ASPECTS OF A NOVEL by Prof. Raj Kumar Verma Professor‚ Department of English Sri Aurobindo College University of Delhi Today we are here to discuss to know and to analyse how to read a novel. Reading of a novel is an activity which as readers of literature which as readers of story. All of us who have some degree of education are quite familiar with and yet despite that familiarity despite having read quite a few novels for entertainment for knowledge purpose or simply for the sake of passing
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Critical response Robert Frost –The Oven Bird This poem contains 14 lines and is written mainly in iambic pentameter with a little variation in some lines. Each line rhymes with some other line‚ but there is no regular rhyme pattern. Nevertheless‚ you can call this poem a sonnet in my opinion‚ because it contains the key features of a sonnet: Iambic pentameter‚ an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines) and a theme linked to nature. As mentioned‚ the base metrical pattern of this poem is
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from danger or trouble. In the short story‚ “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot”‚ Robert Olen Butler makes the point that cowardly behavior can ultimately lead to ones demise through his use of plot‚ characterization‚ symbolism‚ and irony. In this story‚ Butler portrays a jealous husbands cowardly behavior when dealing with his supposedly cheating wife‚ which leads to his death. He then returns in the form of a parrot to endure the pain of his decisions. As demonstrated by the husband‚ who is
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Case Study – Marketing Microwave Ovens to a New Market Segment Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 3 Statement of the Problem ........................................................................................................... 3 Situation Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 5 Strategy
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I. INTRODUCTION Today‚ every country draws its energy needs from a variety of sources. We broadly classified this source as conventional and non conventional. 1.1] CONVENTIONAL SOURCES 1) Fossil fuels‚ 2) Hydroelectric power‚ 3) Nuclear fission‚ 1.2] NON-CONVENTIONAL SOURCES 1) Solar energy‚ 2) Wind energy‚ 3) Bio mass and bio gas‚ 4) Ocean thermal energy‚ 5) Tidal energy‚ 6) Geothermal energy. Energy is the prime mover of economic growth and is vital to the survival of a modern economy
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Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in society and humanity in general. Many times we refer to the novel when deciphering morality and lifestyles of earlier
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Newgate novel From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar‚ a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries‚ but usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic
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The Victorian Novel: main characteristics First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people‚ its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms‚ the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told‚ the writer and his readers shared the same opinions‚ values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class‚ the setting
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September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962)‚ also known as Will Faulkner‚ was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford‚ Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media‚ including novels‚ short stories‚ a play‚ poetry‚ essays and screenplays. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories‚ many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County‚ a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County‚ where he spent most of his life‚ and Holly Springs/Marshall
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Foster had to write this book. Is this a proto-feminist novel? Is Foster condemning the patriarchal society that she is lives in? Or is this novel written as a cautionary tale so that women can learn from Eliza’s s mistakes and see the outcome of what happens when a woman does not stick to the norms of society? In answering all these questions‚ it can be concluded that The Coquette can be considered a proto-feminist novel. The reasons that this novel can be considered proto-feminist are because of Eliza’
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