Essays on Rewrite

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

A question is often heard to be asked by the people that what the conception of good writing is. Before anyone can understand what the concept behind good writing is, it is first important to understand that what basically writing is. Writing is done as a response or reaction to someone or something. Although writing is seen as an isolated act, just a pen, paper, and a writer, it is a social act in which a writer is responding to the people around the world. Writing takes a place in a prescribed context. A writer is always writing to ...

Introduction

Literary appropriation may be defined as the legal beneficial and creative art of borrowing from literary work of another author to come up with a completely different work from the original (Adeney 2013). It is simply the unoriginal, imitative or different perspective of the original work as seen and created by the ‘new’ author. It is different from plagiarism, which is essentially copying, direct lifting of an author’s words without acknowledgement, stealing of another’s work or pirating. These borrowed ideas are geared towards achieving certain literary objectives such as to criticize, ridicule, create new literary work, prepare ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...