An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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series of the New Chinese Literature) From these evidences‚ though they had not met each other‚ Gogol’s works indeed had great impact on him especially on his early works. Though both stories are written in diary form‚ the concept of time and the narrative methods are presented differently. In Gogol’s story‚ time is expressed in dates. The dates become less understandable when time proceeds and the date in the last entry becomes upside down and inside out. The disorder of the dates reveals the madman’s
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http://www.answers.com/topic/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been-story-5 Point of View The first line of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?“ — “Her name was Connie “ — signals that it is being told by a third-person narrator. This narrative voice stays closely aligned to Connie’s point of view. The reader learns what her thoughts are‚ but the narrator provides no additional information or judgment of the situation. For instance‚ Connie’s harsh appraisals of her sister and mother are
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Adult Paul’s narration offers an interpretation of events from a position of maturity and self awareness. As a result‚ events at the beginning of the lone ls‚ such as Paul’s first meeting with Keller‚ are recounted with the tone of ones self-criticism. The opening rhetorical question and immediate answer in ’first impressions? Misleading‚ of course" established our expectations that pails experience of Keller at the novels opening will be changes by novels end‚ and that thus changes perspective
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revelation of concepts and events which were then put into texts through human authors. The text itself therefore would be completely human‚ and open to criticism. However the meaning of Scripture would then be unchangeable even if the meaning of the words used to express this change. If the text itself is revelation‚ then there is no scope for criticism‚ however the meaning of the text would change‚ because the meanings of the words change with time. Believing that God through Scripture revealed truth
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Pyatachev E.G. Text Three From W.S. Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972)‚ the son of a solicitor‚ was educated at Harrow and Balliol College‚ Oxford and for more than twenty years from 1932 was a fiction reviewer for such periodicals as the Spectator; Sketch‚ Observer and Time and Tide. He published his first book‚ a collection of short stories entitled "Night Fears" in 1924. His novel "Eustace and Hilda" (1947) was recognized immediately as a major contribution to English fiction; "The Go-Between"
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and‚ sometimes‚ the use of the Southern dialect. The criticism of the novel has changed over the years with critics using everything from Psychoanalytic theory to Marxist theory to explain the importance of language and the historical content behind the novel. In his article‚ “Voice in Narrative Texts: The Example of As I Lay Dying‚” Stephen M. Ross investigates the use of voice through the perspective of the fifteen first person narratives in As I Lay Dying. Ross highlights the use of two distinct
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The Evolution of Melodrama in Hollywood Melodrama films could be argued to be the most complex classification of films which address the society’s attitudes towards class‚ race‚ and sex. The films Rebel Without A Cause (1955) directed by Nicholas Ray and The Last Picture Show (1971) directed by Peter Bogdanovich are key examples of a shift in the melodrama genre. Rebel Without A Cause depicts the story of a troublemaking teenager‚ Jim Stark‚ with unaffectionate parents‚ who is faced with moving to
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Title: Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator Author(s): Kent Cartwright Publication Details: Papers on Language and Literature 20.2 (Spring 1984): p218-232. Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Vol. 157. Detroit: Gale‚ 2005. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Bookmark: Bookmark this Document Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning [(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay‚ Cartwright discusses
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Chronicle of a Death Foretold (original Spanish title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez‚ published in 1981. It tells‚ in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction‚ the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers. Analysis One of the unanswered questions in this book is who actually took Angela Vicario’s virginity‚ for the narrator is unsure why she named Santiago Nasar as the one who committed the
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