Following the 1995 Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and two more Emmas, all before the end of 1996. ... The present study is specifically concerned with the perception aspects of a film adaptation by the example of Emma Thompson's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995, USA/UK) film adaptation. ... In 1995, Thompson not only wrote and acted in a film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, 'Sense and Sensibility', but also published the diaries that she kept during that time with the title "Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility: Screenplay and Diaries"(1...

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Northanger Abbey is a novel that is about more than a girl who is looking to find a husband. Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. ...

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In this sense, Patrick is delivered by Spark as manipulative, as he repeatedly wins over Alice's trust even after the many times she has been warned about him. However, his fellow bachelor and friend, Matthew, immediately knows that he has no moral sense. ... As Dorothea Walker states in Muriel Spark, "There is an indication that he is not quite normal in his perception of reality, which makes him head the list of Ronald's 'demons,' people who fail to do what is right....

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• Grade Level: High School

In an endeavor to find how the "Blues Aesthetic" interferes and interacts with the reader's perception of the novel, Cat Moses attempts to discover the necessity of the emotional content in The Bluest Eye. ... Moses allows us to understand his perception that Claudia's role as a storyteller is supported by the blues lyrics that punctuate the narrative at critical points, suggesting a folk knowledge mood. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hemingway has stated that "the main point of the work is under the surface," and this is certainly the case in the story, "Hills Like White Elephants," which alters the readers' perceptions of the story's meaning (Darzikola 9). ... Examining the relationship of the couple reveals that they may not be a couple in the relationship sense and rather just numerically, a pair. ...

• Word Count: 3072
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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". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of li...

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My father had blackened my perception of the world, and his sneering, sarcastic attitude toward everything had latched on to me. ... Even though Bret gives off a selfish vibe, it is very obvious to the reader that he has no sense of self worth. ...

• Word Count: 3723
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: High School