If after reading a random romance novel, you feel you have gained some educational value or you have put another piece of the puzzle into your life, then one can define such text as "literature". ... To a child, a simple piece of text or a short story is defined as "literature" because that child will grow from reading or having read to him or her text. Dah Chen's "Colors of the Mountains" is a valued piece of literature because within this text is his own personal memoir, the history of China, and growth from poverty. ... A text can only be defined by the reader themselves as being a g...

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While these differences are blatantly palpable, through character, plot and setting, the values, morals and messages conveyed through each text are essentially the same. ... Due to the form of the text, (i.e. it is a film) formally structured sentences and verbal language are not as imperative as they are in the novel Emma. ... The two texts are set apart from each other in the fact they are of two completely different textual forms. ... While there are many obvious differences between Austen's Emma and Heckerling's Clueless, both texts use similar characters with analogous value...

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Through Asher, who feels the sense of belonging towards Byron Bay, the effect that text types have on a story is explored, and through the use of the letter in the book the reader is shown personal emotions and feelings expressed within the contents. As highlighted above, through Guitar Highway Rose, the incorporation of belonging within fictional texts is able to be successfully explored showing the power which works of literature have with exploring universal themes of the human experience. ... The longing for freedom is also explored within the text through Rosie's character and her ne...

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Apocalypse Now The two texts have very different settings and when viewing Apocalypse Now with the knowledge that it was based on Heart of Darkness, the viewer is in a very pre- determined mind frame. ... The texts delve into the complexities of Marlow's character in equally intriguing ways. ... The two texts build up the character of Kurtz surrounded by such an air of mystery. ... The non- discriminatory characters as well as many bold ones such as Kilgore are living in a world where this power exists as a facade; as a result the closer people get to the inner station in the two t...

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She expresses these feelings within her text by using such terms as "rebellion" and "revolt" to show that she doesn't agree with the social restrictions of women. She contradicts later texts by Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe in their essay The American Woman's Home, by denouncing domestic feminism and domestic isolation within the home, and encouraging women to go out and stir it up. In the American Woman's Home text, Beecher argues in favor of the "physical and social separation of the population into the female-dominated sphere of home life and the male-dominat...

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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. ... Third is what he calls analogy which is markedly differs from the original text and is, as such, 'a different work of art'. ... Dudley Andrew, asserts that an adaptation is the 'appropriation of meaning from a prior text'. ... McFarlane thinks it is important to try to establish...

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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. ... Oudit points out the one or two scenes that Potter does transpose almost directly from the text, such as the "close-up of Queen Elizabeth's in the novel which later becomes just that in the film. ... It is important to note also that the ...

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Marele Day both challenges and conforms to the conventions of hard-boiled detective fiction in order to produce a feminist text that explores interesting ideas about power, corruption and life's facades. ... The literary elements of plot development, characterisation, setting and themes, combined with the characteristics of the text, allow the novel to conform to and challenge the classical approach of detective fiction while exploring interesting ideas about power, corruption and life's facades. ... Ultimately, Marele Day both challenges and conforms to the conventions of hard-boi...

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The text shows how the communities adapt and change throughout the novels, and the effect it has on the main character's families. Through comparing the text of both novels you can see the thematic similarities by pointing out the different progressions of the communities overall attitude through the novels using in-text citations, but also by providing outside input on the underlying role of community in both novels....

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The text is constructed as a first person narration from the adult of Jean-Louise Finch, in retrospect to when she was six. ... Constructing the text in the first person perspective, allows the reader to have a greater understanding of Scout and hence the ability to comprehend why she behaves the way she does. ... Lee is able to convey the prejudice attitudes by creating the lynch mob to be dark, mysterious and savage creatures who portray the role of the "evil" character, which is commonly seen in various texts. ...

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The Unsettled Acquaintance Setting is the foundation of any good piece of literature. Without it, misrepresentations of the different outlooks and views are easily made in a story and the underlying meaning may not be observed correctly. In the short story "Feeding the Piranha," Pamela Painter c...

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My favorite genre of literature is dystopian fiction, and it is from the genre I developed sincere admiration for George Orwell's 1984. In literature written today, the criteria for inclusion in the traditional English cannon includes the most well-known pieces of laic English literature that serve ...

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Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. While the film can be easily be passed as a regular ' popular- teen flick merely for entertainment purposes, an understandi...

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In "Frankenstein" and "Brave New World," there is much debate over who the real monster is in each of these stories. While some readers argue it's the creation and the savage, others arduously contest this by saying Frankenstein and Mustapha Mond are the true behemoths, but both of these opinions ar...

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As a young man, Flaubert was well aware of incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class "lip service", which her portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary, and began to despise the mendacity of middle class all the more as he embraced the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, a...

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The essay will further examine the similarities and differences between the literary text and the film adaptation through a consideration of the variations on the original (style and content), and how these variations in the adaptation change the meaning and effect of the original. ...

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The reader can clearly discern Raskolnikov's instability of mind – perhaps even insanity – prior to, during, and after the murder while analyzing the text, and while he feels no guilt nor remorse under his theory after murdering the landlady and her sister, his insanity is accentuated by his consternation of getting discovered for murder. ...

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The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's close friendship with Helen, Jeanette's amorous tryst with Melanie and the apparent hatred b...

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In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

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Didactic Fiction in Alcott's Little Women And Barrie's Peter Pan On the surface, children's literature appears to be very straightforward and light-hearted, failing to carry within a particular story any deeper inherent meaning "the language is simplistic, there's a limited viewpoint, and charac...

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Direct vs Indirect Threats In the human heart, danger represents fear, stimulating either a selfless or selfish response. The role of different types of danger drives humanity to react in a particular way, and in the two apocalyptic novels, On the Beach by Nevil Shute and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main characters live out their last days after a global nuclear war and an unexplained apocalyptic event respectively with unique reactions to the threats. Through the analysis of the first novel and the last novel discussed in the course, the concept of hope will be examined interactive...

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The term "Frankenstein" has undergone sequences of alterations, and an elongated lifetime than its carrier, Victor Frankenstein. The memoir of the title can likewise be perceived as more intensely appealing than that of the expert scientist. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, has certainly origin...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (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 was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to ...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (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 was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated ...

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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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