More precisely, it falls into the category of the so-called Enchanted realism (Sheila A.Egoff, 1988) or the World between (Ruth Hill Viguers, 1959), which is rooted in reality but touches the gloomy and dreamy side of life. ... The characters in the story don't stay in enchanted realism too long, usually only for a short stretch of time in a day, or a year at most. In the course of enchanted realism, the shape of the character remains the same, however, his view on reality will change afterwards. In fact, this is the essence of this division of children's fantasy: Enchanted realism i...

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Ian Watt, author of The Rise of the Novel (1957) argues that one reason Fielding's novel is problematic is because the novel distances itself from the reader through the third person narration; the novel has lost some of its realism. If the criterion for realism is psychological verisimilitude, then yes, the novel Tom Jones has lost a realistic quality. ... Watt has set up the premise that in the eighteenth century the text of the novel must follow the guidelines of realism. ... Fielding's novel Tom Jones follows these minimal criteria; thus Fielding's novel is not in conflict w...

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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. By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, w...

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The novel can also be described as magical realism because the unexplained is never completely explained. ... What is the effect of the magical realism? ... There's no impending errors in this paragraph, but the analysis is a little brief. 4/5 Richard Matheson uses elements such as magical realism, irony, symbolism, allusions, and conflict to add depth and meaning to this novel I Am Legend. ...

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James Joyce's "Araby" is a short story drawn from Joyce's childhood in Dublin. Within this short story, the unnamed narrator tells the story of a seemingly short incident in a boy's life. This incident has actually brought about a realization or an epiphany of a truth about life that is more of real...

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Morrison was not an ex-slave nor did she grow up in a family of ex-slaves, giving her no credibility in the factual information; she wrote this novel as a ghost story, which further withdrew from the sense of realism in the story. ...

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Like water for chocolate "Like water for chocolate" can be broken down into the lives of two women, Tita De La Garza and her mother, Mama Elena. The type of interaction that Tita has with Mama Elena is the focus point in which the story is developed around. Though the story concentrates on Tita...

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"The Lesson,"" by Toni Cade Bambara and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily,"" both illustrate how effective characterization can shape a story and evoke a response from the reader. Characterization is the process by which writers create, reveal, or develop their characters. There are a variety of...

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Brian Ricketts Doctorow's novel, Welcome to Hard Times is an anti-western novel. Doctorow attempts to debunk the western myth of the American dream. The essential theme in the novel is that the west fails to live up to the hope that civilization can conquer evil. In this way, it was firs...

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1. "Fat" : a short story? According to van Gorp , a short story is a single-episode narrative with a limited number of characters. The descriptions of the setting and the character's evolutions are restricted. The writer focuses his attention on one character in an everyday situation, which implies...

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