An analysis of the novel Nightwood‚ by Djuna Barnes‚ and Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr and Miss Skeene‚ provides us with a method of understanding the representation of sexuality in these examples of ‘lesbian literature’. Rather than engage with these two texts through simple literary appreciation‚ it is important to interrogate the ways that sexuality can be used as a means for expression‚ both cultural and personal. An even deeper analysis will reveal the ways in which terms such as ‘lesbian literature’
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Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 postmodern novel ‘In The Skin Of a Lion’ has shaped and given new meanings when viewed in depth from different perspectives. Through Ondaatje’s continuous ideas on identity and history‚ through his language and form‚ this novel continues to be studied in various contexts. The use of poetic language and cellular structure has allowed him to create a piece of literature‚ ‘never again will a single story be told the same as this one’‚ which is unique and everlasting. In The
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coped with the deaths he experienced in war‚ “But ths too is true: stories can save us.... They’re all dead. But in a story‚ which is kind of dreaming‚ the dead sometimes smile and sit uo and return to the world.” (p.799) The author story tells‚ metafiction‚ to keep those that have lost their lives from truly dying. Through the form of story he keeps them living and although these are stories of fiction‚ to the author it is preserving their
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Two of John Green most famous novels‚ The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns‚ share a common theme which is ’literature’. The theme of literature and writing‚ especially in the plot around meeting Peter Van Houten‚ lends an element of metafiction to the book. One of the poems specifically referenced in Paper Towns‚ which gives insight into Margo Roth Spiegelman and provides Quentin with plenty to think about‚ is "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman‚ which comes from Leaves of Grass. In The Fault In
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When the main character is under circumstances where he is lost at sea and fighting for his life the reader immediately thinks of archetypal survival novels such as Robinson Crusoe or Shipwrecked. Yann Martel separates Life of Pi from other novels‚ by adding multiple dimensions and plot twists. This makes it much more than a survival story. Martel guides the reader through multiple versions of reality‚ drops barriers between truth and fiction and offers a change from a typical narrative style.
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How‚ and to what extent‚ do the texts on this unit challenge the idea of “the novel‟? The conventions of “the traditional novel” are almost completely disregarded in twentieth century avant-garde fiction. According to Hutcheon‚ a healthy piece of postmodern fiction ‘paradoxically uses and abuses the conventions of both realism and modernism‚ and does so in order to challenge their transparency’ (1988‚ p. 53). Despite this‚ what effectively happens with avant-garde literature is that each text
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Nomi‚ the protagonist‚ lives in a highly religious Mennonite town called East Village. A few years ago‚ her mother and sister left her and Ray‚ her father‚ for reasons not yet known. More information is given regarding Trudie‚ Nomi’s mother‚ and Tash‚ Nomi’s sister. Trudie seems to be a woman who wants to defy the roles her town has put upon her. Nomi’s sister is portrayed as this rebellious teenager who doesn’t want to be defined and oppressed by the atmosphere of the town. Reflection: There
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………………………………………………………………………………………….. 28 Comparison with Modernist Literature ………………………………………………………………… 28 Common themes and techniques ………………………………………………………………………… 28 Irony‚ playfulness and black humor and Intertextuality ……………………………………….. 28 Pastiche‚ metafiction‚ fabulation‚ poioumena and temporal distortion ……………….. 30 Magic realism‚
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Advanced English Assessment 2 A truly valuable novel is not purely based on content‚ but has the ability to challenge and spur readers into reaction based on construction and language of the text. Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale is a true example of such value‚ as her novel not only attracts readers but also warns us of the uncertainties and dangers of the future. She demonstrates how language can be used as a powerful tool for both manipulation and domination as well as how reconstructions of both fiction
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Tom McCarthy’s Remainder is a piece of metafiction that helps to “map the paradoxical remainder of the genre after everything novelistic has been subtracted from it”. It centres around a nameless narrator who‚ in the aftermath of an undisclosed accident‚ finds himself coming into eight and a half million pounds in compensation and uses said money to fund actors to replicate scenarios in order to find true authenticity. Marco Roth claims that the neuronovel “allegoris[es]the novelist’s fear of his
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