‘Form is inseparable from content in a work of literature’. How do the formal qualities of narratives shape the reader’s experience of their contents? German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ has supported the statement “Form is inseparable from content in a work of literature”. He strongly believed that “‘Form’ without ‘content’ is empty; ‘content’ without ‘form’ is blind.”1 (page 157) It can be argued that the formal qualities in literature are a key aspect in contributing to the reader’s overall
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film Avatar. The film tells about the conflict between human and native people in Planet Pandora‚ where human exploits the land and oppresses the native. This study explores in what way the idea of orientalism is represented and how both narrative and non-narrative aspects of the film helped in delivering that representation. Indeed‚ to explore the focus of analysis‚ the study will be completed by applying orientalism criticism proposed by Edward Said. Thereby‚ this research will be a qualitative
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My Grandfather Amanda Jeffries Mid-Continent University English II January 16‚ 2013 It was April 30‚ 2011. I was on my way to Wal-Mart with my two boys‚ Hunter and Harper. Since it was a Saturday morning‚ we were going to spend the day doing some shopping and later on‚ Hunter and Harper were going to baseball practice. As I was driving down the road‚ suddenly‚ I heard the ringtone chiming
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Screen Narrative analysis Breaking down terms story- a chronological set of events. plot- he selection and oddering of those events. narrative- the way the events tell the story. non linear- narrative: a narrative that does not tell the story digests‚ anything the character can experience. basic three act narrative structure. the basic 3 act narrative structure has been used for centuries in plays‚ books‚ act one - set up introduced to character and digests ‚ understand world in
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modern problems at that time‚ such as‚ the two world wars and how they affected people‚ both positively and negatively. They also made good points that helped to improve the conditions Britain was facing at that time. The use of innovative forms of narrative is one of the aspects that made these stories modern. Some of the writers that made use of this aspect are‚ James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. These writers define what we understand as modernism in fiction. They defined as ability to stimulate thinking
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After watching Amelie‚ the audience should instantly notice that there were times when the plot would deviate and did not directly follow the classical Hollywood narrative format. For example‚ after Amelie found the lost photo album of her eventual lover Nino Quincampoix‚ the viewer would then be drawn to solving the mystery of why a certain random character continued to appear in the photo album instead of focusing
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ALICE MUNRO’S THE ALBANIAN VIRGIN IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro’s narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story The Albanian Virgin would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short stories. In her short stories‚ it is as though she tries to transform a common‚ ordinary world into something that is unsettling and mysterious as was seen in Vandals
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(in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the role of trauma in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the place of literature in the immigrant narrative (in Lahiri; Ashoke’s obsession with Nikolai Gogol); intersections between Gogol’s The Overcoat and Lahiri’s The Namesake (common themes‚ the question of “finding oneself‚” finding one’s subjectivity); the construction of the immigrant‚ racial “Other” in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the problem of naming in Lahiri’s
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the narrative‚ procedural‚ behavioral‚ and expository discourse types‚ The Velveteen Rabbit is undeniably a narrative discourse in surface and notional structure. The plot or notional structure of the story provides insights into what one would imagine is a toy’s ultimate dream of being loved and becoming real. The story begins with the phrase‚ "There was once a velveteen rabbit‚ and in the beginning he was really splendid." This sentence is an example of a formulaic aperture. This narrative discourse
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and situations. -More than biography and autobiography‚ a social and historical study‚ or even a sequence of narratives. Feathers from a Thousand Li Away - The story of the swan introduces the tone of regret which underlies the several stories of dispossession and failure of belonging both culturally and in relationships. -Irony to the title too - there is little joy in these narratives and much depends on fate which is more than not unlucky in its effects on humans - The old woman’s desire to
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