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Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".
A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.
Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept. A guardian angel travels back to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. An unnamed man falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. Play - A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. [1]
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense .
978-1-59448-822-1. OCLC. 852399924. Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater, or simply Drama High, is a 2013 nonfiction book by The New York Times Magazine writer Michael Sokolove that follows a year in the life of the drama program of Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown ...
In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. [3][4] Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.