World Literature importanceFebruary 24, 2017 – 01:02 am
Literature is the foundation of life. It places an emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to tales of the ever-popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, these words come alive in the imagination of the mind, and its ability to comprehend the complexity or simplicity of the text. Literature enables people to see through the lenses of others, and sometimes even inanimate objects; therefore, it becomes a looking glass into…
World Literature to the 16th centuryFebruary 4, 2017 – 12:55 am
Author: I. Abbasi A. •12:12 PM Literary works in sixteenth-century England were rarely if ever created in isolation from other currents in the social and cultural world. The boundaries that divided the texts we now regard as aesthetic from other texts were porous and constantly shifting. It is perfectly acceptable, of course, for the purposes of reading to redraw these boundaries more decisively, treating Renaissance texts as if they were islands…
World Literature HomeschoolersJanuary 31, 2017 – 12:52 am
Want to teach your child literature? Then you have a problem! On one side you have a number of well-written books without God and without hope in the world. On the other, you can find cartloads of evangelical twaddle ( The Searing Story of Joseph and Potiphar s Wife! New Heights in Biblical Romance! ) and wholesome sugarcoated junk (Pollyanna Meets the Bobbsey Twins). Today parents who care about literature often feel as though they are being forced…
World Literature Study GuidesJanuary 27, 2017 – 12:51 am
Practical Homeschooling Magazine Reader Awards First Place in Geography, 2014 Second Place in History, 2014 Third Place in Literature, 2014 Third Place in Unit Studies, 2014 Our Newly Revised and Expanded Edition! This Award-Winning Guide has been completely Revised & Expanded! Now in full-color it features new comprehension questions, vocabulary, activities, answer key, and great website links. One of our most popular studies just got better!…
World Literature short storiesJanuary 11, 2017 – 12:17 am
Had she not passed away at the too-young age of 39 from lupus, today would have been legendary Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor’s 87th birthday. To celebrate her legacy of pitch-perfect short stories and razor-sharp wit, we’ve collected a few of our favorite works from some of the best short story writers of all time, all available online — though we can’t promise reading them that way will be as satisfying as hefting a huge tome of collected…
World Literature HistoryJanuary 7, 2017 – 12:11 am
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The challenges entailed in writing a global literary history are threefold, involving problems of definition, design, and purpose. Can the field of inquiry be defined in such a way that a meaningful history can be conceived at all? If so, could an effective organization and a manageable plan of work be devised to give concrete shape to a project of global scope? Finally, and hardest of…
World Literature papersJanuary 3, 2017 – 12:01 am
Inspired by the author’s family history, The Rice Paper Diaries recounts the experiences of Elsa, a Welsh woman in 1930s Hong Kong at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It follows her through the early years of her marriage to a Welsh officer, Tom, their fraught relationship unraveling against the background of war and internment. Following the invasion of the Japanese army, the young family is transported to Stanley, a camp for civilians on an…
