What makes up Literature? Literature plays an important part in the educational world. ... I will attempt to explain the effects these elements have on literature. ... But the term is perhaps most commonly used to describe figurative language, which is as a theme in literature. ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ...

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An area to consider is how different writers emphasized literature's rise of modernization and society's feelings of isolation. ... In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... The rise of modernism in literature went alongside with the rise of the feeling of isolationism in the world. This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrat...

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Throughout the story we also read many reflexive comments on life, on literature, on the romance, on the relationship, and on fiction in general. ... Post-structuralists tend to focus on small details in a piece of literature. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see with what banal literary irony it all turns out or does not turn out at all." ...

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She includes many themes that relate back to religion in her literature pieces. ... In the story, O'Connor notes that she is always wearing a dress or a skirt so people in public would know she was a woman. ...

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O"Connor later, after noting that some faint-hearted readers found the ending too brutal, defended it in this way: "If I took out this gesture and what she says with it, I would have no story. ... Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading. ...

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Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""...

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