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    Most writers of the Caribbean have been preoccupied by particular themes and have adhered to mutual tracks‚ while often contrasted in approach and writing. The possibility or impossibility of the account of one’s story‚ when the very concept of the individual has been crushed by slavery and colonisation‚ the circumstances of advent of a new Caribbean identity‚ the analysis of the past‚ writing in exile and lastly‚ landscape and nature: where the environment or surrounding tells the story‚ is an essential

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    Topic: Lawrence’s portrayal of Female characters D.H Lawrence‚ one of the most eminent writers of 20th century portrayed three women characters in ‘Sons and lovers’ whose tragedies lie in the fact that they only function as stones in Paul’s life. In the novel we see Mrs. Morel is pitifully diagnosed with Oedipus complex‚ which enables her to be a powerful hermaphrodite and gains access to power. Miriam we see is imprisoned by Victorian morality‚ but her world is not purely spiritual. Paul just

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    Throughout the novel‚ Atticus plays a central role in all of the major events‚ constituting as the moral backbone of the Maycomb society and the voice of reason for the oppressed. Lee writes Atticus as being very unorthodox for his time‚ and as being the person who will help usher in moral change into the Maycomb society. Due to time of writing‚ it seems that Lee presents the character of Atticus in such a way to impress upon the public that‚ like the Maycomb community‚ they should also review their

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     story  of  self-­‐healing  and  self-­‐enlightenment   as  we  watch  the  novel’s  protagonist‚  Billy‚  come  of  age.  (The  verse  novel   plays  on  aspects  of  the  bildungsroman  genre).   -­‐ The  verse  novel  is  written  in  the  first  person  allowing  the  reader  direct  access   to  the  characters’  thoughts  and  as  such‚  fostering  his

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    epic‚ with its hero battling against great odds‚ and the title (like that of Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 The Sun Also Rises) intimates the possibility of amelioration‚ of the dawn of a new era‚ of the potential for achievement. The novel is clearly a Bildungsroman‚ a story of the maturation of a youthful hero who sets goals for himself and overcomes disappointments and setbacks; furthermore‚ it is in the tradition of the social realist novel that depicts a section of working-class life in detail and with

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    Sexuality & Culture (2008) 12:240–256 DOI 10.1007/s12119-008-9035-9 ORIGINAL PAPER Sexual Subjectivity: A Semiotic Analysis of Girlhood‚ Sex‚ and Sexuality in the Film Juno Jessica L. Willis Published online: 27 September 2008 Ó Springer Science + Business Media‚ LLC 2008 Abstract Historical approaches to girlhood provide a basis for understanding changing cultural ideologies of sex‚ sexuality‚ and youth. While situating sexual desire‚ biological possibilities‚ and social responses to girls’

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    JEAN RHYS WIDE SARGASSO SEA. This essay will explore the post colonial text Wide Sargasso Sea. It will pay particular attention to the identity of the protagonist Antoinette Cosway‚ in Jean Rhys’ most popular book. It will explore the alienation and confused identity of Antoinette and whether this confusion was self inflicted or instigated by the actions of others. Wide Sargasso Sea is a text that is classed as‚ ‘re-visionary’ writing and this genre of literature will be explained by Peter Widdowson

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    The Heart’s Eternal Vow | The New York Times‚ 10 April 1988 A Review of Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of CholeraLove‚ as Mickey and Sylvia‚ in their 1956 hit single‚ remind us‚ love is strange. As we grow older it gets stranger‚ until at some point mortality has come well within the frame of our attention‚ and there we are‚ suddenly caught between terminal dates while still talking a game of eternity. It’s about then that we may begin to regard love songs‚ romance novels‚ soap operas

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    University of Rijeka Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of English Language and Literature THE SWINGING SIXTIES Student: Tea Schmidichen Course: English Language 2 Course Instructor: Irena Meštrović Štajduhar‚ M.Ed. Ac. Year: 2012/2013 The sixties were a time of rapid changes in all spheres‚ including fashion‚ music‚ literature‚ politics and sport. Everything was characterized by a revolution of some sort‚ either sexual revolution‚ political revolution or even revolution

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    UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000

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