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Finding A New Voice: The Oregon Writing Community Between The World Wars, Karen Stoner Reyes
Finding A New Voice: The Oregon Writing Community Between The World Wars, Karen Stoner Reyes
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The period of 1919 to 1939 was a significant one for the development of the literature of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The literary work produced in the region prior to the first world war was greatly influenced by the "Genteel tradition" of the late nineteenth century. By 1939, however, the literature of Oregon and the region had emerged from the outdated literary standards of the pre-war period and had found a new, realistic, natural voice, strongly regional in nature and rooted in the modern American tradition.
This change came about in large part through the efforts of a small …
Shakespeare's Henry V And The Alexandrian Allusion, Winona Howe
Shakespeare's Henry V And The Alexandrian Allusion, Winona Howe
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The character of Henry V (in Shakespeare's play of the same name) has been a matter of debate among critics, some of whom accept the historical view of Henry as an extraordinarily able and heroic king, while others view him as an extremely unattractive personality, a spiritual hypocrite, and a conqueror of unmitigated cruelty. Cited as supporting evidence for this unflattering portrait is a passage in Act IV which consists of a conversation between two characters, Gower and Fluellen. In this conversation, Henry is compared to Alexander the Great or "the Pig" as Fluellen terms him.
Two critics, Ronald Berman …