It would be difficult to try and clarify the meaning of this book - the author's meaning - but the superficial nature of its story certainly puts it in a category of post-modernist writing. ... The color, the pattern, and the soul of his piece comes from "a self-reflexivity prompted by the author's awareness of the theory underlying the construction of fictional works" (Waugh 2). ... The characters of the book each have their own parallels with Rushdie the author, but Rashid (the father of Haroun) most closely follows the strife of Rushdie as he is silenced by the lack of 'story...

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Characterization is a literary element used by the author to present qualities of characters in a literary piece, the purpose of characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. Authors present various characters possessing dissimilar qualities, to emphasize different aspects of the work. In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaneil Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. ... Dimmesdale was put in...

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Chillingworth becomes the Reverend's "leech" that uses his intuition to sense a great burden in Dimmesdale's soul. ... Hawthorne goes into great depth to describe the change in character of Roger Chillingworth, visible in his appearance and sinister in his descriptions. ... As evidenced throughout the novel, the symbolism used with light is used by the author to give negative and positive connotations and attributes to the characters and their actions. ... The relation the author establishes between Chillingworth and "Satan's emissary", with ominous eyes and the glimmering of ...

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Another way of defining literature is to limit it to 'great books', books which, whatever their subject, and is 'notable for literary form or expression'. ... The treatment of these authors, though usually much briefer than that of poets, playwrights, and novelists, are rarely limited to their strictly aesthetic merits. In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ... He becomes simply a compiler, a self-conscious intruder or someone who is writing more on personal grounds than by the works of pervious authors or hi...

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Okonokwa spent a great deal of energy attempting to suppress gentleness. ... Through showing the reader the foible of Okonokwa was his inability to think rationally and his obsession with manliness the author educates us on how to avoid these fatal errors. ...

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Chapter 15 of Voltaire's 'Candide' can be taken as a perfect example of the author's skill as an 18th Century Enlightenment writer. ... Voltaire is an author who handles character dialogue expertly. ... Voltaire makes great use of irony as a means to underline the inconsistency of the baron and the ridiculousness of 18th Century's rigid society. ... Parody is used to great affect frequently within Candide, this is but one example. ...

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An example of an idea of the dangers of intellect would be through Frankenstein, to whom "life and death appeared ideal bounds" to be broken through, whom succeeds in his intellectual pursuit but at great cost, because in the end he not only loses his brother, wife, and best friend, he also ends up being the most alienated. ... In a nutshell, Griffith focuses on the ideas of the Romantic Era and describes how they are all in Frankenstein and gives input on other ideas such as how the life of the author is basically being told in some sections of the novel. ...

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Many of the authors whose works have been included in the canon are white males like William Shakespeare and Mark Twain. ... Although knowing the past is important, a biased view of the past isn't such a great idea since the merits of many are over looked. ...

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Through her works of prose and poetry, this author presents herself as "a woman of learning" who clearly obtained some means of schooling in her past [ CITATION Gel12 l 1033 ]. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ...

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For her, the term 'monster' is one that owns great compassion, and such humanlike qualities such as kind-heartedness, sympathy, and a despairing desire to be respected. ... In conclusion, William Christie once wrote, 'monster/myths are not what are envisioned to mean by the Frankenstein author, culture or society. ... Therefore, the text has been misappropriated in many conceding methods, fallacious to many authors' aims; however, it still embraces an 'abundance of connotations' (Baldick, 2012)....

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She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... She grew up during the Great Depression, which her father compensated for by working three jobs for seventeen years ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... As soon as she learned how to read, it became one of her favorite things to do; she read the works of great authors such as Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Gustave Flaubert, who all impressed her in different ways. ... In an...

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"Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus" is a gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley and firstly published anonymously in 1818. ... In her novel "Frankenstein, " Mary Shelley parallels the stories of Victor Frankenstein, the creature, and Robert Walton to underscore the idea that knowledge is indeed a potentially great power, but that be extremely dangerous when one isn't in control of it. Knowledge is a great power to be reckoned with and can become extremely dangerous when it one does not have the ability to properly manage it; however, when man is in fact in control of his k...

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As A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is largely autobiographical, the denouement seen in Stephen's journal entries also holds great significance for Joyce's own struggles in staying loyal to either religion or his own inner artist. ... Unfortunately, these cultural "nets" from which Stephen eventually is untangled are obstacles "which the author [Joyce] himself never entirely evaded....

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Its great themes are incest and cannibalism. ... The creation of the Gothic novel can be contributed to Lewis" The Monk; he set the standard for which authors still today use for reference in their own Gothic novels. ...

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In the analytical essay "A Pox on Love: Diagnosing Madame Bovary's Blind Beggar,"" author Mary Donaldson-Evans explores the relationship between Gustave Flaubert's "preoccupation with language and penchant for the medical metaphor-(3). ... He creates this effect by using a great number of accurate details as building blocks and by carefully selecting and arranging them into a new reality. ...

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Flaubert's style is also described as indirect free-style in which he very carefully describes characters not directly as the author, but through the eyes of another character. ... A woman, cast in this society with no rights or status independent of her husband, Emma tries, much like Charles" mother tried, to force the man closest to her into becoming something great to fulfill the emptiness of her life. ...

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Its great themes are incest and cannibalism. ... The creation of the Gothic novel can be contributed to Lewis" The Monk; he set the standard for which authors still today use for reference in their own Gothic novels. ...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

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Emma was written by Jane Austen in 1815, in a society where marriage and social standing were of great consequence. ... A novel such as Emma leaves it to the initiative of the audience to take note and remember these specific events, places and objects, leading each responder to create their own meaning from the text, despite the undeniable and somewhat forceful influence of authorial intrusion. ...

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Don Quixote, which is composed of three different sections, is a great examination of the possibilities of narration. ... In the third section, however, Cervantes goes into the novel as a character; as a combination of Benengeli and Cervantes the author. ...

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Scottish born author William McIlvanney's Laidlaw, published in 1977, is a novel that illustrates Scotland's, and particularly Glasgow's, changing social and economic landscape at the time. ... As mentioned, the 1970s in Glasgow were a time of great economic strife. ...

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In attempting to explain the differences between Virginia Woolf's Orlando and her own, Potter states, "So I made various changes with my heart in my mouth, as one does when dealing with a great classic of literature. ... In her paper, Sharon Oudit further embellishes on the idea that Woolf's novel is in fact riddled with cinematic allusion thereby implicating that the author intended the novel for filmic adaptation and mocked her readers. ...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ...

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Its author, the elderly monk Adso, divides his text into seven parts, spanning seven days; each part or day is further ordered into "periods corresponding to the liturgical hours" of the monastic day (7). ... The Name of the Rose is an early fourteenth-century historical narrative framed by the contemporary author's opening description of the manuscript and Adso's end-of-the-century epilogue. ...

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