Course: Literary Studies Final Essay John Updike and his novel ‘The Centaur’ American novelist‚ poet‚ essayist and playwright‚ John Updike belongs to the post-war generation of writers the U.S. They came to literature with university degree and having philological training. The object of his image always was a life of intellectuals; he was well familiar with life and habits of the upper-middle-class. One of the most famous and significant novels of Updike
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are the events seen? | Is it a first-person or a third-person narrator?Who is the narrator: age‚ relation to characters and events?Omniscient/ unintrusive/ restricted?Narrative modes: dialogue‚ description‚ report | What is the narrator’s attitude to the events and to the characters?What do the other characters think: are we told about that‚ or must we guess?Is the narrator reliable or unreliable?What if the story had had another narrator? | Put the text and your interpretation into a larger perspective:ThemesAuthor’s
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Some readers are irritated by Nick Carraway as a Narrator. What is your view of Fitzgerald’s use of Nick Carraway as a narrator? Some readers can be hugely irritated by Nick as a narrator because he can be seen as lacking insight and very unperceptive ultimately this makes the reader feel wary about trusting Nick. He cannot give an accurate account of what has happened between Gatsby and Daisy before he met them. To make up for his lack of information‚ he turns to other sources such as Jordan Backer
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GUIDE FOR INTERPRETING LITERATURE THE SCHEME OF STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF A LITERARY TEXT I. Speak of the author in brief. - the facts of his biography relevant for his creative activities; - the epoch (historical and social background); - the literary trend he belongs to; - the main literary pieces (works); II. Give a summary of the extract (or the story) under consideration (the gist‚ the content of the story in a nutshell). III. State the problem raised (tackled) by the author
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of the unreliable narrator‚ where evasion and mendacity both shadow and undermine the story that is told." To atone is to seek forgiveness for one ’s sins. The novel is Briony ’s attempt to be forgiven for the crime she committed as a naïve girl of 13‚ during the summer of 1935 heat wave. The narrator delivers the story from different points of view; she bases the other characters thoughts and reactions upon her own knowledge of their persona. While retelling the story the narrator has the tendency
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the meaning that is consequently created. The narration within the passage is omniscient. The narrator knows the actions‚ thoughts‚ words and feelings of not only the characters but also gives the reader insight into the society attitude to the engagement of Jane and Bingley; “The Bennets were speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world”. The understated way in which the narrator ‘tells’ the reader this using the omniscient voice‚ allows the reader to absorb the information in
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Anonymous Literary Analysis Final 2/12/13 The Circuit Nomads There are lots of great books out there‚ like the Gene Scene by Jordan Brown‚ Nobody’s Perfect by David Fischer and Hurricane Heroes by Thomas Fields-Meyer. But “The Circuit” by Francisco Jiménez is the story of the day; I love how the narrator’s perspective makes the story interesting. While Panchito was working outside in the boiling 100° heat with his brother and father. At school were Panchito had a hard time reading‚ and lastly
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story belongs to the belles-lettres functional style‚ the main aim of which is to reveal the development of the conflict in which the characters are involved. It is told in the 3rd person narration from the point of view of an omniscient anonymous narrator. As to the narrative compositional forms presented in the extract‚ it contains exposition‚ where the family of Parkers is introduced to the reader. The direct temporal marker “in the twenties century” makes the readers know the time the story takes
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Instructions for Sequence Analysis A. State the "message(s)" of the scene or sequence‚ i.e.‚ what is the filmmaker trying to communicate? B. Justify your statement in A by explaining how the five main channels of information in film--visual image‚ print and other graphics‚ speech‚ music‚ noise (sound effects)--work together to communicate it. Note that not all films make use of all five channels (e.g.‚ print and graphics were common in the era of the silent film) and‚ further‚ that the intermittent
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styles such as‚ point of view‚ pace‚ and vocabulary. Point of view: There are several different points of view. Some possibilities are first‚ second‚ third‚ third limited‚ and third omniscient. When a story is told in first person point of view‚ the narrator is involved in the story. A first person point of view adds a more personal feeling to the mood. First person point of view also commonly uses pronouns such as I‚ me‚ mine‚ our‚ us‚ and we. Second person point of view is very rare in literature‚
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