Subsequently, the writerly form of the novel, drawing the responder in through use of rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. ... In the book, Goldman's frequent comments on the novel and his creation of an external world help the responders to relate to him as fellow readers, while the relation of the book to the real world helps to convey his message that "life isn't fair." ... The different mediums of production have different audiences, purposes and techniq...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Spenc Swift's Perception of Mankind In Gulliver's Travel's, a classic work of high adventure and political satire first published in 1726, author Jonathan Swift contemplates both the fanciful imaginings of world travel and the oftentimes governmental structures of 18th century Europe. ... Gulliver's Travels leaves the reader with the strong impression that Swift was disappointed with mankind in general, as is evidenced by his critiques of the human species. ... Some readers might consider Gulliver's Travel's depressing; it paints not only a bleak picture of hum...

• Word Count: 1156
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pope has succeeded in creating a highly effective form of satirical comment, one which seems quite paradoxical in that it could have made the Augustan reader laugh or smile whilst the true nature of their ways was being made clear to them, one can only marvel at such a degree of skill and artifice in a poet. ... They are described, for example, as "the light militia of lower sky" , an obvious reference to military formations that would have been a common feature of the classic epic genre. ...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate