INTRODUCTION Identity in the simplest terms refers to who and what we are. ... 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. ... The theory is set to understand and analyze the operation and effect of colonialists and anti-colonialist ideologies on the political, psychological, social and cu...

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A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian fiction revealing a society illustrative of certain well-known social terms such as the following: government, society, political party, totalitarianism, deviance, punishment, mob, social control, power, language, propaganda, status symbols beliefs, crime. and self-con...

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Thus, rather than examine the dramatic elements of the play I will focus on the literary components that it has in terms of characterization, plot, the author's style, Shabaka's tone, and narration from the first person point-of-view. ... Another key literary component is the author's style or the way in which the piece is conveyed or portrayed to the audience. ... Ultimately Mingus Remixed has many literary elements of fiction such as characterization, point of view, plot, style, tone, and storytelling within its unorthodox structure; that it is narrated like a novel while al...

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The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... Clearly, the restoration period had great contribution in the development and presentation of literary work. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

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These theories, along with the literary theorists behind them, are imperative to understand and recognize for their role as the foundation of this modern literary study. ... Iser uses the terms determinate and indeterminate, other wise known as indeterminacy, as a way to explain Rosenblatt's "blueprint " concept in his terms. ... In other words, when critics assess the text, they are not actually looking at the literary work. ... Holland terms this, a reader's "identity theme, " which gets projected onto the text by the reader (Tyson 183). ... Reader-Response Criticism is without a...

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These terms show that God is kind, and encourages people to be devoted to God. ... Aside from the contents, I was impressed with the level of literary complexity of the Qur'an. The messages from the text are conveyed with various literary structures and devices. ... However, from a pure literary stylistic stand point, its scattered mode of composition takes the flow away from the book. ... The literary styles of repetition, imagery, and parallelism are unique combination that serves their purpose well. ...

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The main problem was that the British and the Bulgarians had no way of communicating on equal terms. ... They marked the waning of the popular religious tract as a dominating presence on the meagre literary scene. ... His was the most popular British literary name in the period discussed. ... The Bulgarian literary milieu very often transformed totally the material from abroad according to its current uses. ... Carlyle appeared twice on the Bulgarian literary scene, both times as a point of reference . ...

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The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. 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 in...

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The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. 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 in...

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Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and rhetorical devices that it possesses such as simile, metaphor, imagery and many more. ... A metaphor is derived from a simile in that it equates different things without using connecting terms such as like or as. ... Allusion is a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. ... Meter is the organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse...

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These characteristics that make you stop re-read or re-think about what has just happened is what makes "The Cask of Amontillado" a very strong literary piece. One of the key literary characteristics is Poe's use of language. ... As if the sophisticated phrases weren't enough Poe went and used some Latin terms in the story. ... The picture that Poe paints in the reader's mind about each scene really proves the story is a true literary piece. ... These sometimes in depth and hard to follow characteristics are what would drive a mainly commercial literary reader away from "The C...

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"Often constructivism was overtly propagandist in nature: sometimes by the placement of simple geometric forms in the kind of literary context which turns such forms into representations - (Constructivism 161). ... Early on he had published a literary magazine between 1892 and 1894, while still at the Jesuit college, and in 1898 he published his first work in the new 'free verse' style. ... An innovative and brilliant publicist, he used modern methods to publicise his new art movement - chiefly in the form of a flood of manifestos which promised much but were often difficult to prod...

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But can we say then that a romance novel is a non-literary work? ... Until then, romance novels are non-literary. ... Most literary histories do include treatment of philosophers, historians, theologians, moralists, politicians, and even some scientists. ... In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ... The literary historian is not automatically transformed into a proper historian of these disciplines. ...

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For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. ...

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As Patterson said, "While literature necessarily arises from a historical matrix, it can never be adequately understood in terms of that origin, no matter how carefully the scholar seeks to reconstruct it"(Patterson, p 9). When it comes to interpreting the history of South Asia, one must look into literary as well as historical texts in order to see the big picture. ... Even in the Dharmashastras (Law Books), a literary source, there are biased views due to the Brahman authors. ... Literary texts give information regarding to history, such as geographical clues and cultural traditions. The R...

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In "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the personality of Montresor is explicitly demonstarted to the audience through numerous literary techniques employed by Poe throughout the story. ... But he wants it on his own terms, and to reach those he must commit the actions that transpire in the story before he might possibly be satisfied with Fortunado's doom. ... The entire story acts in many ways, as an in depth look into the mental state of a man and as such, Poe's literary methods effectively reveal Montresor's character in great detail....

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The African perception of life, religious believes, political ideologies, literary insights and thought patterns were best represented in these African languages as initiated by the African ancestors. ... In precise terms, African languages have been significantly lost to English and French languages among others. ... In other words, these foreign languages have bestridden the African literary world like a colossus, forcing the African writers to compress their thought patterns and ideologies within the available expressive modes of these foreign languages. ... More so, there is the challenge ...

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In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. In earlier literature, the term 'love' related exclusively to platonic and Christian love however this new concept of love was just a literary concept that cannot be applied to real life due to what it entails. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that court...

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In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. In earlier literature, the term 'love' related exclusively to platonic and Christian love however this new concept of love was just a literary concept that cannot be applied to real life due to what it entails. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that court...

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In simpler terms it can be concluded that in this stanza of her poem, Bradstreet is stating how she is obnoxious to those who believe she should be doing the simple duties of a common woman. ... Rowlandson discusses all of her hardships and struggles in her literary work, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. ... This does not agree with the Puritanistic ideals that she does a good job portraying later on throughout this literary work. ... With the understanding of these hardships, the tone of Rowlandson's literary work can be much more appreciated. ... They too are human...

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Definition This brings us to the definition of feminist literary criticism. ... It insists on its universality in specifically male terms. ... North American feminist critics of the 70s and early 80s took it a step further and began analyzing literary texts via close textual reading and historical scholarship3. ... Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career; literary history; and, of course, studies of particular writers and works." ... This type of crit...

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Poe successfully developed a mysterious atmosphere by using such literary crafts as diction, foreshadowing and so forth, and evoked readers' terror by providing few details over the narration. The literary crafts used in "The Fall of the House of Usher"" and their effects, materializing the terror and the mystery, are what this paper is going to examine subsequently. ... By embodying multiple doppelganger, not only did Poe boost the intense spook, but he reached a unprecedented success of unifying terror and literary beauty. ... Bailey claims that, "...to assume that Poe made use of vam...

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Italian terms used in musical notation denote more than a dozen different tempos, which included allegro, moderato, and lento. ... The idea of a Romantic era in music, as opposed to the Classical era can be extremely confusing, not only because of the literary origins of the term, but also because of doubt as to the period in which it should refer. ... When looking at literature, "romantic" was always determined by literary definitions, then it is undeniable, taking Europe as a whole, that the history or pre-history of Romanticism begins in about 1770. ... Nor should we be misled by the fa...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job expressing cool as it applies to him and his ancestors, but in terms of defining it for all humanity, he is incomplete. If one was to use his terms of defining cool for all peoples everywhere (not just on a pur...

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What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ...

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