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    Chronotope in the Novel” states “A literary work’s artistic unity in relationship to an actual reality is defined by its Chronotope” In a chronotope‚ Bakhtin claims‚ “spatial and temporal marks are fused into a meaningful and concrete whole. Time here thickens‚ grows denser‚ becomes artistically visible; likewise‚ space becomes more intense and drawn into the movement of time‚ plot‚ history" A chronotope is therefore‚ a method of "artistically assimilating time and space in the novel‚ and thus for

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    American Ethnic Literature Gerald Washington ENG/301 4/15/2013 Julie Kares American ethnic Literature What makes American literature American? When we talk about American literature we are talking about incorporating the story of an American piece. The makeup of the American values includes the rights to liberty‚ justice‚ equality‚ freedom‚ love‚ and family. American literature authors will use these values in their stories. American is well known for their short stories. When we speak of American

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    American literature is any written work of art that is created in the United States. American literature is like all literature‚ it has literary experiences and contextual history of America. It depicts how America has changed is still changing today. American literature has changed over time just like most canons of literary works. The uniqueness of American literature is that America from its beginning had a special philosophy of life and freedom. The special philosophy of life and freedom that

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    feelings dwelling in me. I found salvation in teaching myself how to express ‘no’ as a part of speech and mostly within‚ not without. But Daniel Clowes did not seem to care much about censorship while writing “Ghost World”‚ one of the best graphic novels about adolescence and its mechanism of defense. Nor Terry Zwigoff did while directing the film adaptation with the same title. He actually enriched the story by adding “Lolita” plots‚ while Clowes only referred to individuals of the same age falling

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    Patriarchy in Conduct Literature 4 1.3. The Private Sphere as Woman’s Domain. 5 1.4. Characteristics of ideal female features 6 1.5. Conduct Manuals and the Novels 9 2. Romantic Novels. 11 2.1. Introduction to the Novel. 11 2.2. The Novel of Manners‚ Sentiment and Emulation. 12 2.3 The Gothic Romance. 13 3. Jane Austen and Her Novels in relation to the Contemporary Literature. 15 3.1. Austen’s Criticism about the Contemporary Fiction. 15 3.2. Jane Austen as a Conservative Writer and as a

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    Naturalism in American Literature The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism‚ which focuses on literary technique‚ naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalistic writers‚ since human beings are‚ in Emile Zola’s phrase‚ "human beasts‚" characters can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings. Zola’s 1880 description of this method in Le

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    From the novel you have studied‚ what is the most important lesson you have learnt? Support your answer with close reference to the text. GUIDELINES • Name the novel and the author that you have chosen • Think of a lesson you have learnt after reading the novel • State the characters and the hardships they go through that have an impact on you • Explain how the story affects you • Use evidence from the novel to support your answer ------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE

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    English Argumentative essay The novel‚ “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ focuses on a woman named Janie Crawford and her adventure for love and her struggle for independence. Since both of Janie’s parents were not in her life‚ she is forced to live with her grandmother. One day‚ Janie meets

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    Critical analysis of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy is on of the brightest representatives of English realism at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century. At that time‚ a new stage in the development of the English literature began‚ characterized with the conflict between the supporters of realism and the new modernist artistic directions. He learned from his predecessors to raise important and interesting problems‚ to tell interesting stories ‚ to portray

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    Key Facts full title ·  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time author · Mark Haddon type of work · Novel genre · Mystery novel; Family drama; Children’s book language · English time and place written · Early 2000s‚ Oxford‚ England date of first publication · 2003 publisher · Vintage Contemporaries‚ a division of Random House Publishing Inc. narrator · The novel’s mildly autistic protagonist‚ Christopher John Francis Boone‚ narrates in the first-person. point of view · Christopher

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