HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hyperbole, E. B. White, Animal Stories
4 Apr 2016
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Author e. b white (elwyn brooks white) 1899 - 1985: american, graduate of cornell university in 1921, sportswriter for the new york times, late 1930s began writing children"s fiction, major publications and achievements. Religious people talk about religious ethics (are we allowed to do that in our religion?) and scientists talk about moral ethics (will it be morally ethical to experiment on fetuses?). Norms are ideas and values that the culture has described as good for everyone. What is normal": pastoral a highly conventional mode of writing that celebrates the innocent life of shepherds and shepherdesses in poems, plays, and prose romances. Beast fable: the commonest type of fable, in which animals and birds speak and behave like human beings in short tale usually illustrating some moral point . Fable: a brief tale in verse or prose that conveys a moral lesson, usually by giving human speech and manners to animals and inanimate things.
