Pulp Fiction‚ is considered by many to be a key example of post modernist cinema. Its use of non-linear narration‚ copious references to other movies and its off beat dialogue‚ combined with Tarantino’s unique style make the viewer aware that there is something different about this movie from most Hollywood blockbusters. George Ritzer said that "in the modern world everything seems pretty clear-cut‚ (but) on the cusp of the postmodern world many things seem quite hazy." This is the case with regard
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Gregory L. Baize‚ Sr. In Partial Completion for ENG 102 D04 201130 Professor Robinson July 10‚ 2011 Thesis Statement Comparative study of Graham Greenes ’ "The Destructors" and Shirley Jackson ’s "The Lottery." Both stories are great work of paralleled irony for different reasons. In "The Destructors‚" life ’s decisions are convoluted in a much different way‚ one may say they are the same as in The Lottery‚ but they are not. In "The Lottery‚" life ’s decisions appear
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has a strong effect on the way readers perceive the story. The role of a narrator includes deciding how a reader might be involved in regards to the story’s events. In William Faulkner’s short story titled A Rose for Emily and Ghassan Kanafani’s narrative titled The Land of Sad Oranges‚ the narrators play a vital role by drawing the reader into the story‚ declaring the involvement of the reader‚ and directing what the reader will attend to throughout the story. One of the arguably most important
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Maria Anwar M. Phil Literature – 2nd Presentataion on “Persepolis as a postmodern fiction” What makes Persepolis a Postmodern Fiction? A mix of High art and popular culture: Marjane Satrapi’s ’’Persepolis’’ is the latest and one of the most palatable examples of a postmodern genre‚ an autobiographical novel in form of a comic-book which tells the history of Iran from Marjane’s point of view. Persepolis is a postmodern graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between popular culture and high art
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Science fiction is a genre that is based on “imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes” that can challenge and disrupt traditional perspectives of morality and behaviour. Each science fiction text explores but one of the numerous possibilities of the speculative and extrapolative ideas‚ with the author’s own views being placed throughout the text both intentionally and unintentionally. The genre concerns itself with the understanding of both
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Prospero in his boat‚ with his books and wand about him‚ suffers himself to be ……………….. away at the mercy of his enemies to an unknown island. He might have ……………….. a storm or two‚ we think‚ on the passage. His acquiescence is in ……………….. analogy to the non-resistance of witches to the constituted powers. -- What ……………….. the Fiend in Spenser from tearing Guyon to pieces -- or who had made it a condition of his prey‚ that Guyon must take ………………. of the glorious bait -- we have no guess. We do not know
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fantasies’.1 They are stereotyped into vacuous roles such as the romantic interest‚ damsel in distress and femme fetale. Female characters are given little to no agency by white male writers and this is overt in 20th century hard-boiled American crime fiction. In the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler‚ female characters exist only to serve as foils to re-emphasize the hyper-masculinity of the Continental Op and Phillip Marlowe‚ their respective detective protagonists. I put emphasise on the
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change of Indian fiction in English. The form of Indian novel in English has become more open‚ more playful‚ and more concerned. All the credit aptly goes to the gifted‚ stupendous‚ and extraordinary creative genius‚ Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. He‚ indeed‚ took all the pains to make novel a genre in Indian writing in English. He began to write Rajmohan’s Wife‚’ the first Indian Novel in English‚ in the year 1864. It was his initial and tentative attempt as literary genre to fiction based on a Victorian
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The question is whether it is possible to distinguish between fantasy and true science fiction. I am reminded of the analogy‚ attributable I believe‚ to Theodore Sturgeon‚ of the elf ascending vertically the side of a brick wall. In a science fiction story the knees of the elf would be bent‚ his center of gravity thrown forward‚ his stocking cap hanging down his neck‚ with his feet quite possibly equipped with some form of suction cups. In a fantasy‚ on the other hand‚ the elf would simply stride
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Week Nine Short Story Assignment What is the symbolic significance of the wheel? The symbolic significance of the wheel is of the man in having control over the wheel‚ thus‚ he has control over his own life and his own death. The wheel represents the man’s destiny and his inability to control it. The narrator states‚ “As the wheel increased its speed it seemed to draw him more and more into its power‚ as though it held his fate – He could not stop it now. So let it be” (231). He refuses to
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