INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry‚ drama‚ and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis. Course Objectives • Develop your basic understanding on what literature
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‘The challenge to gender stereotypes‚ as well as provocative statements on women’s rights‚ and attacks on sexual inequality are a fundamental basis of theatrical Naturalism.’ Critically analyse your chosen text with specific reference to this statement. Naturalism and Realism are frequently interpreted in the broadest sense as synonyms‚ referring to an objective portrayal of daily life that appears true to the spectator or readers actual experience. (Innes‚C. 2000‚p2)) More attentively the terms
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Iona further. Iona’s roommates offer no comfort either‚ as a young man falls asleep when he tries to vent. Unable to sleep‚ Iona heads outside to take care of his mare‚ but instead finds a companion to converse with. Although the main idea is simple‚ Chekov uses numerous literary techniques to create the story. “Misery” opens as a third person point-of-view story‚ describing how depressed Iona looks from afar. The reader is immediately introduced to his sorrows and the tone is revealed. The rest of
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"Comrades! Citizens! Brothers and Sisters of the Glaz Soldat! Men and woman of the Surviving States of the Reformed Soviet Union: welcome‚ my friends!" Grozny paused to allow time for the tumultous applause to die down from the crowd behind Průhonický Castle. They watched faithfully watched the projected image of their fearless leader with a rabid‚ drug-induced fervor. Eleven and Five remained concealed across the pond. They could see the hemispherical veranda atop the stone prominatory jutting
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867722 ENG 30101 October 17‚ 2014 Chekov categorized his famous play The Cherry Orchard as a comedy. However‚ both Lyubov’s sense of overwhelming emptiness after losing the cherry orchard and Lopakhin’s naked hysteria after buying the orchard gave the readers a sense of bitterness. By categorizing it as a comedy‚ Chekov was clearly indicating something deeper. By focusing on the relationships between the characters and the cherry orchard and the symbolisms of the cherry orchard‚ I hope to provide
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1128A Intro to Theatre Plays & Playwrights Form Winter 2014 Name: Nathan Whitfield 1. Title of the play: The Cherry Orchard 2. Author of the play: Chekov 3. Setting: Russia 4. Time: 1890’s 5. Theme: (NOT THE STORY LINE! – what is the play REALLY about?) The theme of the play has been thought to be the struggle over memory. I would have to agree with this idea. Throughout the play you learn of painful memories that the characters have had and how they are desperately trying to forget them
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The Revolution of the Peasants “We all look at the same sun‚ but we don’t eat the same dinner.” This is a common proverb said by the peasants of Russia‚ this symbolizes the lack of equality among the classes‚ other proverbs like “A wife is nice twice: when she’s brought into the house and when she’s carried out of it to her grave.” this shows the inequality among peasants themselves! This inequality added to terrible working conditions were the main conditions that ultimately lead Russia to becoming
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franchise all these years‚ you would be definitely touched by its storyline and theme. This movie is really about revisiting the good old times of Star Trek. And since it is also the film that features the last performances by Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) and Karl Urban (Leonard McCoy)‚ the emotional connect only gets deeper. But this is not to say that it is devoid of rough patches. They are there in the form of the chaotic early space battle
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Introduction The whole is more than its parts. This is definitely true for a collection of short stories like this. This essay at hand will concentrate on the Western elements in the nine short stories of East‚ West by Salman Rushdie. Special attention will be given to the composition of the book. The division into East‚ West and East‚ West will be examined‚ too. It will be followed how Rushdie deconstructs the seeming oppositions East and West and how stereotypes play a part in this. The thesis
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With many social and political changes occurring during the 1800’s‚ the Russian Intelligentsia’s view on the peasantry also saw a shift. Recent emancipations in the country saw millions of former serfs and farmers with newfound rights and statuses but also saw exposed many faults in current labor practices and corruption within the bureaucratic levels of the Russian state. The current nobility took it upon themselves to decide how they handle the new working class problems and restructuring of the
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