OBJECTIVES This study is aimed at achieving the following objectives: 1) In this study, the language and narrative technique in both text will be examined; 2) To examine the psychological effects of identity crisis on an individual as depicted in the literary works and 3) To examine the setting in the literary works that encourages identity crisis. ... Focus will be on the characters, language, narrative technique and setting. ... Post-colonialism is described as an intellectual direction (sometimes also called an "era" or the "post-colonial theory") that exists since ar...

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Expressionism was a major force in German culture - in theater and painting as well as film-during the 1920's, just as during the same period, Formalism marked the burgeoning cultural life-both literary and cinematic-in the Soviet Union. ... Soviet filmmaker-theorists not only wanted to capture reality but also to change it - and found the powerful tool of montage, close ups and editing techniques to multiply visual impact. ... Film theory volumes by Pudovkin (Film Technique, 1926; Film Acting, 1935) and Balázs (Theory of the Film:Character and Growth of a New Art (1948) are ...

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Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. ... To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... Analytically, this book enables students to read between the lines and explore all literary aspects of the text. For exampl...

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Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. ... To Place the book in the context of literary tradition, it would be first useful to define what is meant by literary tradition. According to F.R Leavis in his book The Great Tradition', a book can only deserve literary recognition if it has "serious, moral concern". ... Analytically, this book enables students to read between the lines and explore all literary aspects of the text. For exampl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... Johnson, on the other hand, was a firm believer in these literary rules and yet it was his "Preface to Shakespeare" which became the first significant breach in these limitations. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual wi...

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David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... Johnson, on the other hand, was a firm believer in these literary rules and yet it was his "Preface to Shakespeare" which became the first significant breach in these limitations. ... The Augustan approach was intellectual wi...

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In Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Tale," and Bernice Kanner's "Big Boys Don't Cry: Returning the Macho Message," each author's uses a legion of literary devices to identify the reader with the moral message he or she has dedicated their work's ambition to. ... In each essay, the authors separate their styles using varying literary inclinations such as structure, tone and perspective. ... Kanner uses a more formal non-fictional writing technique from a first person perspective and is filled with examples and scientific facts to establish her idea and deline...

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E.M Forster's widely admired novel "Howard's End," provides a detailed portrayal of life in Edwardian England; a series of characters exposed as if under a literary microscope. ... The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. ... There would be no trains, no ships to carry [...] literary people about in, no fields even.' ... This formal feature is a characteristic of modernist technique, and it implicates that something's are unknown, a symbolic perspective for ...

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While the literary language is superior to spoken language for the Grammar-Translation Method teachers who use the Direct Method teach students how to communicate in the target language, so they teach common, everyday phrases and words. ... As these languages usually are not spoken any more we can study them in different written texts and literary works they preserved in. ... Teachers should vary the materials used in the classroom, e.g. articles from newspapers on different topics, selected literary passages, texts from the Internet, advertisements, etc. ...

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Postman describes technopoly as a "totalitarian technocracy" - totalitarian in that it is worshipped as an authoritative, all-controlling voice that demands the "submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology" (Postman, 52) - drawing on Ellul for credence. ... Baudrillard theorizes that "technique as a medium quashes...the 'message' of the product " and Postman agrees maintaining that the glut of technical knowledge diverts us from true direction in life and from focusing on and obtaining meaningful information. ... This is supported by litera...

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They put on display divergent insights based upon their conflicting observations, and, indeed, their very different literary aims. ... "Little we see in nature that is ours," describes the association that develops to be at the clemency of mankind because of the frail technique the environment is described. ... Wordsworth alternatively used literary techniques to portray charm, tranquility, and serenity. ...

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From the outset, subjective camera techniques inscribe the viewer as complicitious company with a shared horizon of understanding so that eventually the audience has become so complicitous that words are superfluous - Orlando's knowing gaze in the audience's direction suffices to punctuate key moments of the diegesis with shared irony. Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. ... As with any literary adaptation, Potter's a...

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Simulacra is another technique employed by Byatt that reflects "post-modernism". ... Simulacra is a technique used also in Moulin Rouge, where characters instead of forming there own original thoughts, ideas, music and dialogue opt to express themselves through contemporary artists, such as U2, and John Lennon. Bricolage is a prominent postmodern technique used by Byatt throughout Possession, to legitimise the relationship between Ash and LaMotte. Possession contains many different literary exserts including letters, poems, fairytales and short stories. ... Byatt incorporates postmodern tec...

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The film Clueless deals primarily with the protagonist's (Cher's) thoughts through the filmic technique of voice over and with her experiences through dialogue. ... Vast passages of descriptive language detailing the thoughts and emotions of each character are not necessary in Clueless, as filmic and acting techniques allow these features to be conveyed through as little as a single camera shot, music or facial expression of an actor. Though the language that Jane Austen has utilized in Emma has transformed to accommodate modern responders of Clueless, the values and themes communic...

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She has created a style of writing that exists on both literary and religious grounds, and excels in doing justice to both. ... Her written thoughts on the subject disclose that she had devised a complete literary philosophy committed to blending the two into a distinctly fused energy to "prove the truth of the Faith." ... As for the excessive application of violence in her work, O'Connor's literary viewpoint permitted its use in assisting the portrayal of a greater image of sacred realism. ... This technique is successful because the author permits violence to remain without bein...

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Dada is a literary and artistic movement that began in Europe during the horrors of World War I. ... Despite some bad beginnings, Ball approached Jan Ephraim, owner of a cafe, and proposed starting an avant-garde cabaret, which then served as Zurich's "first literary cafe". ... The experimental nature of their work went hand-in-hand with the development of new techniques (use of machine engines). ...

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Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on different things, such as painting, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. ... Denys Hays also states that many of these artistic explorers achieved a "fresh aesthetic sensibility by merging literary and artistic classicism in their love of Roman art" (36). ... The writings of "Erasmus of Rotterdam," a theologian and humanist from the Netherlands, and of "Ulrich of Hutten," a German humanist and publicist, as well as the "Epistolae obscurorom virorom," Latin for "obscurantist lett...

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Except for these literary endeavors, Morris devoted most of his time to architecture and painting. ... The choice of using numerous glaze techniques or concentrating or hand painted decoration offered different visual treats. ... The techniques were based upon medieval times and inspired from the work of William Morris. ... The Roycroft shops were known for their masterful binding techniques. In the United States as well as in Great Britain, reformers loved the qualities of handcrafted object: simple, straight forward design; solid materials of good quality; and sound, enduring construction...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." ... Cather's clever insertion of her initial as the snake "was lying in long loose waves, like a letter 'W'" forms a literary technique she perhaps used to inform her readers on her lesbian position. ... Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to recognize the possibility of disruptive plots and spaces that position women as subjects of their own stories." ...

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The use of these literary devices increases throughout the book as Winston's emotions towards the party and Big Brother formulate, harden and are then systematically crushed by O"Brien. ... This technique allows Orwell to leave out a lot of unnecessary dialogue, focusing merely on what is important to the plot and Winston's life. ... This technique allows the reader to acquire information on Winston's feelings and reactions to events around them. ...

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Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material revelry and at the same time presented the disappointment of the postwar generation for America, the concern for the loss of conventional values and ideals, and the re...

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An essay that clearly states an argument, produces evidence supporting that argument, and concludes that argument with plausible solutions produces not only an essay, but a literary piece with meaning and purpose. Throughout this entire essay, author Brent Staples uses not only his words, but also somewhat subliminal structure techniques, such as his use of irony, as pillars of the overall value and success of the entire article. By utilizing these techniques, and maintaining a lucid and easy-to-follow pattern of writing, Staples forms an essay that has the power to evoke feeling, and is mor...

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In a situation where the reader does not have "direct access to a character´s [inner] thoughts and feelings (Edmondson 20), other than in traditional novels where the literary minds are transparent and the reader knows everything about them. ... As already mentioned in the beginning, Virginia Woolf uses this narrative technique on purpose because she wants to put the reader in a real life situation where it depends on himself on which accounts he attaches great importance, and consequently what opinion he forms of a certain character. ...

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This literary style helps Anaya to communicate with his readers, and convey to them through it, one of the major ideas: Antonio's development of moral independence, and the influence of cultural beliefs on his identity. ... In fact, this is one of Anaya's techniques to make us accept her powers as truth; the more Ultima happens to exercise her powers, the more we feel ourselves as part of the story's folkloric atmosphere. ... Furthermore, Antonio's dream about his birth emphasizes their exceptional bond, which is another literary means that corroborates the definition of "m...

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Mary Shelley: Achieving Excellence Through Her Sorrows Influenced greatly by her mother and father, two of the greatest radical literary writers of the eighteenth century, Mary Shelley was predestined to be equally as moving and thought provoking as her parents. ... Percy was very egotistical when it came to his literary talent thinking himself to be "a poetic angel sent to improve humankind" (Miller 31) while in France. ...

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