Michael Amos – författare

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1st, Falmouth University, course: English and Creative Writing, language: English, abstract: This essay will examine the relationship between mythology and modernity in relation to Yeats's poetry, and its role and importance within the Irish tradition. I will analyse in-depth the poems 'Easter 1916', 'Sailing to Byzantium' and 'Leda and the Swan', while paying close attention to the form, language and the argument Yeats is trying to make. Anthony Bradley states that Yeats also saw in Irish myth and legend the hidden and primitive religious energies that could be assimilated to Irish nationalism, and which were not available to modern churches, Catholic or Protestant . The tension between mythology and colonisation is apparent in his poetry, where a balance must be struck and maintained. Yet, while true history is key to Yeats, Daniel Gomes on Yeats explains that myth was beginning to be seen less as representative of crude racial typographies and instead began to underscore the archetypal themes and structural patterns found in myths, legends, and folklore across national traditions . I will use M. L. Rosenthal, The Modern Poet to analyse the ways in which Yeats intends to grasp and understand the modern mind; while also exploring in-depth his aversion to modernity in the work of Michael North. Rhythm being crucial to the task of crafting effective poetry, I will engage with the work of Michael Golston to further my argument on the importance of form and structure within Yeats poetry.

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2:1, Falmouth University, course: Millennium, language: English, abstract: This essay will explore Garcia Marquez' novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and the concerns it raises with literary histories and forms such as realism. I will be exploring the concerns aimed at literary histories which provide a version of reality that acts as a true representation while displaying only a version or subjective viewpoint of the world. First, this essay will place the text within the context of the New Novel in Latin America as a response to Post-Colonialism, and then as a magical realist novel which comes to questions forms of representation of reality. Amaryll Chanady in her work on the territorialisation of the imaginary in Latin America, makes a clear distinction between the fantastic and magical realism: the magical realist writer does not need to justify the mysterious nature of events, as the writer of fantastic stories has to. In fantastic literature the supernatural invades the world ruled by reason . In fact, it is its matter-of-fact narrative which describes in great detail the everyday lives of the people of Macondo, despite the interweaving of the fantastical that allows for the text to question the realist form. By analyzing Marquez distortion of time and space, in connection to Eva Aldea s essay on magical realism and Deleuze, I will argue that the text has the ability to display signs not as representations of reality, but as real in and of themselves. Through the analysis of the carnivalesque with David K. Danow and play and playfulness within the novel with Enrique A. Giordano, I will argue towards the text s ability to embrace both the realist and the fantastic forms fully, embracing both within the limits of each other. Finally, by exploring the character Melquiades I will argue that the narrative in the form of the manuscript, is a force which not only subvert the realist form but also transcends it. Eva Aldea argues that Thus One Hundred Years of Solitude takes us through a kind of apprenticeship of signs, from the illusory referentiality of realism, to the essential signs of art which reveal the structure of reality itself and therefore this essay will aim to analyze the novel s signs in an attempt to capture the concerns it raises in connection to literary histories and forms.

Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2:1, Falmouth University, course: Novel Writing, language: English, abstract: This essay explores the novel Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway and its uses of genre, form and characterisation to express concerns and meanings behind death and the modern mind. The genre as steampunk fills the novel full of wondrous inventions from a battle train called the Lovelace, to a gigantic submarine. By referencing articles and works focusing on the construction of the novel and the meanings modern fiction generates, I will argue towards Nick Harkaway s use of narration and time to develop a story which adapts reality. His use of characters is intriguing as they have a close relationship with the plot, inviting the reader to explore a universe where everything is a cog in a machine.