THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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Chapter 1. The Making of Market Conventions 1.4 When Asia was the World Economy When the Portuguese reached India by sea in the 1490s they set up the foundation of trade around the Indian Ocean. Islamic rule of the Byzantine world and the Sassanid lands made it safe for all traders to travels between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. As their rule expanded further to parts of Europe‚ Africa‚ and Indonesia the trading business between countries prospered. Once fees were paid almost all traders
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Back ground on the age The nineteenth century is known as the Victorian age. It was the period of queen Victoria’s era which started from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a complex era . There are many events which helped to mould its way of life and thought . First of all‚ as a result of the Industrial Revolution England was transformed from a rural and agricultural nation into an industrial and urban nation . The thing which affect the social ‚cultural and economic aspects of life . The writers
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Friend Who Lost His Way A politically fact and one of the most well known leader of the Roman Republic‚ Julius Caesar transform and created what became known as the Roman Empire‚ as to some Caesar seemed ambitions and would abuse his power and become a dictator. The tragic play called The Tragedy of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare is a famous play that takes place in rome‚ as many would think this play is about Julius Caesar I believe it’s about his tragic friend Brutus who lost his way
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Graphic Novels: Literature without Text? Jan Baetens Literary graphic novels: adaptation‚ illustration‚ collaboration‚ and beyond More and more‚ the hype surrounding the graphic novel concerns its literary qualities. Many graphic novels appear to have a literary subtext (in the case of adaptations) or present themselves‚ in a more radical form‚ as the visual development of a literary text that is completely reproduced within the graphic novel. In the former case‚ the literary graphic novel
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Major Works Data Sheet Title: The Things They CarriedAuthor: Tim O’BrienDate of Publication: 1990Genre: Fiction | Biological information about the author:Tim O’Brien grew up in Worthington‚ Minnesota and now lives in Massachusetts. In 1968 he was drafted into the Vietnam Conflict and served one tour of duty from 1969-1970. After returning home he enrolled in graduate school at Harvard University and studied government. After finishing his studies he worked as a national affairs correspondent for
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My personal belief on this argument is I believe young athletes should try to play as many sports as they can. I was lucky enough to play many sports throughout my life. I played Soccer‚ Baseball‚ Football‚ Basketball. Each and every sport benefited me in some way; they all helped better my skills. Baseball helped my hand eye coordination which benefited me in every sport but really helped in soccer where I also played Goalkeeper as well as forward. Basketball helped me in communication‚ teamwork
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Conflict is the essence of drama and all literary fiction demands drama to bring joy to the reader and flourish as a story. At the core of the story‚ conflict is the momentum of occurrence and change and happens to be crucial at all levels for transporting information and constructing characterization. Conflict is the fountainhead of change that engages a reader‚ and in a story‚ conflict and action does what illustration and reveling of feelings and situations do not. The most popular and unforgettable
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the understanding of consequence. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham uses fear as one of the most dominant themes of the novel. The plot of this novel is based around David Strorm‚ a boy who lives in the post-nuclear-apocalyptic town of Waknuk. The entire town of Waknuk fears another tribulation; another nuclear holocaust‚ and is forced into a religion based on fear. Fear guided David away from his dystopian lifestyle and towards a new and better life. After the nuclear apocalypse‚ as civilization
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