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. ... 'A number of critics [have] read Howard's End as a 'conditions of England' novel, a fictional expression of popular anxieties' (Peppis: 47), and I would agree that it fits many of the characteristics of this genre and can certainly be understood as 'a national allegory' (Peppis: 47) that serves to unfol...

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An Analysis of the Dream Visions Depicted in Pearl and Solaris The medieval poem, Pearl, and the science fiction drama, Solaris, offer two uniquely similar takes on the "dream vision" genre. ... Pearl, like Solaris, is often debated as being a "consolation," a "primarily didactic" work within the dream vision genre that adapts certain narrative conventions of that genre to make the work function as an allegory (Prior 21). ... Of the many conventions the dream vision genre possesses, only six of them are distinctly present in both narratives: A description or rendering of the narrator f...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." Marilyn Farwell offers a detailed response to the complicated genre of lesbian literature. Farwell recognizes the need to "read against the grain" in order to establish the encoded meanings and forms in lesbian writing that are not clearly placed across a fictional tale. ... Cather's choice to use a male voice in narrating her story was perhaps because she was essentially writing about male orientated feelings and events. ... " Cather does th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate