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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com But if, instead of attacking the material parts of your character, your husband should merely presume to advert to your manners, to some slight personal habit which might be made more agreeable to him; prove, in the first place, that it is his fault that it is not agreeable to him; ask which is most to blame, "she who ceases to please, or he who ceases to be pleased." His eyes are changed, or opened. But it may perhaps have been a matter almost of indifference to him, till you undertook its defence; then make it of consequence by rising in eagerness, in proportion to the insignificance of your object; if he can draw consequences, this will be an excellent lesson: if you are so tender of blame in the veriest trifle, how unimpeachable must you be in matters of importance! As to personal habits, begin by denying that you have any; or in the paradoxical language of Rousseau, declare that the only habit you have is the habit of having none; as all personal habits if they have been of any long standing must have become involuntary, the unconscious culprit may assert her innocence without hazarding her veracity.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Although best known for her fiction (in particular the novels Castle Rackrent and Belinda), Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth was also an important essayist. Indeed, her well-crafted essays "explain the moral instruction that is the basis for her novels and stories" (Encyclopedia of the Essay, 1997).
Literature professor Audrey Bilger has characterized Edgeworth's "Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" as an "anti-conduct book": Its comic force derives from the iconoclasm of its mock-heroic treatment of bad manners. By pushing bad behavior to extremes, her satire advocates humane standards of decency and fairness in the same way that Swift's "A Modest Proposal" does when he proposes baby-eating as a satirical argument for better treatment of the Irish poor. (Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Wayne State University Press, 1998)Written in 1787, "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" was published in 1795 in the same volume as Letters for Literary Ladies.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Contemporary film director Quentin Tarantino once said thatchronological order "isn't the only way you can tell a story"--a point that English novelist George Eliot made over a century earlier in this short essay on narrative structure. "Story-Telling" originally appeared in the essay collection Leaves from a Notebook (1884).
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com It happened to me many years ago to endanger the course of my humble career at sea simply by writing the letter W instead of the letter E at the bottom of a page full of figures. It was an examination and I ought to have been plucked mercilessly. But in consideration, I believe, of all my other answers being correct, I was handed that azimuth paper back by the examiner's assistant, with the calm remark, "You have fourteen minutes yet." I looked at the face of the clock; it was round like the moon, white as a ghost, unfeeling, idiotic. I sat down under it with the conviction of the crushing materiality of time, and calling in my mind the assistant examiner a sarcastic brute. For no man could have gone over all those figures in fourteen minutes. I
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com In this essay, originally published in 1922, novelist and master mariner Joseph Conrad (author of Nostromo, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness) considers the merits of a prose style significantly different from his own. As the title of the periodical suggests, Notices to Mariners provided (and in fact continues to provide) essential information on matters related to navigational safety. It's worth keeping in mind that Conrad, who was born of Polish parents in the Ukraine, did not learn English until he was 20 years old.
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Whereupon the assassin began to gesture extravagantly and take oath by strange gods. He frantically placed himself at the mercy of remarkable fates if his tale were not true. "Yes, he did! I cross m' heart thousan' times!" he protested, and at the moment his eyes were large with amazement, his mouth wrinkled in unnatural glee. "Yessir! A nightshirt! A hully white nightshirt!"
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A blanket he handled gingerly, drawing it over part of the coat. The cot was covered with leather, and as cold as melting snow. The youth was obliged to shiver for some time on this affair, which was like a slab. Presently, however, his chill gave him peace, and during this period of leisure from it he turned his head to stare at his friend the assassin, whom he could dimly discern where he lay sprawled on a cot in the abandon of a man filled with drink. He was snoring with incredible vigor. His wet hair and beard dimly glistened, and his inflamed nose shone with subdued luster like a red light in a fog.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com "Have some more, gents?" he inquired of the two sorry figures before him. The little yellow man accepted with a swift gesture, but the youth shook his head and went out, following a man whose wondrous seediness promised that he would have a knowledge of cheap lodging houses.
On the sidewalk he accosted the seedy man. "Say, do you know a cheap place to sleep?"
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Best known today for his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) along with a number of poems and short stories, Stephen Crane also endures as a significant figure in the development of modern literary journalism(also known as creative nonfiction). His urban reportage, travel writing, and war correspondence often blur the distinction between nonfictionwriting and fiction.
Though usually categorized as a short story, "Experiment in Misery" first appeared as an article in the New York Press (April 22, 1894). The "experiment" referred to in the title was made explicit in a preface that Crane deleted when he revised the work for book publication in 1896: Two men stood regarding a tramp. "I wonder how he feels," said one, reflectively. "I suppose he is homeless, friendless, and has, at the most, only a few cents in his pocket. And if this is so, I wonder how he feels." The other being the elder, spoke with an air of authoritative wisdom. "You can tell nothing of it unless you are in that condition yourself. It is idle to speculate about it from this distance." "I suppose so," said the younger man, and then he added as from an inspiration: "I think I'll try it. Rags and tatters, you know, a couple of dimes, and hungry, too, if possible. Perhaps I could discover his point of view or something near it." "Well, you might," said the other, and from those words begins this veracious narrative of an experiment in misery. The youth went to the studio of an artist friend, who, from his store, rigged him out in an aged suit and a brown derby hat that had been made long years before. And then the youth went forth to try to eat as the tramp may eat, and sleep as the wanderers sleep.Similarly, the earlier version of Crane's narrative ended with this brief coda:"Well," said the friend, "did you discover his point of view?" "I don't know that I did," replied the young man; "but at any rate I think mine own has undergone a considerable alteration."In both spirit and method, Crane's story (regardless if it's approached as fiction or journalism) stands as a notable forerunner of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). |
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