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Year Award Category Result Ref. 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction — Won [9] 2017 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature: Adult Fiction Won [10] Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award: Fiction Shortlisted [11] National Book Award: Fiction: Shortlisted [12] 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize — Longlisted [13]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The South Matadero, Buenos Aires (water colour by Emeric Essex Vidal, 1820).The story was set there about 20 years later. The Slaughter Yard (Spanish El matadero, title often imprecisely translated as The Slaughterhouse, is a short story by the Argentine poet and essayist Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851).
In 1929 Leavis married one of his students, Queenie Roth, [6] and this union resulted in a collaboration that yielded many critical works. 1932 was an annus mirabilis for them, when Leavis published New Bearings in English Poetry, his wife published Fiction and the Reading Public, and the quarterly periodical Scrutiny was founded. [15]
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton (c. 1463 – 21 June 1529) was an English poet and tutor to King Henry VIII of England.Writing in a period of linguistic transition between Middle English and Early Modern English, Skelton is one of the most important poets of the early Tudor period.
The question of whether The Canterbury Tales is a finished work has not been answered to date. There are 84 manuscripts and four incunabula (printed before 1500) editions [4] of the work, which is more than for any other vernacular English literary text with the exception of Prick of Conscience.
In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time (and which her husband would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later), stating, "I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say ...
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.