Types of fiction 1. Flash fiction: Flash fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables‚ and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus‚ Anton Chekhov‚ O. Henry‚ Franz Kafka‚ H.P.Lovecraft‚ Ray Bradbury and Lydia Davis. New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet‚ with its demand for short‚ concise works. A ready market for flash-fiction works is ezines; however‚ flash fiction is also published by many print magazines. Markets specializing in flash fiction include SmokeLong Quarterly
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Many plays‚ whether dramatic or comedic‚ have ties into the social issues and setting of the time they were written. Writers such as Anton Chekhov‚ Tennessee Williams‚ and even Mark Twain have used the society of their time to produce satirical and even tragic works of literature. One of the best examples of a play that gathers meaning from societal values is Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. In 1893 Oscar Wilde began writing his fourth of five works (Tornaritis‚ Nicholas. Shelby‚ C. ed. "An Ideal
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in “finding herself” but also has to face disagreements in the family. Books and window in Frank’s study is symbolic for the barrier between Rita’s current world and the world of Academia in which she is “finding herself”. When Denny burnt all the Chekhov books‚ it symbolises Rita’s problems in the family and Denny’s disagreement of Rita seeking “life” in education. During the play‚ Rita replied Frank whilst “standing up”‚ when Frank curiously asked‚ “I mean about your husband”. This acts as a metaphor
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Introduction “Why does one write? Because sometimes one feels like saying something. Because some question disturb us. At times these may be questioned addressed to ourselves. Or to the community around us. Or to our time. Or the whole of mankind. At time to nature‚ and to God.” This seemingly general statement on the primal springs of literature M.T. Vasudevan Nair make in Kathakinte Kala (story teller’s art) can very well apply to M.T’s own writing that spans four fertile decades. When M.T started
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Cited: Chekhov‚ Anton. “The Bet.” Anton Chekhov ’s Short Stories: Texts of the Stories‚ Backgrounds‚ Criticism. New York: Norton‚ 1979. Print. Finney‚ Jack. “Contents of the Dead Man ’s Pocket.” Elements of Literature‚ Fourth Course. Austin: Holt‚ Rinehart and Winston‚ 2010. 19-32
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ht in world theatre"‚[2] much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre‚ such as those performed by giullari (medieval strolling players)[3] and‚ more famously‚ the ancient Italian style of commedia dell’arte.[4] In 2010s he became the main ideologue of the Five Star Movement‚ the anti-establishment party led by Beppe Grillo‚[5] and has been often referred by its members as "the Master".[6] His plays have been translated into 30
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Ukraine is one of the largest countries of Eastern Europe. Ukraine occupies an area of 603‚700 square kilometres. Its territory stretches for 893 kilometres from north to south and for 1‚316 kilometres from east to west. It has state borders with Russia‚ Belarus and Moldova. It also borders on Poland‚ Czehia‚ Slovakia‚ Hungary and Romania. In the south it is washed by the Black and the Azov Seas. The major part of Ukraine is flat and only 5 % of it is mountainous. The two mountainous areas in
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marriage should be based on true love. First of all‚ the story explains what true love is. “[ZhongYu] always took with her one of the twenty-seven volumes of Chekhov’s stories ... She also warned me‚ ‘Don’t touch these books. If you want to read Chekhov‚ read that set I bought you.’”(Zhang 54). This quote highlighted that ZhongYu always bring the Chekhov’s novel with her for the trip. Therefore‚ when she gets tired‚ she can sit down and read the novel for the whole day. Not only that if ShanShan
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advice and makes a request." It is almost as if‚ it was his last wish and that he was too weak to argue with his daughter. The father’s last request is to have his daughter "write a simple story just once more‚ the kind de Maupassant wrote‚ or Chekhov‚ the kind you used to write. Just recognizable people and then write down what happened to them next." We get an insight in the lives of the father and his daughter. They are both well read and educated‚ and the daughter’s stories have been published
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Information as a private or a social good: debates. Nowadays we live in the world where due to distribution of ICT and easy (more or less) access to the Internet some part of Information can be easily used. In this connection there is always a question‚ if information a social good‚ engendered by a concept of everybody’s property on everything‚ or a private one. On the one hand‚ information really can be as a social good‚ as an air. Here we can say that as nobody can’t live without air‚ anybody
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