Regarded as the most traumatic and socially disturbing period in recent Angola history‚ civil war erupted after the country’s decolonization. The structureless and devastated Angola‚ was in a state of anarchy that attracted a capitalist versus communist conflict where political dominance remained up for grabs. The southern African country hosted the cold war theatre following independence from Portuguese colonization in 1975. Winner of the Independent’s foreign fiction award in 2007‚ Jose Eduardo
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Defamiliarization What is it? Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way‚ in order to enhance perception of the familiar. According to Viktor Shklovsky‚ a Russian writer who coined the term ‘Defamiliarization’‚ “The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects‚ unfamiliar‟‚ to make forms difficult‚ to increase the difficulty
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Jorge Luis Borges THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (1970) Translated by Norrnan Thomas di Giovanni in collaboration with the author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)‚ an outstanding modern writer of Latin America‚ was born in Buenos Aires into a family prominent in Argentine history. Borges grew up bilingual‚ learning English from his English grandmother and receiving his early education from an English tutor. Caught in Europe by the outbreak of World War II‚ Borges lived in Switzerland and later
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------------------------------------------------- Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. Kate DiCamillo However great a man’s natural talent may be‚ the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean Jacques Rousseau Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Jack
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Hum 241: Major Works of Short Fiction Instructor: Kelly Brewer Spring 2013 Course Description: This course examines some major works of short fiction. While the course is intended to be a close reading of a number of short stories‚ we will also analyze and discuss the social and cultural commentaries which these literary pieces make. To this end we will pay close attention to the pieces as literary texts and get into sustained interpretations‚ nuances and subtleties. Course Requirements:
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In his essay “The Origins of Half-Human‚ Half-animal Creatures” Jorge states‚ “A monster is nothing but a combination of elements taken from real creatures and the combinatory possibility’s border on the infinite” This helps Shakespeare’s claim about creating the monsters because it happens in The Tempest not just with
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6‚ 1928 in the town of Aracataca‚Colombia to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez.Soon after García Márquez was born‚ his father became a pharmacist. In January 1929‚ his parents moved to Baranquilla while García Marquez stayed in Aracataca. He was raised by his maternal grandparents‚ Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía. When he was eight‚ his grandfather died‚ and he moved to his parents’
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include "A Lover" (1917)‚ "Autumn" (1919)‚ and "Opal" (1919)‚ all by Amy Lowell Magic Realism Fabulous and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains objective realism Magic Realism Authors include Jorge Luis Borges Borges and Zora Neale Hurston (More specifically the scene with talking vultures in "Their Eyes were Watching God) Minimalism Extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements Minimalism Authors include
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traditions that attempted to establish a sense of national identity‚ and which often focused on the indigenous question or the dichotomy of "civilization or barbarism"‚ for which see‚ say‚ the Argentine Domingo Sarmiento’s Facundo (1845)‚ the Colombian Jorge Isaacs’s María‚ Ecuadorian Juan León Mera’s Cumandá (1879)‚ or the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões (1902). Such works are still the bedrocks of national canons‚ and usually mandatory elements of high school curricula. Another instance of
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The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327‚ an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction‚ biblical analysis‚ medieval studies and literary theory.Umberto Eco‘s novel The Name of the Rose was first published in 1980‚ in its original language‚ Italian. Shortly thereafter‚ it was translated into several other languages‚ helping Eco attain his first global hit. In his old age‚ Adso
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