The dialogical novel is one of versions of the novel of XX century, distinguishing it as from the traditional "realistic" novel, explaining the sense hidden in event, and from the traditional "romantic" novel, explaining in a plot the developed in consciousness of the author gnosiological model of the world. In the "realistic" novel the reader deals with plot objectivation, and in "romantic" - with subject. The author of the realistic novel subcontracts objectivating and finishing functions of the experienced historical regularity whereas the author of the romantic novel subordinates t...

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In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven throughout the majority of the novel and is mainly the instrument of satire. ... Throughout the novel, Yossarian's logic represents an effort to detach himself from mass purposes, to rationalise his own survival. ... The humour in Captain Corelli's Mandolin is intertwined gently into the novel from the start as light-hearted comedy. ... This is more noticeable in Catch-22 because the satirical undertone is woven throughout the whole novel. ... The ludicrous nature of this dialogue arrangement is used throughout, and is therefore an integral part ...

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The four different literary elements discussed are: Character Development, Novels' structure, Magical Realism and Narrative Diction is explored through an analysis of the choice of diction use by the authors as well as the back-stories of each protagonist in both novels, its effectiveness in influencing the readers' fear. Novel's Structure is discussed by examining the style of the each novel's structure and their twist endings. ... Introduction Horror and thrillers have always been one of readers' favorite novel genres around the world. ... The readers' fear al...

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Elements of homosexuality also lace the novel. ... Rice greatly strived to take a different stance to Stoker's novel. ... Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. ... Indeed, both novels portray very different presentations. However, in terms of viewing these novels as Gothic' texts relating to vampirism they illustrate remarkably similar features. ...

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In The Bluest Eye, Morrison thoroughly uses her previous experiences in aid to create the feeling of hardship and the melancholy tone of the novel. ... She also enjoyed lecturing across the country, teaching part-time, and writing many novels ("Toni Morrison Biography"). The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel. Her novels are all carefully written to produce poetic phrases and strong emotional responses from the readers. ... Frequently using childhood memories to help start writing, Morrison's real-life world is often included in her novels. ...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... 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. ... Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. ... He published...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... 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. ... Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. ... He publis...

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Deciding who, if anyone, is morally responsible for this tragic cycle of events is made next to impossible by the novel's multiplicity of agent-narrators. ... The reader of Wuthering Heights may at first suppose that Lockwood is to be the narrator of this novel: for three chapters, indeed, he performs this role, and this device has much to do with the novel's ultimate significance. ... These are, bizarrely, the only two houses in the novel, and the contrast between them is brought out with obvious symbolic intent. ... As Marxist critics properly point out, the engine of this novel o...

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Four years later, Eco responded to readers of his novel in an eclectic text called Postscript to The Name of the Rose. ... Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. ... Umberto Eco's best-selling novel--The Name of the Rose challenges its readers to map their landscapes cognitively and illustrate the emergence of the late-twentieth-century novel of complexity, that is, the novel of emergence...

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In 1960, Vittorio De Sica adapted Moravia's novel and directed Two Women, a film that filters reality through religious symbolism. ... In both the novel and the film, the setting plays an integral role in defining the imagery. ... In both the film and the novel, the horrors and deprivations of war induce the abandonment of all moral values. ... Both the novel and the film are indictments of an accepted social morality, which fully reveals itself only in times of such great stress. ... At the beginning of both the novel and the film, it is evident that Rosetta personifies purity and go...

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John Grisham himself claims that he was inspired to write the novel when he witnessed a rape trial in 1984 and was shocked by the young victims testimony. 2. ... PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS ABOUT TOPICALITY OF THE NOVEL As early as 1996, when the movie based upon the novel was released, some critics argued that the presentation of the racial tension felt outdated and inaccurate. ... " (Hunter) These elements described in the review are not additions by the filmmakers, but do already exist at the very heart of the novel. Similar criticism came forward in 2013, when the novel was adapted again,...

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In this story William Golding employs religious allegory, linking parts of his novel to several biblical stories and portrays Simon as a Christ-like figure. Some events and setting details prove this novel to contain religious allegory, considering they are almost parallel to those in the bible. ... Furthermore Simon resembles Jesus throughout the whole novel, and is presented as a Christ-like figure. ... The symbolism and representations, having to do with religion, that illuminate the flaws of human kind justifiably make this novel an allegory. ... The relation that William Golding makes ...

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The majority of the critics have made it clear that they believe that the experiments and works of previous scientists, alchemists, and contemporary authors also had an influence on both the novel and the author. ...

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In particular, Feodor Gladkov's novel represents the struggles of post-Revolutionary construction in a Russian village and includes insight into the minds of his characters, giving us a glimpse into the real Soviet citizen. Throughout the novel, Gladkov provides the reader with a window for understanding the emotions of Gleb and Dasha Chumalov, the main characters. ... In particular, the opening passage of the novel introduces the protagonist, Gleb Chumalov. ... Gleb's fond memories of the factory in the early paragraphs of the novel suggest his passion; indeed, the industry seems ...

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During the novel Shelley poses the question are all humans born innocent and then changed and corrupt by society. ... During the novel Shelley uses this idea for the character Victor Frankenstein, who dares to use his imagination to create something real. ... Therefore Shelley subtitles her novel, The Modern Prometheus as Prometheus stole from the Gods the fire of life to seek for human betterment and to create the human form. This is a reference to the novel as Frankenstein tries to create a new species and consequently tries to rival or replace God. ... Through reading novels like Milton...

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Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. ... Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... The novel follows the development of Jeanette as she grows up and makes the decision that she is a lesbian and this causes uproar in the family home and in church as her highly religious mother regar...

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The paper is an analytical assessment of the novel, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy to substantiate the research further. ... The paper substantiates its findings using reference from an already produced novel, online articles, and reference readings and thus, secondary data is acquired. ... The analysis of the data was done using a novel, read a couple of times, within a week. ... The major source this research is based on is a novel by Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things." ... Since the research is based on a novel, cross comparison of different characters is drawn to ensure ...

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"2 Her novels raise central matters within her society, often challenging their foundation and meaning through her portrayal of them. ... Through an examination of her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, and with reference to her later 1815 novel Emma, it is evident that Austen's attention to women's roles and social order broke conventional ideas of class hierarchy, the ideal woman and the heroine. ... In light of this, David Herbert's assertion that Austen studies "personal values, virtues and deficiencies within her 'set,'" but neglects to "questi...

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This theme is prevalent throughout the Gothic genre, from the earlier poetry of Coleridge, Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98); through to Bram Stoker's popular novel Dracula (1897) and the striking late set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. ... In Stoker's novel, temptation is issued from the prurient and lascivious female characters. ... Both Coleridge and Stoker have religious backgrounds, a possible explanation for the distinct use of Christian allegory in their novels. ... The modernization and urbanization of society drove an overarchi...

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At the peak of the 19th century there was a "revolutionary" shift and rise in the popularity of writers rejecting the concept of romanticism in their novellas and novels. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the modern perspective in his work. Flaubert's technique of cinematographic description was amplified through the form in his novels in alternating the point of view in the narrative throughout his work. Both of these distinguishing factors in writing form are found in his novel Madame...

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It is therefore under the influence of these values that the characters within Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, are constructed. ... Shelley's disgust at the philosopher's cold-hearted abandonment of his five illegitimate children by Therese le Vasseur, an illiterate working class girl, had a significant impact on the construction of the novel's main character, Frankenstein. ... Frankenstein, and all male characters in the novel, inhabit the public sphere. ... This segregation of masculine work from feminine affections is apparent throughout the novel and is exemplified throu...

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In Daniel Defoe's novel, "Robinson Crusoe," the titular character struggles to remain moral in a society which places great significance on the attainment of power and wealth. ... The man who wrote this list proves to have a significantly different perspective on life than the man who created the one early in the novel, where God was not even mentioned, let alone placed at the top of the list." ... The Crusoe presented early in the novel can be seen here, as he continues to use all of the resources available to him and manage his supplies. ...

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Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Within this novel Alexie manages to merge together the mythical and romanticized view of Native Americans (although Alexie "has been at pains to deflate just such romantic myths, whether steward of the earth, stoical warrior, shaman or savage") with a more realistic, and perhaps somewhat depressing, account of Native Americans regarding matters such as racism, religion, the commodification of Native American culture and life on the reservations including alcoholism and health service...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. ... Within the novels, Toni Morrison presents the complex stories of African American experience, and especially African American women's experience and their search for identity in the American mainstream society. ... The name which Morrison chose for this part of the town indicates that the African American inhabitants of the Bottom were dealing with racial oppression and moreover, they still are dealing with racial oppression in 1919, where the novel begins...

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As the various industries grows and expand a number of novel commodity options continue to be launched in the market. ... Existing novel products may help market players in gaining access to fresh markets that were unapproachable in the past. ... This could be enhanced by documenting dissenting considerations and opinions along with the novel product recommendations (Stanford2011). ... In other cases, nevertheless, firms enter fresh business lines, expand into novel distribution channels or extend into fresh markets. ... In precise, the firm evaluates the novel commodity from a fairness point ...

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