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    The Rise of the English Novel The dominant genre in world literature‚ the novel is actually a relatively young form of imaginative writing. Only about 250 years old in England—and embattled from the start—its rise to preeminence has been striking. After sparse beginnings in seventeenth-century England‚ novels grew exponentially in production by the eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century became the primary form of popular entertainment. Elizabethan literature provides a starting point

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    Orwell’s "Such‚ Such Were the Joys....": Alienation and Other Such Joys George Orwell expresses a feeling of alienation throughout "Such‚ Such Were the Joys...." He casts himself as a misfit‚ unable to understand his peers‚ the authorities placed over him‚ and the laws that govern his existence. Orwell writes‚ "The good and the possible never seemed to coincide" (37). Though he shows his ability to enumerate what is "good‚" he resigns himself to a predestined state; uncertain of where

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    The Novel Ddemeuble Essay

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    “The Novel Démeublé” is an essay written by Willa Cather‚ throughout the essay‚ there is a statement at the end that stands out than the rest. This statement is “Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there-that it seems to me‚ is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named‚ of the over-tone divided by the ear but not heard by it the verbal mood‚ the emotional aura of the fact or thing or the deed‚ that gives high quality to the novel or the drama as well

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    Alienation’ was a central concern for the young Karl Marx. Discuss the dimensions of this alienation in Marx’s critique of capitalist society‚ and comment on the contemporary relevance of this concept. The concept of alienation remains a significant feature of modern society. I will discuss Karl Marx’s central concern with alienation in conjunction with his critique of capitalist society and note the contemporary relevance. Karl Marx was born into a middle class home in Germany in the 19th century

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    Novel Room Analysis

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    ROUGH DRAFT LUIS VILLENEUVE The novel Room written by Emma Donoghue focuses on the story of a mother who is kidnapped at the age of nineteen and ends up having a child with her kidnapper whom she names Jack. Her son is a special boy because he lives in an imaginary world created by her and is not aware of the existence of any other place but the room he lives in. As the story progresses both are rescued from their captivity but find it difficult to adapt to this new world. Jack’s mother however

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    BANKIM: THE ORIGINARY* FIGURE OF INDIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH Y.V.R. Prasanna Kumar Research Scholar (M.Phil.)‚ (Part-time)‚ Department of English‚ S.V. University‚ Tirupathi. A. P.INDIA 517502 INTRODUCTION A great deal of Indian writing in English is in the form of novel. In the course of an eventful history‚ Indian novel in English demonstrated the capacity and resilience for innovations and attained the status of Universal Form. The post-independence India has witnessed a Sea change of Indian

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    How‚ and to what extent‚ do the texts on this unit challenge the idea of “the novel‟? The conventions of “the traditional novel” are almost completely disregarded in twentieth century avant-garde fiction. According to Hutcheon‚ a healthy piece of postmodern fiction ‘paradoxically uses and abuses the conventions of both realism and modernism‚ and does so in order to challenge their transparency’ (1988‚ p. 53). Despite this‚ what effectively happens with avant-garde literature is that each text

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    PORPHYRIA’S LOVER – ANALYSIS Porphyria’s Lover was first published in 1836 and is one of the earliest Browning’s dramatic monologue. The speaker voice lives in a cottage and he is waiting Porphyria‚ while the weather outside is bad. When Porphyria arrives‚ she is able to make the cottage glow. Then she takes off her outside clothes‚ sits beside her lover and speaks to him‚ without receiving an answer. Later she puts her arm around his waist‚ his head on her bare shoulder and speaks of her love

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    of the novel who is set in his structural ways. Coetzee prefers to write his story with more interest in the gaps‚ silences and absences of his texts. One can see this through his choice of a distant narrator‚ a narrator who does not know what is to come and has limited access to the events of the novel. Coetzee does this for the interest of his readers‚ to put his readers in David Luries shoes‚ where difficult situations need to be resolved without any help or guidance. This makes the novel a more

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    The roles the villains/ nemesis play within the Bond novels isn’t unique per say‚ but without them‚ there would definitely be no Bond novels. Each villain Bond faces shapes who Bond is as a character. They test Bond’s limits and they provide him with the tools to make himself look good within the novel and films. Every good guy has a bad guy to fight type situation is what we see in the Bond novels. Though Bond is tortured and put to the test by these villains‚ he always comes out on top. The villain

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