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Quot So It Goes Quot Kurt Vonnegut First
360 wordsThis first chapter, a preface, is insistent on the fact that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like our narrator, is a veteran of World War II, a former prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre, and that fact lends a certain authority to what follows. Vonnegut shares with us his enduring inability to render in writing the horror of Dresden. There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, yet he feels the need to say something. The book unabashedly charts the authors str...
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William Faulkner Sentence Structure
599 wordsWilliam Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy are known for their unusual, yet honest, styles of writing. Using a variety of sentence structure, vocabulary, and syntax, the two authors allow readers to explore deeper into the true meanings behind the well-told story lines. In Faulkner s The Unvanquished and McCarthy s All the Pretty Horses, these techniques, which parallel and contrast each other, are very apparent and convey messages to the reader that help to express the passage of boyhood into manhood...
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Cinema Repertory Anthology Essential Cinema Repertory Anthology Film
390 wordsAnthology Film Archives evolved from roots and visions that go back to the early Sixties, when Jonas Means, the director of the Film-Makers Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent / avant -garde films could be shown on a regular basis. Anthology maintains that the art of film must be defined in terms of selected works which indicate its essence and its possibilities. In addition to the Essential Cinema R...
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Hughes Culture Common
209 wordsA folktale is a general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural and universal tradition, common to primitive and complex societies alike. Folktales are demonstrably similar from culture to culture, and comparative studies of themes and narrative techniques have been successful in showing these relationships. Fairy tales are entirely fictional and often begin with such formulas as? Once upon a time. Which is not the case in most...
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People Who Lived Frankenstein Monster
869 wordsThe novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is an excellent example of the Romantic Movement. The movement took place in the period from the late 1700 s to the mid- 1800; it emphasized passion rather than reason and imagination and intuition rather than logic. One of the key concepts most Romantic writers used was, nature is a source of inspiration. They believed that people who lived in an industrialized area were unhappy because the environment around them was not full of the beautiful gifts of na...
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Joyce Carol Oates Studies In Short Fiction
1,409 words? Friend or Foe? ? ? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? , is one of the many short stories written by Mrs. Joyce Carol Oates that has become highly recognized. It was inspired by a magazine story about a serial killer. It quickly it became very popular anyway even the basis for the 1985 hit movie, ? Smooth Talk? . Like many other short stories and novels written by Joyce Carol Oates, ? Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is a story that is consumed by evil, the theme. In the story e...
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Great Expectations Real Life
1,379 wordsThe very title of this book indicates the confidence of conscious genius. In a new aspirant for public favor, such a title might have been a good device to attract attention; but the most famous novelist of the day, watched by jealous rivals and critics, could hardly have selected it, had he not inwardly felt the capacity to meet all the expectations he raised. I have read it as it appeared in installments, and can testify to the felicity with which expectation was excited and prolonged, and to ...
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Heart Of Darkness Point Of View
1,210 wordsHeart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad Setting: The author placed the novel s setting on a stream boat on a river near London. The Nellie, arising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest (1). Then the narrator tells his story in a flash back which he tells about Marlow s experiences in the African jungle specifically on the Congo river. The majority of the story is told in flash back about the voyage in tothe heart of darkness. Characters: The central character is ...
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Town People Reader To Understand
1,210 wordsThe ending in the novel Hetty Dorval written by Ethel Wilson the ending that is created appears to have little narrative closure to the reader. However, there is the idea that the ending could be symbolic and relate to other aspects of the novel. Upon a first reading the ending is not entirely satisfying, yet once one looks at the minute details that are present in the ending a sense of reflection and realization of the truth in this novel takes place. The ending in Hetty Dorval when first read ...
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Homer Man Named
878 words? The Odyssey? is one of only a few epics still in existence today. An epic is a long narrative poem which focuses on the lives and struggles of a great hero or heroes. Homer used many literary techniques to make his poetry more fully understood. He was very versed in his Greek gods and uses them as great heroes. ? The Odyssey? was written approximately 2500 years ago. Top scholars have spent much time attempting to confirm who created these epics, ? The Odyssey? and? The Iliad? , when they were...
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Read And Write Iliad And The Odyssey
1,079 wordsHomeric Poems: Oral or Written Tradition Homer. A name synonymous with Greek literature and poetry. Some call him the most famous and greatest poet of the Greek society. Known for his masterpieces of western literature the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homers poems have been passed down through generations and studied by many. But how did the translations, if they are, infact, the true Homeric poems, get to where they are today? Dating as far back as 1120 B. c. , the poems may have gone through a drama...
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Mark Twain End Of Chapter
1,520 wordsNarrative Voices in Huck Finn- Huckleberry Finn provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain? s novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerford's? world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerford's in darkness, lost from Jim and the raft. The family, after some initial cross-examination, welcomes, feeds a...
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Eva Man Incarcerated For Murder Women
718 wordsThe Theme Behind the Novel While reading the novel Eva? s Man, written by Gayle Jones, an evident theme is established. This is a twisted story of love and betrayal in the engrossing psychological portrait of Eva Medina Canada. The author intertwines recollection of actual events and imaginativeness to expose an existence plagued by sexual and emotional revilement. It is a narrative which will definitely remain in one? s mind, long after the cover of the book has been closed. The apparent theme ...
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Nature Of Man Gulliver Travels
841 wordsRational Man: A critique and analysis of R. S. Cranes interpretive essay on Book IV of Swifts Gulliver's Travels Since its first publication nearly three hundred years ago, Jonathan Swifts satirical prose Gulliver's Travels has been the subject of a wide variety of literary critique and social interpretation. Although many readers, at first glance, take this tale to be simply a fantastic narrative of a common man and his encounters with unusual locations and people through several journeys, furt...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 wordsChina, Korea, and Japan have been historically close for centuries, thus accounting for their numerous common artistic traditions. From pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th century AD, the great trade routes crossed from the Middle East through Central Asia into China. Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered into China, and thence in time into Korea and Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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Post Civil War E L Doctorow
1,145 wordsLiterary Criticisms on The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow Literary Criticisms (mostly book reviews) on the novel The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow focus on different topics. One talks of the author and his style in writing the novel. Another describes Doctorow's love for New York city, which can be seen throughout the pages of his various novels. There is one that discusses the aspects of Utopia in the novel. Also, The New Yorker has an interview with him discussing his work. Ted Solotaroff, in Th...
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Toni Morrison Paul D
960 wordsThe idea of a ghost story or horror story has long since been introduced into the world of American literature starting in the late 18 th century. These works played with the idea of life after death and its effects on the present. The term gothic or gothic horror has been used to describe this form of literature. The literary meaning of the gothic style of is hard to define, but to give it a simple meaning the gothic is when the supernatural encounters the natural. In the novel Beloved by Toni ...
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Caught Off Balance Stannard
718 wordsLove among the graves Courting Shadows by Jem Poster 278 pp, Sceptre I had expected bones, of course, though not in such abundance. As first lines go, its a good one. Eleven unassuming little words, but so seductive, dramatic and drenched with implication. What bones? And why expected, and why so many? And who is this person anyway, so suddenly compelled to share this sinister observation with us? If great openings are meant to make the reader turn the page, lets just say I turned it and kept on...
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Point Of View Dead Man
1,289 wordsDead man leading To the Last City by Colin Thubron 168 pp Chat &# 163; 14. 99 Unlike his coeval among travel writers, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron has never had the acclaim for his fiction that he deserves. To point it out bluntly like this reinforces the impression of inexplicable failure, but I am constantly astonished when admirers of his melancholy, passionate travel books express surprise to learn that Thubron has written novels at all. They should check out at least, among his six previous ...
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Takes The Earrings Madame Des Camera
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