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Mercifully, these are not marginalized texts or authors, so you can shmoop the hell out of them. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins  (notes) A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson  (shmoop) A Child Said, What is the Grass by Walt Whitman  (notes) The Coffee House of Surat By Leo Tolstoy  (notes) The Storyteller by Saki  (gradesaver) The False Gems by Guy de Maupassant  (stereotype)   (prostitute?)   (summary) The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin  (shmoop) Of Wisdom for a Man's Self  (writetoscore) Professions for Women: Virginia Woolf  (the Angel in the House)   (paperdue) Yes, Your Honesty by George and Helen Papashvily (cuenglias) Purpose by T. P. Kailasan  (cuenglias) Short story writing Report writing

"An attempt at examining religion and how one's upbringing can mould one's religious perceptions. The debate in the coffee house showcases, in many ways, Man's inability to agree with others. But it ends on the idea that Good is omnipresent and that indeed there is a unity in Man, even in the hearts and minds of non believers and people of different religious backgrounds." Some heavy H.Ed. is happening here. Anyway, here's all the religious beliefs portrayed, in order: Persian theologian read too much about God and ceased to believe in His existence African slave carried an idol of wood of the fetish tree; the people of his country worship the fetish tree; he believes the God has guarded him from the day of his birth Brahmin says that's foolish since Brahma the creator is the only God, and has protected his true priests, the Brahmins, who know the true God, and none but they Jew says "...none does He protect but His chosen people, the Israelit...

desire to emphasize difference between art and propaganda a writer's social class and its prevailing ideology (outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances etc) have a major bearing on what is written by him as a member of that class w.r.t. content, obviously, but also form deals with history in a generalized way - speaks of conflict within classes and clashes of large historical forces, but rarely discusses the detail of a specific historical situation or relates it closely to the interpretation of a particular historical text Leninist Marxist criticism: 1930s - reaction throughout Soviet society; State began to exert direct control over literature and he arts as well as everything else influenced by Lenin's argument that "Literature must become Party literature ... Literature must become part of the organized, methodical, and unified labors of the social democratic party> Soviet Writers' Congress (1934) outlawed liberal views; new Len...