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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But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. ... Such is the complexity of children's literature. ... This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... So whi...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". ... That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. ... Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... Reading is a muse and escape for many just like many other forms of the arts; modern writers s...

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Written in 1931, The Waves 's unique structure and delivery establishes its place in history as a memorable piece of literature. ... Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... I look forward to continuing the novel for the class, and appreciate the exposure to great piece of literature....

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Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. ... The relationship between Jane and Helen is often a shelter for the characters, a place away from the rest of the world away from their problems, something that I have noticed across literature that explores female relationships. ...

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By comparing and contrasting these two adventure novels, readers can learn how the authors affected the future of the action-adventure genre of literature. ... "And speaking of the Bible, it is interesting to note that while the devil is alluded to twenty times in Treasure Island, the Savior is never mentioned," (LeVay, 1989). ... It seems as though these early authors of the genre have started a tradition of compelling and complex characters and plots, and their influence will continue to shape the direction of action-adventure literature for many years to come...

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Rob Irr Mr. Czmerda Honors English 10 Poor Boys In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the French girl's remark, "the war- great sadness- poor boys" is true of the events described in the novel in many respects because of the future hopes and dreams the men lost, the youth and innocen...

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While for a hypertextual work this porosity forms an essential ingredient in the whole process, for a traditional piece of literature I found this method very unsettling. ... Instead of using quotation marks, the editor of this particular version chose to note speech with smaller fonts, indentation, and different spacing. ... However, I would just like to briefly note that I do enjoy reading fiction that is created specifically for the medium of hypertext. ...

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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. ... In attempting to explain the differences between Virginia Woolf's Orlando and her own, Potter states, "So I made various changes with my heart in my mouth, as one does when dealing with a great classic of literature. ... It is important t...

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Despite this common thread throughout contemporary fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham choose to add a twist to this common theme in modern literature. ... It is a very strange twist that both authors have added to modern literature, because suicide is generally seen as a negative thing, while in these two novels it is seen as a positive thing; an escape from the tortures of everyday life. ... Septimus knew that his life would never get any better than it was right now and just decided to end it on that high note. ...

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They ask the DeLillos and the Updikes and the Styrons, but they don't ask popular novelists."1 The above quote aptly illustrates the incredible bias that exists in academia today regarding popular literature. ... Popular literature is usually read for escapism. ...

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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. ... Film makers are not known for offering such blunty commerical reasons for making particular adaptations, and, while the writing of the adaptation is itself is a creative undertaking, writers of adaptations rarely announce innovative or bold approaches to their subject matter, tending instead toward cau...

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The following two pieces of literature, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, share the common theme of change and transition. ... In the beginning of the book, she notes that because of his old age, father isn't like the other dads in her town. ...

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How are both Stoker and Shelley able to horrify their readers, not through graphic violence but through images of the loss of humanity, in Stoker's Dracula' and Shelley's Frankenstein'? In both novels we get a sense of a loss of humanity with the characters, but of which characters? The monsters, in this case Count Dracula and Frankenstein's creation, or the people around these monsters'. But what I want to find is what makes us, as readers, horrified. Because both novels do not depict very violent or gory scenes but yet we still find them quite horrifying...

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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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