That is why the new aesthetic reality, which is giving birth in epic dialogue to the novelistic hero, - is not mutual relation and not symbiosis, but epiko-novelistic quality, endowing with epic weightiness the historically passing novelistic event and problematizing epic integrity. ... Historical consciousness is the consciousness giving the report in the historical nature. ... Since these "instants" before the reader's eyes, at his interested partnership as he is involved and willingly gives himself to involve in discussion of variants of developme...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Winton peppers the setting with colloquialism and Australian icons to give us the impression that the text is set in the Australian outback. ... Alice doesn't have a car and has to ask Mr Cherry to give her lifts to the city. ... Winton gives us this impression when Alice and Ort go to the accident, with Ort saying no one even looks at us when we pull up'. ... All of these factors about landscape can all be perceived in the first few chapters, revealing the significance of the landscape and how it is connected to Ort and how it reflects his state of mind. ... At the end of that ...

• Word Count: 3499
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School