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 strived to outvie the romantic perspective from literature by conquering fictional literature with modern influence. ... The protagonist, Emma Bovary is a naive romantic, constantly searching for someone in her life to provide her what she has limited herself to believe is an ideal love life and lifestyle. Her ignoran...

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The dialogical novel is one of versions of the novel of XX century, distinguishing it as from the traditional "realistic" novel, explaining the sense hidden in event, and from the traditional "romantic" novel, explaining in a plot the developed in consciousness of the author gnosiological model of the world. In the "realistic" novel the reader deals with plot objectivation, and in "romantic" - with subject. The author of the realistic novel subcontracts objectivating and finishing functions of the experienced historical regularity whereas the author of the romantic novel subordinates t...

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In Northanger Abbey, Austen intended to reflect a contrast between a normal, healthy-natured girl and the romantic heroines of fiction thorough the use of characterization. By portraying the main character, Catherine Moreland, as a girl slightly affected with romantic notions, Jane Austen exhibits the contrast between the world as it is and the world as imagined by the romancers whom she wished to ridicule. ... They lived their life through this romantic framework in their head and did not stray from it. ...

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Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven t...

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