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Choose one image from early “realistic” methods of artistic representation and one image from later “art of alteration” and analyze what kind of truth does each work try to achieve?

The Truth of Art Aaron Douglas’s style “is the result of a deep-rooted belief that in trying to imitate the actual world, art-as-likeness was really falsifying the way we see that world.” Although all art is a form of imitation—whether of the actual or the imaginary world—Douglas’s belief highlights the way artists have used conflicting […]

Discuss how the function of literature compares with the function of myth as described in chapter 3.

The Functions of Literature and Myth Discuss how the function of literature compares with the function of myth as described in chapter 3. To focus your answer, consider the hero myth alongside any combination of Homer’s Iliad, the novels of Ernest Hemingway discussed in this chapter, and one or more war poems from the chapter’s […]

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