Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. Stephen Crane is a prime example of this approach in his short story "The Open Boat". ... The personal experience can create a significantly more realistic vibe to a s...

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Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United Stat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United Stat...

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Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of fiction [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ... The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... Throughout the plot, these three women abandon thei...

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Part of the character Emma Bovary, is also based off the true story of Eugene Delemare, who was a student of Flaubert's father and a physician in the French army. ... The beauty of Flaubert's style as a critical realist is perhaps most evident in the manner in which he creates rhythm within the novel with the building up of Emma's expectations and then having them plummet back to the depths of disparity. ... 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 becom...

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(Eco, 1984) Eco explains how the historical fiction writer must become immersed in historical evidence: to tell a story, "you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." ... Discussing the "mannerist," or hierarchical, labyrinth that he constructs in his novel, Eco in his "Postscript" says the following about the far more complex understanding of space that William and the readers glimpse at the end of the story: An abstract model of conjecturality is the labyrinth. ...

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