February 11‚ 2013 Feminist Literary Theory History of Female Writing * Before the 20th century‚ there were very few female writers * Most were from the 18th-19th century * Back then‚ writing was seen as an important task * Hence the reason why writing was a “male task” * Women had a lack of authority * Plenty of male literature * Male bias‚ stereotypes Waves of Feminism 1. Late 1700s – early 1900s * Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights
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broke the fourth wall and this enabled them to add a realistic dimension to their heavily fantastical plays. By humorously breaking the fourth wall‚ the audience is deliberately made aware that they are watching the play. This is a technique of metafiction and its purpose is to capture the audience’s attention and remind them of their serious messages in a humorous manner. Mockery is a tool for Aristophanes and Shakespeare to portray the root of problems faced in society. The blame falls on both
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years. Love Medicine is set in North Dakota on an Indian reservation known as Turtle Mountain. Although the novel is fiction‚ the cultural‚ social‚ and economical aspects depicted are very realistic. Hertha Sweet Wong describes Love Medicine as “Metafiction‚ ironically self-conscious in its mode of telling‚ concerned as much with exploiting the process of storytelling as with the story itself.” (35) Erdrich’s Love Medicine is not so much based on plot as on several key relationships. These relationships
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into one another. Eventually‚ the events taking place in the story are intermingled‚ actual importance is lost‚ and the meaning is completed by an untailored disposition. The story is incredibly experimental and perhaps the utmost example of Metafiction. City of Glass can be compared to Don Delillo’s White Noise in that both are considered postmodern fiction‚ and have some basic similarities (though not on the surface level.) While White Noise is more related to the interdependence of characters
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Significance of Honesty Michael Ondaatje a Sri Lankan born Canadian novelist and poet is known for his writings The English Patient‚ In the Skin of a Lion and his many poems. During In the Skin of a Lion he adopts the cubist approach to the novel by breaking the story up into fragments each told from their own point of view. Each fragment is a memory taken from the characters to express their voice. The collections of vignettes not only give their authors honest opinion of their actions and their
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University of Bouzareah Faculty of Letters and Languages Departement of English RESEARCH PAPER PREPARED ON : An Overview of the American Literary Periods Submited by : YAHIAOUI HAMDOUD ALANE Academic Year: 2012 / 2013 Early American Fiction (1492-1789) Literature is told through the oral tradition. Works largely consist of origin myths‚ legends‚ chants‚ and other stories. Spiritual forces show up in water‚ land‚ animals‚ etc. which shows a major theme in
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The term subaltern alludes to any individual or group of inferior rank and station‚ may be for race‚ class‚ sex‚ gender‚ ethnicity or religion. It is the social group who is socially‚ politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial country. It is derived from the social authority or hegemonic work of Antonio Gramsci‚ which distinguished the social groups who are excluded from a general society’s set up structures for political representation
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After Dark By Haruki Murakami “After Dark is a streamlined‚ hushed ensemble piece...Standing above the common gloom‚ Murakami detects phosphorescence everywhere‚ but chiefly in the auras around people‚ which glow brightest at night and when combined.” (The New York Times Book Review) The appraisal given by The New York Times undoubtedly highlights how the characters in the story of Haruki Murakami weave their lives together in just one night. The characters in this novel have established deeper
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INTRODUCTION The economic contraction in the 1930s‚ propelled by the collapse of the economies in industrialised states‚ had a ripple effect on the small vulnerable economies of the Caribbean. During the 1930s‚ the region started to experience economic recessions due to a decline in exports. The repercussions were even greater for those countries locked into monocrop production and dependent on the trade relations that existed between them and the developed countries of Europe and the U.S. The
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period that the piece takes place in. You must take into account the culture and context of a story‚ only then can you truly understand the symbols‚ allusions‚ and metaphors intended to give insight. In Tim Obrien’s “The Things They Carried” he uses metafiction and extensive lists of symbolic
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