s early years, he left the school newspaper business and attempted to join the Army during WWI.
In the twenties, it appears in the literary life of the United States some of the most renowned writers in fiction, drama and poetry. These writers were known as the “Lost Generation”, a generation whose name rises up as a consequence of leaving their homeland and settle a new life in Europe, and due to the attitude they assumed against wealth, opulence and materialism of the society, after the World War I and until the crack of 29. Among them are John Dos Passos,William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a novel written in 1925 by the American author, Scott Fitzgerald, who is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. The novel is set in United States in the twenties.
The motivation behind this article is to study why Diego Velazquez's composition "Las Meninas" may be gauge an appearance of the convention of "discriminating reflection" that coated with popular logic as specified by Michel physicist in "The Order of Things." French shrewdly and historiographer Michel physicist was one among the boss prestigious individuals figures of the twentieth hundred in European and Yankee mental circlet. He spent the majority of his excercise holding as academician of the History of Systems of Thought in activity Delaware France, however instructing at University of CA at Berkeley for a year and gift parasite addresses. He's prominent for his examination into such regions as physiologic trait, anger, rule, imprisonment
Abstract The novels of Arum Joshi, which are taken up for study in paper deal with a different set of problems The Foreigner presents to us a hero who has every reason to feel rootless born as he was to an English mother and an Indian father, brought up by an uncle in Nairobi and then moving to live in the UK and in the USA arriving in India to Bud his roots. In the West, especially in Europe, inquiries into the nature of the self have for the last few centuries been characterized by ,the postulation of dichotomies, between a private self and a public self for example, or between the individual self on the one hand and society on the other. In this, by means of an examination of certain key authors/works and passages in European literature, discusses the shifts that took place in the moral