When the writers of the early Harlem Renaissance read cane in 1923, in the words of Arna Bontemps, they "went quietly mad." No prior literary description of the Afro-American experience had reached its level of artistic achievement. Jean T...

Writer, minister, critic, professor, outdoorsman--Henry Van Dyke was a man of multiple talents and great energy. As a literary critic he supported the basic tenets of the Genteel Tradition well into the twentieth century, castigating the m...

Stem cell controversy is the ethical debate centered around research involving the creation, usage and destruction of human embryonic stem cells. Some opponents of the research argue that this practice is a slippery slope to reproductive cl...

An energy crisis is any great bottleneck (or price rise) in the supply of energy resources to an economy. It usually refers to the shortage of oil and additionally to electricity or other natural resources. For the consumer, the price of ga...

Imagine raises the question how much further John can progress with the vocabulary of concepts and feelings laid down on John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band. POB's importance lay not in the fact that it is the culmination of certain tensions whi...

Although Walter Dean Myers has published articles and short stories in the Liberator, Black World, and Black Arts South , his primary achievement is the juvenile books in which he attempts to touch the lives of black children. In 1969 Myer...

"The Clerk's Tale" is the first tale of Group E in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is followed by the Merchant's Tale. The Clerk of Oxenford (modern Oxford) is a student of what would nowadays be considered philosophy or theolog...

Music Technology is a term that refers to all forms of technology involved with the musical arts, in particular the use of electronic devices and computer software to facilitate playback, recording, composition, storage, and performance. Ta...

Australian writer Tim Winton has won critical acclaim for novels featuring richly evoked settings and roundly drawn characters that embark on journeys of self-discovery. An avowed Christian, Winton also incorporates religious themes and im...

In art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, s...

Dai Sijie (Chinese: 戴思杰, b. 1954) is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry....

The aim of the prison abolition movement is to eliminate prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and prisoner of war camps by alternatives which they argue are more useful and more humane. Prison abolitionists present a broad critiqu...

“After World War II, leaders of both East and West had divided the world into opposing camps, and both sides accused the other of having designs on the world.” For forty-three years, although no war between the superpowers of ...

T. S. Eliot is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor/publisher. In 1910-1911, while still a student, he wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and other poems whic...

But we that have but span-long life, The thicker must lay on the pleasure; And since time will not stay, We'll add night to the day, Thus, thus we'll fill the measure. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ...

W. H. Auden was a major English poet, probably the most important English-speaking poet born in the twentieth century. Noted especially for native lyrical gifts and highly developed technical expertise, he also displayed wide reading and a...