Haddon utilizes Christopher's autistic disability to his advantage, and tries to deliver a realistic take on autism through his literature. Haddon's work, supported by many authors, helps to analyze to what extent an individual with autism is responsible for conflicts that arise as a consequence of his or her actions. ... This illustrates how some works of literature may not thoroughly and accurately depict an autistic character. ... These qualities can be easily identified in the portrayals of autistic children in literature. ... In a special investigation performed by the Childre...

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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". ... That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. ... 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. ... Reading is a muse and escape for many just like many other forms of the arts; modern writers s...

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Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. ... The relationship between Jane and Helen is often a shelter for the characters, a place away from the rest of the world away from their problems, something that I have noticed across literature that explores female relationships. ...

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The Monk: A Rebellious Offspring of the Age of Reason Understanding the Gothic novel can be accomplished by obtaining a familiarity of the Augustan point of view, which helps to develop a reference point for comparing and contrasting the origin of Gothic literature. ... No longer is literature responsible for explanation, but it now has the power to question. ... With the evolution of the Gothic novel, for the first time literature was perceived as limitless. ... Unlike traditional literature of predecessors like Fielding, Johnson and Pope, Lewis" The Monk embodies one of the first ste...

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The Monk: A Rebellious Offspring of the Age of Reason Understanding the Gothic novel can be accomplished by obtaining a familiarity of the Augustan point of view, which helps to develop a reference point for comparing and contrasting the origin of Gothic literature. ... No longer is literature responsible for explanation, but it now has the power to question. ... With the evolution of the Gothic novel, for the first time literature was perceived as limitless. ... Unlike traditional literature of predecessors like Fielding, Johnson and Pope, Lewis" The Monk embodies one of the first ste...

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But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. ... Such is the complexity of children's literature. ... So while unimaginative critics can dump children's literature into a category of the insignificant, it is quite evident that the genre holds an important position in literature. ... Little Women, by teaching young girls the lessons of maturing into women, and the joys and problems that come along with such a process, succeeds in playing a noteworthy role within children's litera...

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Works of literature that contain textual integrity effectively examine universal themes of the human experience. ... The treatment of belonging within works of literature effectively assists the exploration of universal themes of the human experience. ... Highlighted by Malvinas' characters lack of belonging, is the power of how fictional works explore real issues, like the need to belong within society, and how works of literature effectively examine universal themes of the human experience. ... Through works of literature the inclusion of the theme of freedom further supports the examin...

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The English novel which was destined to live, in fact out live all other forms of literature, whether poetry or drama, and shine even today on the horizon of English literature as a bright star, actually rose and greatly developed in the 18th century. ... The biggest and the most important factor which moulded the shape of this century and helped immensely in the breakup with the restoration age was the rise of the middle classes. ... The novel not only provided them entertainment and helped them while away their new found luxury of idleness but also educated them in more ways than one. ... I...

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is not just another stab at children's literature, but rather an introspective piece written by an avant garde trying to deal with all the issues he sees on his plate. ... This forced Salman Rushdie into hiding to avoid his otherwise inevitable death, and with the help of the British government he was able to navigate through the storm and survive through the natural death of the Ayatollah. ... The literary term started out in the art world in the early 1920's to help define a new post-expressionist form of painting that was emerging, but it has since been adapted to include works of...

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The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly...

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For the purposes of this essay I will be exploring the question of whether or not the formalities of literature have to be expunged so that adaptations can translate convincingly to cinema or can we see a much more fruitful relationship between these two texts, and one in which can grant Woolf a degree of prescience with which she is rarely credited. ... 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. ... One critic, Jane ...

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These small details help tell the story that so often is expressed with either too much emotion or not enough understanding, ultimately creating a beautiful piece of literature which would bring even the most callous reader to tears. ...

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Adaptation: the phenomenon Literary texts provide a vein of raw material which is already tested: stories which work and are popular, as well as offering the 'respectability' conferred by the notion of 'literature' in itself, as well as the cache of certain writers. ... Geoffrey Wagner proposed considering adaptations according to broad categories which, according to MacFarlane, help move us on from the hegemony of fidelity. ...

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In the stories opening chapter McIlvanney takes a non-traditional approach to crime literature as he reveals to readers the novel's killer. ... While unconventional, McIlvanney's nonlinear approach to Laidlaw's narrative helps readers gain insight into what would otherwise be a surely misunderstood character. ...

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