Pashkov House 09/09/2013 20:00 Art of fiction conspectus Novelists: DM - David Mitchell EW - Evie Wyld AI - Alexander Ilichevsky What is key to the art of fiction? [DM] This is an enormous question. St.Augustin’s expression comes to mind: “I know exactly what time is until someone asks me to explain it”. I feel the same way about this question. However I would say there are 5 key elements in the art of fiction: * Plot: what happens in the story * Character: who it happens
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In this final assignment I will talk about the patriarchal fear of female sexuality. I will also be dealing with a brief summary of the female figure in the gothic novel. To begin with‚ I will give a brief summary of the changes that experimented the topics of the nineteenth century novel; then I will comment on the description which some scholars give about the woman of the nineteenth century. I will also exemplify the patriarchal fear of female sexuality by using two of the texts studied in the
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movie that is no exception to this is Pulp Fiction. The amount of style in the movie could become a college dissertation‚ but I will try to give the best examples of style. This ranges from the use of doorways as a frame for the shot‚ to the use of 70’s music as the background for this film. Overall‚ in my opinion‚ the style of Pulp Fiction is one of the main reasons the movie has been so popular for this amount of time. Mise-en-scene in Pulp Fiction is seen throughout the movie‚ but what fits
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The movie” The hunger games” by Gary Ross ‚ and the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut share a lot of similar characteristics of dystopian fiction‚ unlike their counterpart “ There will come soft rains” by Ray Bradbury. Which is a short story that is written under the dystopian fiction‚ but is quite different compared to the other two. Both “the hunger games” and “Harrison Bergeron” share some of characteristics that clearly define a dystopian world such as lack of individuality‚ Protagonist
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Questions on “After the Sirens” 1. When did the air-raid sirens begin? What was the husband’s initial reaction to the sound of the sirens? 2. What reason is offered for a nuclear attack on this particular city? 3. How did the baby respond to the nuclear blast? 4. Why does the husband instruct his wife to lie down in the corner (of the north and west walls)? Explain. 5. The Army Survival Unit insists that they throw away their food‚ water‚ and outer clothing before they get into
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1. Henry James’s theory of the novel‚ introduced in his critical essay The Art of Fiction‚ has been considered as “playing an important part in the definition of the new conventions of the modernist novel” (Dobrinescu‚ 203). The theory’s central point or main concern has to do with‚ as Hopkins considers‚ “taking the novel (and‚ consequently‚ theoretical discussion of the novel) seriously”. For James‚ the novel corresponds to the ultimate art form and it should have a position the community as such
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Genre of Science Fiction In Darko Suvin’s “Metamorphoses of Science Fiction‚” Suvin argues that science fiction should be considered its own literary genre. The reason he believes science fiction is distinct from other literary genres is because of its transforming aspects. Suvin describes science fiction as the literature of “cognitive estrangement‚” which includes a “novum”. It is his belief that both cognition and estrangement must be both present and interactive in science fiction. Although it
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Dana epshtein Pulp fiction- movie review Pulp fiction is one of the first if not the first film which is edited that way that the plot is not organized in chronological order‚ in this movie the destroying of the accepted shape is not only original‚ it is a work of art. Pulp fiction is a movie to watch more than once‚ the first watch it seems to be a nice action movie that includes witty dialogues and nothing more. But each time you watch it you find more layers‚ ideas and hidden messages
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Julie Fallows 6423747 Sean Moreland November 27‚ 2012 Ambiguity of American Gothic Anxieties Since the 19h century‚ American Gothic fiction started to exist independently from the British type. In fact‚ the latter was marked by its use of fantastic‚ externalized and metaphysical elements as opposed to the boundaries of American Gothic fiction in which were expressed by historical‚ internalized‚ racial and psychological characteristics. (Edwards‚ XVII) In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven‚ Fall
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There are plethora of conventions in the science fiction genre‚ in the book entitled "Science Fiction" author Adam Roberts elaborates on the different conventions of science fiction genres and modifies his take on them within the different definitions of sci-fi. Sci-fi cannot be defined by one overall definition‚ you must take all the other genres of sci-fi‚ as well as the different types of forms the genres are presented in. for example‚ sci-fi could have different forms such as books about alien
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