Hannah Reed November 6‚ 2013 Exploring Markus Zusak’s use of Death as a Narrator in The Book Thief Word Count: 3‚496 Abstract The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death who tells the story of Liesel Meminger. The reader can learn a lot about Death through his narration. Consequently this essay focuses on the question: what effect may Death’s narration in The Book Thief have on the reader and what does the reader learn about Death? Death is a metafictional and
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Literary Criticism of Don DeLillo "It’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. When you try to unravel something you’ve written‚ you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery‚ in part." --Don DeLillo‚ from the 1979 interview with Tom LeClair There are a number of books and essays which are devoted to analysis of Don Delillo’s writing. This page concentrates on the books only (for the most part)‚ with most recent on top. The best online bibliography
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New Haven: Yale University Press‚ 1979. Hussey‚ Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students‚ Teachers and Common Readers to Her Life‚ Work and Critical Reception. New York: Facts on File‚ 1995. Hutcheon‚ Linda. "Historiographic Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History." Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Patrick O ’Donnell and Robert Con Davis. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 1989. 3-32. Iser‚ Wolfgang. "Interaction between
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Introduction There is currently a large scholarly literature exists on all aspects of political Islam in the Middle East‚ but it is very rarer to see any explicit theorizing intended at explaining the Islamist revival in the Middle East and remains partially unexplained despite a number of theories seeking explanation for its growth and popular appeal. In general‚ most theories contend that Islamist revival in the Middle East is a retort to relative deprivation ‚ especially social inequality and
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Postmodernism‚ Hyperreality and the Hegemony of Spectacle in New Hollywood: The Case of The Truman Show Michael Kokonis After the screening of The Matrix on its first release‚ a dear cousin of mine‚ film connoisseur and avid fan of classical movies‚ spontaneously made the following comment: “This is an entirely new cinema to me!” If anything‚ The Matrix is a clear marker of cultural change. A film with state-of-the-art production values like this is bound to elicit in us the belated realization
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MAPS AND HISTORY: MAPS AS SOURCE MATERIAL FOR EUROPEAN ARCTIC HISTORY IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. by Thor B. Arlov 1 INTRODUCTION In one of A.A. Milne’s books about Winnie-the-Pooh Christopher Robin takes his good friend the bear on an expedition: 2 «We’re going to discover the North Pole.» «Oh!» said Pooh again. «What is the North Pole?» he asked. «It’s just something you discover‚» said Christopher Robin carelessly‚ not being quite sure himself. Now‚ as it turned out‚ they did
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WU ZETIAN ’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TANG DYNASTY By Rui Wang A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto © 2008 by Rui Wang ABSTRACT Wu Zetian ’s Contribution to the Cultural Development of the Tang Dynasty Rui Wang Master of Arts Thesis‚ November 2008 Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This thesis represents cross-section of sources
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self‐reflexive ▶ A term applied to literary works that openly reflect upon their own processes of artful composition. Such self‐referentiality is frequently found in modern works of fiction that repeatedly refer to their own fictional status (see metafiction). The narrator in such works [...] is sometimes called a self-conscious narrator’. Self-reflexivity may also be found often in poetry. (Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms‚ 3rd ed.) The Author’s Note III “That’s what fiction is about‚ isn’t
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information. The line ‘Gatsby turned out alright at the end’ creates an atmosphere of mystery and this is not dissipated by Nick which creates excitement as the reader expects the novel will supply answers. Form- The novel takes the form of a metafiction narrative as the narrator is aware he is writing a novel. This is shown throughout the novel and is shown in chapter 1 says ‘only Gatsby the man who gave his name to this book’ showing that Nick is aware he is writing a novel which may create the
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Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving‚ they start lurking‚ and stare. They are born watchers. They are viewers. They are the ones on the subway about whose nonchalant stare there is something creepy‚ somehow. Almost predatory. This is because human situations are writers ’ food. Fiction writers watch other humans sort of the way gapers slow down for car wrecks: they covet a vision of themselves as witnesses. But fiction
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