His other works such as Crabs is significantly contrasting, leaving the reader hesitant on the realism of the story throughout the entire passage. ... These two concepts of reality are significant as the author specifically chooses to view life in the way it transpires, with a depiction of ordinary realist possessions represented with the clothing, accompanied with an imagination or modification of realism signifying the Fastalogians. ... The majority of the story unravels with a sense of realism still intact as the main protagonist 'Crabs' is stuck in the Star drive-in theatre af...

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Realism was the literary period of the late 1800s to early 1900s that focused on everyday American life. The characteristics of realism involved focusing more on the character than on the plot, as well as decisions that the character was faced with. ...

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Forster may or may not have been a modernist, but in his writing of "Howard's End," he brings the reader into a type of "limbo," toggling the text toward a point of realism, before steering in in more obvious modernist conventions. By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, w...

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In the short story The Fall of the House of Usher, Poe utilizes a variety of methods to manipulate not only the reader's emotions but also their mind by making what people dreaded and detested most come to life while at the same time retaining his readers by laying down a trap that lures and keeps t...

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The honest truth is that Salman Rushdie's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories falls under the form of fiction writing that is often referred to as 'magic-realism.' 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 literature which expertly meld fantasy with realism, in such a way as to treat the fantastic as normal. ...

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Sherwood Anderson was very original in his style. He experimented with his writing much like a scientist with chemicals. When he found something he liked, he would often use it a great deal and worked his methods to their full potential. When it came to telling stories Anderson stayed simple. "The d...

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At the end of the book, Joyce switches from a regular narrative voice to diary entries, thus symbolizing that Stephen has gained his own narrative voice and is now capable of speaking directly to the reader instead of Joyce speaking for him, yet another mechanic that adds to Dedaleus" realism. ...

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What we are mainly concerned with here is about unnatural narratives. First of all let me exemplify this concept. Richardson defines unnatural narratives as anti-mimetic texts that move beyond the conventions of 'natural' narratives, i.e. "the mimesis of actual speech situations", or violate t...

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The play Mingus Remixed takes the stance of an autobiographical narrative told by Charles Mingus himself and presents its plot through an inner dialogue between him and his acquaintances; and, although it strives for historical realism this work is still fiction derived from Barry Shabaka Henley's imagination. ...

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Morrison was not an ex-slave nor did she grow up in a family of ex-slaves, giving her no credibility in the factual information; she wrote this novel as a ghost story, which further withdrew from the sense of realism in the story. ...

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"The Bike" Choose a short story in which a technique (e.g symbolism) is used by the author and is ,in your view ,vital to the success of the text. Explain how the writer employs the technique and why, in your opinion, it is so important to your appreciatio...

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