E.M Forster's widely admired novel "Howard's End," provides a detailed portrayal of life in Edwardian England; a series of characters exposed as if under a literary microscope. ... The era is now associated with the birth of 'modernism'; a time of artistic and literary progression, as well as social and human transformation. ... There would be no trains, no ships to carry [...] literary people about in, no fields even.' ... This formal feature is a characteristic of modernist technique, and it implicates that something's are unknown, a symbolic perspective for ...

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Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. ... The authors of "Gender of Narration - write: "She abandoned the realist techniques which were the characteristic of her predecessors by structuring her work according to the style in contemporary painting. ... One more aspect which I further in the text will consider more deeply is the technique of the stream of consciousness that (together with an omniscient narrator, the conventional order of chrono...

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Instead of a recognizable genre, lesbian literary narrative, is in reality, a disputed form, dependent on various interpretive strategies." ... Cather's clever insertion of her initial as the snake "was lying in long loose waves, like a letter 'W'" forms a literary technique she perhaps used to inform her readers on her lesbian position. ... Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to recognize the possibility of disruptive plots and spaces that position women as subjects of their own stories." ...

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In a situation where the reader does not have "direct access to a character´s [inner] thoughts and feelings (Edmondson 20), other than in traditional novels where the literary minds are transparent and the reader knows everything about them. ... As already mentioned in the beginning, Virginia Woolf uses this narrative technique on purpose because she wants to put the reader in a real life situation where it depends on himself on which accounts he attaches great importance, and consequently what opinion he forms of a certain character. ...

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Prose study. In order to compare the literary styles of Dickens and Hardy I will use 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens and 'The Withering Arm' by Thomas Hardy. 'The Signalman' features a lonely train signalman who works in signal box by a railway cutting. He has been visited by a "spectre" whi...

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This imagery, detail and narrative technique helps to create a clear sense of realism and also a better understand the new emerging, frightening, thoughts that begin to whirl around inside the narrators mind; when his love for the girl begins to overpower his love for God and commitment to the Catholic church. ...

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It renders the idea of perspectivism, the fact of story - telling, which undermine the literary well-known conventions. ... Then follow the technique of postponing and of ambiguity: "he had broken a thickness of ice, the formation of many a winter; had had his reasons for a long silence. ... The frequency of the verbs "I remember", "I think", "I suppose", "I believe" brings forward the technique of ambiguity: the sentences challenge doubt and uncertainty. ...

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