“A simple traditional song or poem for children” (Oxford Dictionaries)
The Difficulty of Defining Nursery Rhymes
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon
Nursery Rhymes and (cynical) jokes
– rebellion against authority
- releasing taboos in polite society
novel The Dharma Bums. As the large majority of people in the Beat movement had urban backgrounds, writers like Allen Ginsberg and Kerouac found Snyder, with his backcountry and manual-labor experience and interest in things rural, a refreshing and almost exotic individual. Lawrence Ferlinghetti later referred to Snyder as the Thoreau of the Beat Generation.
That same year, after Snyder met with
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen - (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
Romantic fiction
Landed gentry
Realism – biting irony & social commentary
Constant support from family
Epistolary novel
18th century ~ 19th century
Dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing & economic security
Austen’s works - Sense and Sensibility
1. Sense and Sensib
novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fishermans journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and h
A Clockwork Orange
Based on the novel by Anthony Burgess
Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick
Produced by Stanley Kubrick
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Cast List:
Malcolm McDowell Alex
Patrick Magee Mr. Alexander
Michael Bates Chief Guard
Warren Clarke Dim
John Clive Stage Actor
Carl Duering Dr. Brodsky
Paul Farrell Tramp
Clive Francis Lodger
Michael Gover Prison Governor
Miriam Karlin Catlady
James Marc