Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Asked about his "sense of audience," Mistry responds rather grandly, "I suppose the world is my audience," then qualifies the claim by adding "At least, I wish it" (146). To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and fo...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Asked about his "sense of audience," Mistry responds rather grandly, "I suppose the world is my audience," then qualifies the claim by adding "At least, I wish it" (146). To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and fo...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The epos, inducing its hero develops in that world epoch when life and destiny, adventures and ñåøåíe, life and essence turn to equal concepts. ... The reader of the novel intuitively waits from the uncompleted and consequently, the imperfect novelistic hero, the acts, which on forces only to the person who has been given birth by the epic condition of the world. ... The author of the realistic novel subcontracts objectivating and finishing functions of the experienced historical regularity whereas the author of the romantic novel subordinates to their ...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Eco, 1984) Eco explains how the historical fiction writer must become immersed in historical evidence: to tell a story, "you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." ... Or using Adso's description, between those who cognitively map their worlds according to "very rigid structures, in which representation is minimally responsive to the operational environment and maximally specified by the selective values of the cognizer" and those who cognitively map their world according to a "very flexible" structure "in which representation...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Further upholding his moral integrity and spiritual perspective on life, Crusoe comments on his list, saying, "Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positiv to be thankful for in it." ... He states, "In the first place, I was remov'd from all the wickedness of the world here. ... Crusoe supports this notion in saying that "the most covetous miser in the world would have been cur'd of the vice of covetousness, if he had been in my case." Defoe uses Crusoe's isol...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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". ... Reading was and still is a dominant pastime for civilizations world wide and is constantly evolving in correlation to the occurrences of society of it's time. ... These stories create an entire new world for readers and explores fictional people/circumstances from a "realistic" lens that they can or cannot relate to in a completely different way than they have ever before. ... Crane ex...

• Word Count: 3767
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate