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    Using the material from item A and elsewhere assess the usefulness of Marxist approaches to an understanding of crime and deviance. (21 marks) Marxist approaches can be useful to help us understand crime and deviance. Marxists theory adopts the belief that the ruling class is responsible for societies. They think crime is systematically generated by the structure of capitalist society. Marxists believe that society is divided into two classes‚ the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie

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    Harris Crime Fiction

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    The novel of Harris stands as a signpost of current horror fiction in the development of the serial killer as an antihero. With the creation of arguably the best fictional criminals ever‚ Harris makes reference to his habit of making use of real-life serial murderers and forensics to establish a practical subgenre of the crime thriller. The tones of the chapters vary here‚ which resulted in a diverse and uneven read. The conversation of Lecter discloses his penchant for psychology and the coaching

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    The Marxist literary criticism according to the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary theory describes that a novel should unmask or accentuate a more whole understanding of a community. Marxist criticism analyzes ways in which a human is formed and socialized through manufactured views of reality and truth. (Fish‚ Tom) The novel A Prayer for Owen Meany is a good example of underlying patterns and manufactured views of reality and truth. If we examine John Irving’s novel A Prayer for

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    Maria Anwar M. Phil Literature – 2nd Presentataion on “Persepolis as a postmodern fiction” What makes Persepolis a Postmodern Fiction? A mix of High art and popular culture: Marjane Satrapi’s ’’Persepolis’’ is the latest and one of the most palatable examples of a postmodern genre‚ an autobiographical novel in form of a comic-book which tells the history of Iran from Marjane’s point of view. Persepolis is a postmodern graphic novel that blurs the boundaries between popular culture and high art

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    Fiction and Indian Novel

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    change of Indian fiction in English. The form of Indian novel in English has become more open‚ more playful‚ and more concerned. All the credit aptly goes to the gifted‚ stupendous‚ and extraordinary creative genius‚ Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. He‚ indeed‚ took all the pains to make novel a genre in Indian writing in English. He began to write ‘Rajmohan’s Wife‚’ the first Indian Novel in English‚ in the year 1864. It was his initial and tentative attempt as literary genre to fiction based on a Victorian

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    her bread when her family was starving” (Wikipedia 1). There are strong literary themes throughout this work that readily lend themselves to various forms of critique. This paper will focus on two main genres of literary criticism. The first is Marxist criticism‚ for which there is plenty of material that reveals the novel’s explicitly anti-imperialist agenda. There is a strong oppression of the poor by the rich‚ and socioeconomic subjugation is responsible for the huge disparity between the “haves”

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    American Gothic Fiction From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction American Gothic Fiction is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rational vs irrational‚ puritanism‚ guilt‚ Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud)‚ abhumans‚ ghosts‚ monsters‚ and domestic abjection. The roots of these concepts lay in a past riddled with slavery‚ a fear of racial mixing (miscegenation)

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    Women In Fan Fiction

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    Fan fiction is something has been around as long as people have been telling stories. Ancient people would retell old stories or explore minor characters’ roles‚ which are both things people still do today. But there seems to be an unwritten rule between writer and audience that each should respect the other. In other words‚ authors shouldn’t ridicule their readers‚ and fans shouldn’t belittle the author. When either side breaks this mutual respect‚ we begin to see problems in a work of art. One

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    Big Daddy- Marxist Point of View In the movie Big Daddy you can see that a theme that is presented is a Marxist one. This theme is hidden and represented in a two way form. The idea that Julian had been “adopted” by Sunny as his kid and that he can’t do things by himself is the whole Marxist concept. What supports this is the fact that Julian can’t cross the street without holding his hand‚ he needs Sunny to urinate with him‚ otherwise he can’t‚ and also that he needs to have a book read before

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    Victimization and Its Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s. In: Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures‚ Fatima Festic (ed.)‚ Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‚ 2009‚ pp. 35 -65. VICTIMIZATION AND ITS “CURES”: REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE IN BRITISH FICTION AND DRAMA OF THE 1990s LUDMILLA KOSTOVA In his extended reflection on twentieth-century history Hope and Memory (2000; English

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