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TWO PICARESQUE NOVELS.
Term Paper ID:30878
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Criticisms of both novelists of the social structure.... More...
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Criticisms of both novelists of the social structure. Daniel Defoe's "MOLL FLANDERS," and the anonymously written novel "LAZARILLO DE TORMES." Similarities including main character moving through a series of relationship and ultimately finding success. Plot structure, irony. Defoe's concern with economic structure of his time. Both novelists' criticism of their societies.
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Different writers criticize their societies in their works and show both the nature of that society at the time of their writing and what they would substitute for it. Some novels are more socially directed than others and more overt about their social criticism. Indeed some novels survive precisely because of the strength of their criticism of the society that existed at the time they were written. The anonymously written novel Lazarillo de Tormes is not as well known as Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, and it has been read through the ages more for what it says about the society it reflects than anything else, while Moll Flanders is read as much for its ribaldry as its societal critique. Still, both works show that their respective authors were fully aware of the world in which they lived, were critical of aspects of the social structure, and were well able to make their
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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ.
Term Paper ID:30850
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Analysis of the Egyptian writer.... More...
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Analysis of the Egyptian writer. Pioneer of the novel in the Arabic language. Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature. His body of work, literary devices, and themes related to family, religion, politics, poverty, drugs, prostitution. Examines several novels including "Cairo Trilogy," "The Thief and the Dogs," "Respected Sir." Mahfouz's place in the world of contemporary literature.
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Analysis of the Work of Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz is probably one of the best-known writers and novelists in the Arabic language. As Michelle Hartman (1997) pointed out in her analysis of one of Mahfouz’s novels, al-Liss wa’l kilub (The Thief and the Dog), this Egyptian writer’s fame and reputation has grown on the international level since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. In fact, Hartman (1997) considers Mahfouz to be the pioneer of the novel in the Arabic language; his career has spanned the entire range of novelistic development in the Arab world. This essay will examine several of Mahfouz’s novels, drawing upon the novels and critical commentary to describe his themes, his use of literary devices, and his place in the world of contemporary literature.
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NATURALIST SCHOOL OF WRITING.
Term Paper ID:30790
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Discusses literary theories of Zola and the naturalists.... More...
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Discusses literary theories of Zola and the naturalists. Zola's vision of fiction as representing the world with unadorned realism. Their desire to achieve transparency. Influence of 19th century science and work of Darwin, Comte and Taine on the literary approach taken by the Naturalists. Stylistic and social reasons for the naturalist school.
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Zola (1864) held that there were three windows of literary mimesis: the Classical (which enlarges), the Romantic (which distorts), and the Realist (which is transparent). As the leader of the naturalist school of writing Zola was committed to a vision of fiction as the representation the world in a manner that provided a window on reality, presenting it unadorned and plain as it really was. This is an analogy that is very telling since it refers not just to the supposed transparency of naturalist fiction that enables the viewer to 'see' that world, but to the pane of glass that is interposed between the world and the viewer and to the framework of the window that makes a selection from the wider world that defines exactly what part of the world the novelist wishes the reader to see. The act of framing is attributed to the novelist but the implications that
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AFRICAN FEMALE WRITERS.
Term Paper ID:30776
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Emergence of oppressed African women.... More...
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Emergence of oppressed African women. How their texts reveal rebellion against the cultural expectations of their society. Examines eight books. Subject matter includes cultural differences that separate Western women from African women. African womanism vs. Western feminism. IColonial oppression. Husband/wife relationships. Role of the African matriarch. Emergence of female identity.
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Finding the Oppressed Voice in the African Female Text
Amidst the sound and the fury of their lives that are controlled by colonialists and the men, African women’s voices have been stifled. However, the voices of the African women rebelling against the cultural expectations of them to be silent and submissive can be discerned within the texts of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Bessie Head’s Maru, Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother, Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story, Calixthe Beyala’s The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, Assia Djebar’s A Sister to Scheherazade, Nawal El Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile and Emecheta Buchi’s The Joys of Motherhood.
Unmediated by the bias of male authors, these writers illuminate the oppressive relationship between man and wife in many African households. Through their eyes, readers from the Weste
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Discusses Choderlos de Laclos' novel of 1782.... More...
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Discusses Choderlos de Laclos' novel of 1782. Its form as an epistolary novel. Main theme of corruption of innonence and virtue, and the power of evil. Elegance of the book's language and finely structured plot. Character of Valmont; his personality traits; his parasitical relationships. His inability to form meaningful relationships.
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Choderlos de Laclos’s Les liaisons dangereuses – translated sometimes as Dangerous Acquaintances but more accurately titled in English with the cognate Dangerous Liaisons is an epistolary novel (published in 1782) that takes as its main theme the corruption of innocence and virtue by the libertine Valmont and his mistress, the vicious and immoral Madame de Mertueil simply for their own amusement. The book’s great virtues are the elegance of its language and its finely structured plot along with Laclos’s ability to examine in such an unflinching way the fascination and power of evil. The battle of the sexes – which is also at the center of the book – is portrayed with deadly seriousness (the only real lack in the book is perhaps a touch of irony and humor). All frivolity and sentimentality have been banished from this book, which depicts a world that is deeply frivo
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MORAL CODES IN LITERATURE.
Term Paper ID:30658
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Analysis of three French committed writers.... More...
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Analysis of three French committed writers. Their common interest in characters whose moral codes are developed during extreme situations. Discusses two novels by Andre Malraux, two plays by Albert Camus, and one play by Jean- Paul Sartre. How the works reflect the authors' particular struggles, involvements and morality.
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In committed literature of the first half of the twentieth century the individual is guided by a moral code that is made rather than one that is received. Characters in novels by André Malraux and in plays by Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are inevitably placed in extreme situations where recourse to received notions of morality is at least impractical, and often impossible. It is impossible, of course, if the characters are to achieve freedom, as the men and women in these works attempt to do. For some characters the circumstances produce a retreat to the received codes, but these instances function as demonstrations of the futility of received notions of morality. The Grand Duchess in Camus' The Just Assassins (1949), for example, is overwhelmed by the world and retreats into faith. But her faith is shown to be a form of complicity with the order
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Discussion of Boccaccio's collection of short stories.... More...
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Discussion of Boccaccio's collection of short stories. His view, and the view of society of the Middle Ages, towards human nature. The book as an overview of life in the Middle Ages, including the Black Plague and how men and women structured their romantic and practical relationships. Storytellers as narrators.
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Boccaccio’s The Decameron
Boccaccio’s The Decameron consists of a collection of 100 novelle or short stories, each of which presents a realistic if pessimistic view of human nature as human nature was both understood and expressed in the Middle Ages. Created as a series of stories told sequentially on ten days, the book presents an excellent overview of the day-to-day routines of life in the Middle Ages, describes the Black Plague of 1348 in Florence, and also addresses the issue of how men and women structured their romantic and practical relationships.
Ten storytellers, including both males and females, are used as narrators by Boccaccio. The stories involve such disparate characters as monks and friars, Jews who convert to Christianity, lovers and enemies, exotic characters from the
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"THINGS FALL APART."
Term Paper ID:30576
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Analysis of Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel.... More...
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Analysis of Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel. Character of Okonkwo as a tragic hero. Classic tragic hero definition.. Okonkwo as a flawed hero.; his struggles. How African society and impact of white man in Africa is revealed through Okonkwo. Novel's themes of brutal destruction of native culture and inevitability of change.
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Published in 1958, Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart centers on a traditional Ibo village culture in Nigeria before and after the English came to Africa and changed a nation’s way of living. Both the brutal destruction of the native culture and the inevitability of change are themes in the novel which focuses on the character of Okonkwo who is caught in the middle of the struggles wrought by change. This research paper will analyze the character of Okonkwo as a tragic hero.
In ancient Greek literature a tragic hero has a tragic flaw that brings about his downfall. The classic tragic hero is always a character of great importance to his state or culture, usually of noble birth. Such heroes are complex characters, neither all good or all bad. As expressed in Aristotle’s “Poetics,” the tragic fall of the hero is what drives the plot
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ANTI-WAR FICTION.
Term Paper ID:30499
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Analysis of 3 works on the horrors of war.... More...
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Analysis of 3 works on the horrors of war. Bao Ninh's novel THE SORROW OF WAR, Michael Cimino's film THE DEER HUNTER, and Nguyen thi Minh Hgoc's short story THE MADAGASCAR PLUM. Vietnam war setting. Muteness of characters as a human response to the war. Common message of each work.
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All three of the works--Bao Ninh's novel The Sorrow of War, the Michael Cimino-directed film The Deer Hunter, and Nguyen thi Minh Hgoc's short story "The Madagascar Plum"--send powerful anti-war messages in which muteness in characters is used to convey the horror of war. In other words, that horror is so overwhelming that the characters who are most deeply affected by it are rendered incapable of even expressing themselves, their suffering, their rage, their helplessness, and any thought of emotion. They are, in a sense, completely deadened by the war, if we see self-expression as a requisite of true human existence, although they remain alive. The muteness of the three characters in the three works is also a kind of denial of what has happened to them. The little girl in Hgoc's story, for example, seems to be stuck in the past in her bombed village, returning to it to
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'LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE."
Term Paper ID:30445
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Examines the inheritance of family traditions in Laura Esquvel's book.... More...
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Examines the inheritance of family traditions in Laura Esquvel's book. Centers on one family of women in Mexico and how they deal with their inheritances of joy, grief and pain that have been passed down from generation to generation. How food is used in the book. Describes the characters, and the roles that they play in each other's lives.
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Introduction
Many things get passed down in families, from eye, hair and skin color to the grandfather clock in the front hall and the antique dishes in the china cabinet. Among these inheritances are the intangibles such as family traditions, mythologies and code of conduct. Sometimes these intangibles make life richer, other times they do nothing but make life bitter and hard. The book, Like Water for Chocolate, is about one family of women and how they deal with their particular inheritances of joy and grief and pain. Esquivel uses family recipes and home remedies to discuss the other intangible inheritances that have been passed down from generation to generation. In fact, the title is taken from a food term used in the book to describe one character’s fury with the outcome of things in her family (151).
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MARGUERITE DURAS' NOVEL "THE LOVER."
Term Paper ID:30259
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Examines psychoanalytic concepts applied to novel's narrator.... More...
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Examines psychoanalytic concepts applied to novel's narrator. Plot of novel & relationships in the story. Mother-daughter relationship. Bipolar mother. Daughter's defense mechanisims; self-awareness of her sexual power. Narrative perspective. Psychological diagosis. Internal psychology and external sociology. Freudian elements. Theories of Anna Freud, romm-Reichmann. Gestalt therapy.
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This research examines psychoanalytic concepts that are relevant to Marguerite Duras's novel The Lover. The research will explore the character of the narrator from the standpoint of a psychological diagnosis, first setting forth the narrative context in which the character's psychological attributes emerge and then discussing the narrative function of the character as well as her behavior in relationships that are explored in the novel.
Set in colonial Indochina in the 1920s and 1930s, The Lover is structured as a memoir of a French girl's adolescence marked chiefly by family pathology and a sexual initiation that has various attributes of socially forbidden love. The focus of the relationships in the story is on the declining mental condition of the narrator's mother and the 15-year-old narrator's relat
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"THE SORROW OF WAR."
Term Paper ID:30253
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of Bao Ninh's autobiographical novel.... More...
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Analysis of Bao Ninh's autobiographical novel. Summarizes the timeframe (Post American withdrawl from Vietnam), plot and ideas of the novel. Psychological trauma suffered by protagonist who fought with North Vietnamese. Episodic presentation of events. Protagonist's memory of his early days in the Vietnam War Book's message that war transforms the nature of human consciousness.
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This research examines the autobiographical novel The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, who was a North Vietnamese soldier during the Vietnam War and a ten-year veteran of the military. The research will set forth a summary of the novel and then discuss the pattern of ideas in the narrative and the means by which Ninh makes the ideas emerge, with a view toward identifying the message the author intends to convey through the work.
Opening just after the rainy season, which is also several months after the American withdrawal from Vietnam in April 1975, The Sorrow of War introduces the soldier Kien, now in his late twenties, who is participating in a missing-in-action "remains-gathering" team in a muddy jungle. Young as Kien is, he is a seasoned veteran of war action lasting some ten years, and this clean
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STRUGGLE OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AGAINST OPPRESSION.
Term Paper ID:30245
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Discusses the suffering Rigobuta Menchu endured as part of an exploited and abused people in Guatemala.... More...
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Discusses the suffering Ribobuta Menchu endured as part of an exploited and abused people in Guatemala. Her overcoming poverty and powerlessness and becoming a social and political activist to fight oppression in her native land. Indian culture. Peasant women in Latin America who refused to be passive and fought against oppression and injustice.
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Rigoberta Menchu, in I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, tells the story of her life in poverty and powerlessness and her gradual awakening to the necessity of social and political activism to fight the oppressive forces in her native land. The story of the evolution of her leadership ability, motivation and beliefs is told through the medium of interviews conducted by anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. Burgos-Debray argues that the book tells the life of not only one twenty-three-year-old woman, but also the society and culture of which her life is an integral part:
Her life story is an account of contemporary history rather than of Guatemala itself. It is in that sense that it is exemplary: she speaks for all the Indians of the American continent (Burgos-Debray xi).
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Analysis of Pa Chin's novel of conflicts in China & the Chinese family in the 1920s.... More...
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Analysis of Pa Chin's novel of conflicts in China & the Chinese family in the 1920s. Political and social awakening of young intellectuals & the upheavals on the nation, the family and individuals who wanted change, or fought against changes. Struggles of old with young, establishment with reforms. Females seeking liberation in Chinese patriarchal society.
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Pa Chin's novel Family describes the conflicts in China and the Chinese family in the 1920s, after the first communist movement of May 4th, 1919, when the old traditional, feudal ways began to be not only questioned but threatened by young intellectuals seeking reform throughout society, beginning with the educational system, as is the case with many revolutionary youth. The novel portrays the political and social awakening of that group and the effects of resultant upheavals on the nation, the family, and on individuals who either sought or fought against those changes. The old struggled with the young, the establishment struggled with reformers, and females sought liberation in a society which was changing but which was still thoroughly patriarchal.
The novel first focuses the social division created between
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"THE DRAGON VILLAGE."
Term Paper ID:30209
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Analysis of Yuan-tsung Chen's 1980 coming of age story of a young Chinese woman.... More...
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Analysis of Yuan-tsung Chen's 1980 story of a young Chinese woman. Fictional tale is paralleled with struggles Chinese people go through as their country adopts Communism. Role of women in China and how the Revolution effected them. Protagonist's fight for equality; breaking down barriers between the sexes.
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In Yuan-tsung Chen’s The Dragon’s Village (1980), the coming of age of a young woman, Ling-ling, is paralleled with the struggles that the people of China are going through as their country adopts communism. In the middle of revolution, land reform, and the Korean War, Ling-ling matures and discovers who she is as a woman and a person. Her tale reflects how the role of women in China frequently vacillated between emancipation and oppression during this time in history. Chen uses Ling-ling as well as the other women in her story as an example of what women in China were experiencing during this turbulent time, whether they were old, young, rich, poor, bourgeois, urban, or rural.
To understand how the revolution effected the lives of these women, one should first take a look at Chinese society and
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SAMUEL BECKETT AND POSTMODERNISM.
Term Paper ID:30071
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Discusses the revolt of the modernist writer/artist against traditional literary forms and subjects.... More...
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Discusses the revolt of the modernist writer/artist against traditional literary forms and subjects. Examples and definitions of modernist fiction. Difference between modernism and postmodernism. Beckett's DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN. His attempt to develop a narrative style reflecting the incoherence of human existence. Beckett's writings on Proust, James Joyce, Surrealism. His postmodern artistic strategies.
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Modernism
In A Glossary of Literary Terms, Meyer Abrams defines modernism as the term used to identify distinctive features in the concepts, sensibility, form, and style of literature and art since World War I (1914-1918). He notes that while the specific features signified by modernism varied with the user, most critics agreed the concept involved a deliberate and radical break with the traditional bases of Western culture and Western art (Abrams 108). In essence, the modernist artist revolted against traditional literary forms and subjects, and this revolt manifested itself strongly after the total destruction of World War I shook men's faith in the foundations and continuity of Western civilization and culture (Abrams 108).
Abrams offers T. S. Eliot as an example of a modernist
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ANCIENT FLOOD STORY.
Term Paper ID:30064
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Essay Subject:
Compares the flood story of Noah in THE BIBLE with the great flood in THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH.... More...
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Compares the flood story of Noah in THE BIBLE with the great flood in THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH. Links between the ancient Sumerian epic and the account of Noah in Genesis. Biblical account of Johah deriving from Mesopotamian originals. Similarities between the two accounts; use of the arc, sacrifice to their God, start of age-span for human beings.
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INTRODUCTION
The flood story recurs in many ancient civilizations, even in distant parts of the world, though the nature of the story may be very different in some cultures. There do seem to be links between the flood story as told in the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story of Noah as told in Genesis, in fact the older Sumerian tale may have served as the basis for the biblical account. There is recent evidence that there may have been a great flood in the area of the Black Sea
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E.T.A. HOFFMAN'S STORY "THE SANDMAN."
Term Paper ID:30059
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of the romantic horror story and critical interpretations.... More...
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Analysis of the romantic horror story and critical interpretations. Discusses Freud's interest and the application of his psychoanalytic theory to the story. Structuralist literary criticism. Analysis of personality of literary characters vs. application of cultural and literary codes to construct meaning. Contends both theoretical approaches supply insights into the characters, although each has its limitations.
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E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Sandman" is a striking account of the nearly inexplicable horror experienced by a man who is traumatized in childhood and whose fear returns in adulthood with tragic results. With four narrative voices, various characters' opinions about the nature of the main character's experience and feelings, a great deal of supernatural or uncanny material, and a sharp, surprising split between the earlier and later parts of the story it is a literary work that seems ripe for many kinds of criticism. Tales of Romantic horror often seem to lend themselves in particular to psychoanalytic criticism, especially when, like Hoffmann's tale, they seem to involve the disintegration of a character's personality and clearly involve childhood experience and sexual concerns. Indeed Sigmund Freud himself discussed the story at some length in his
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USE OF HUMOR IN TWO NOVELS.
Term Paper ID:30009
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Essay Subject:
Analysis and comparison of Samuel Beckett's WATT and Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA.... More...
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Analysis and comparison of Samuel Beckett's WATT and Vladimir Naboko's LOLITA. Both authors use of comedy and playfulness; their skillful story-telling. Beckett's philosophical ideas on futility to understand the world. Nabokov's use of the power of narrative art. Comic approach as a strategy used by both novelists to convey their ideas. Gives examples from the novels.
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If Samuel Beckett's Watt and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita were not so funny they could not be half as serious as they are about the objects they parody. The points they make--the former about philosophy, the latter about art--are painful enough even when the authors engage in a playful game of taking forms of discourse to 'logical' conclusions that are unwelcome to those who depend on these forms to make sense of the world. Beckett addresses the futility of human philosophical and theological attempts to understand the world with something as paltry as human reason and Watt's sad schizophrenia is the medium in which such attempts are parodied. Nabokov does much the same thing for the power of narrative art by persuading readers, against their will, to be gripped by--and sometimes even sympathetic to--a story told by a lying, self-deceiving, brutal child-molester simply through the
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ILLITERACY.
Term Paper ID:29931
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Essay Subject:
Discusses problems of illiteracy.... More...
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Discusses problems of illiteracy. Dangers posed by workers who can' t read. How and why people hide their illiteracy. Illiteracy as a handicap. Centers on Bernard Schlink's novel THE READER, a coming-of-age story. Importance of becoming literate. Cites example of character whose refusal to acknowledge her inabiltuy to read prevents her from proving her innocence in a war-crime trial.
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Illiteracy in ‘The Reader’
Aware that more than two billion people can neither read nor write the simplest message in any language, the United Nations. . .declared 1990 International Literacy Year. I've been reading for half a century, and it is as hard for me to imagine what it's like to be illiterate as it is to imagine what it's like to be mute, blind, and deaf. Being illiterate must be life imprisonment in a dark hole (Liefhebber, 1).
There were some people in Miami in the airport who were entrusted with maintaining the brake systems on air planes. They could not read a notice that was
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THE VULNERABILITY OF WOMEN.
Term Paper ID:29877
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Essay Subject:
Discusses the theme in three works of literature.... More...
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Discusses the theme in three works of literature. Women's secondary status in society and marriage. Their lack of power. Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler," Anton Chekov's story "The Lady With the Dog," Rabindranath Tagore's story "Punishment." Different ways in which each female protagonist copes with her marital situation. How each woman affirms her own value and autonomy.
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The Vulnerability of Women
In Hedda Gabler, “The Lady with the Dog,” and “Punishment,” the vulnerability of women within male-dominated societies occupies a central portion of each story. Women’s secondary status in society and within marriage and their lack of power or control over their own destinies is emphasized by, respectively, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekov, and Rabindranath Tagore. Though these women’s stories are set in radically different cultures and social systems, each of the female protagonists shares the recognition of their vulnerability though they cope with this issue in substantially different ways.
In Ibsen’s (p. 1467) Hedda Gabler, Hedda is described as a beautiful woman “always so surrounded by admirers” who “has to do things in style.” Married to Tesman, Hedda is an exceptional woman with a great d
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QUEST LITERATURE.
Term Paper ID:29876
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The cultivation of detachment.... More...
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The cultivation of detachment. Voltaire's "CANDIDE" and Wu Ch'eng-En's "MONKEY." "Monkey" as a representative of the Buddhist understanding of detachment. Three different quests of "Monkey:" to find enlightenment, knowledge and power. "Candide" as a depiction of rational detachment of Enlightenment Europeans. Voltaire's concept of evil and religion.
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The Pursuit of a Suitable Detachment
Quest literature such as Voltaire’s Candide and Wu Ch’eng-En’s Monkey often provides insight into cultural, philosophical, and religious interpretations of government, nature, man, and religion itself. In the two works referenced above, a major goal of the questing protagonists is ultimately the cultivation of detachment from the external world and its difficulties. Though Monkey represents the Buddhist understanding of detachment, Candide more clearly depicts the rational detachment of Enlightenment Europeans who find in their world far too many sources of confusion and trauma.
Monkey depicts a quest undertaken by Tripitaka, Monkey, Pigsy, and the dragon known as Sandy. Tripitaka is the frail human protagonist of this quest who ultimately exemplifies the Buddhist ideal
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NARRATIVE STRATEGIES OF TWO NOVELS.
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Compares and contrasts Isabel Allende's "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" and Manuel Puig's "KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN."... More...
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Compares and contrasts Isabel Allende's "THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS" and Manuel Puig's "KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN." Both novelists use of the political and cultural environment of Latin America. Theme of social criticism of each novel. Narrative core of action of Puig's book. Use of dreams and private thoughts of characters. Double narration in Allende's novel; first-person narrative and authorial voice.
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This research compares and contrasts the narrative strategies of novelists Isabel Allende and Manuel Puig in The House of the Spirits and Kiss of the Spider Woman, and discusses the means by which each author develops a theme of sharp social criticism in a narrative context of strong dramatic action.
A critique of neither The House of the Spirits nor Kiss of the Spider Woman can reach meaning without reference to the political and cultural environment of 19th- and 20th-century Latin America. The sharp divisions between rich and poor, the exploitation by European colonial masters of the indigenous peoples, encounters between indigenous and invading cultures, the role of the Catholic Church in shaping attitudes and social mores, and the clash of ideology and life choices are all aspects of this. In the late 1970s, when Kiss of the Spider Woman was written, and indeed into the m
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Analysis of Albert Camus' novel. The action of the State quarantining a city during a plague. Danger to uninfected individuals who cannot leave. The rights of individuals versus the power of the State. Goal of the State to protect the well-being of the community and State. The Individuals' objective to protect their families and private interests.
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The determination of the state’s absolute right to quarantine a city in the event of a plague is fundamentally determined by its impact on the right of the individual. Based on Albert Camus’ description of the plague in his novel, The Plague, it is evident that the state’s absolute right to quarantine a city violated the freedom of the individual in many ways. The most critical objection to the state’s imposition of the quarantine was the key fact that uninfected members of the town risk catching the infection by remaining in this town. Because of the state’s implementation of the quarantine, all these uninfected people were unable to travel out of the town where their chances of catching the plague would be decreased significantly. Exiled from the rest of the world, they were condemned prisoners, trapped in the town against their will
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Two novels based on their authors' experiences. Sahar Khalifsh's "WILD THORNS" and its theme of the economic dependence of the Palestinian people on Israel. Protagonist's decision to become a terrorist. Richard Kim's novel "LOST NAMES:SCENES FROM A KOREAN BOYHOOD." Impact of Japanese occupation and elimination of studies of Korean in schools. Effects of oppression and occupation.
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Post-colonial fiction is characterized by its authors' experiences as witnesses to occupation by foreign powers. Sahar Khalifeh’s Wild Thorns and Richard E. Kim’s Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood both capture the devastating impact of the political and socioeconomic oppression of the foreign and colonial occupation on their homelands. Both authors lived through the events they wrote about -- the cultivation of the economic dependence of the Palestinian people on Israel (Khalifeh 21), the elimination of the studies of Korean from schools (Kim 117), along with the brutal oppression of dissident activities. In both cases, the Israeli and Japanese occupiers had sought to stifle the Palestinians’ and Koreans’ efforts to assert their nationalist identities and aspirations (Khalifeh 73; Kim 6). The focus of this paper is to examine the diverse
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"WILD SWANS."
Term Paper ID:29578
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Analysis of Jung Chang's book. Difficult role of women in China during the 20th Century. Narratives of the women of the stories. Focus on three generations of women. Stories of the grandmother, mother and author. Practice of foot binding. Influence of Communism on women in China.
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Comparison of Two Incidents from “Wild Swans” by Jang Chung
Introduction
This paper will make compare and contrast the stories of two of the daughters of China as found in the book Wild Swans and use those comparisons and contrastings to make critical assumptions concerning the role of women in 20th Century China. This paper will use as its complete source material for all of its assumptions and arguments only those words and observations of Jung Chang. A reasonably candid and valid consideration of the role of women in China during the 20th Century can be assumed by an analysis of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans.
Comparisons
Both of the narratives of the two women who are named Yu Fang (and labeled the grandmother) and Ba Qin (who is labeled the moth
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Analysis of Bernhard Schlink's novel. Issue of German guilt for the Holocaust. How that guilt affected subsequent generations. Protagonist Michael as inheritor of collective guilt. Guilt over his relationship with Hanna; his knowledge that she had been a concentration camp guard. Collective and personal guilt.
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In the novel The Reader, author Bernhard Schlink explores the issue of German guilt for the Holocaust and how that guilt affects subsequent generations who ask who is responsible, who participate in the guilt even though they were not there, and who in effect inherit the guilt from their parents. This is true for the protagonist, who inherits this collective guilt even though his parents were not Nazis and did not participate themselves. Michael Berg is the young man who wrestles with issues of guilt and moral meaning, and he does so in a way that suggests that we can never answer these questions fully and that the interconnections among people and among elements in their lives make it difficult to give clear and certain answers. At some level, Michael simply has to accept that certain things just are, and this includes his own uncertainty.
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOVE.
Term Paper ID:29428
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Analysis of a Chinese story. "Tu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger." Social and political climate of China of the time. Glorified meaning of romantic love. Love between a father and son, between friends, self-sacrificing love and self-serving love. Difficulties of the romantic love relationship; betrayal.
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Introduction
Love. One little four-letter word with as many meanings as there are people in the world -- multiplied exponentially. In fact, at least half if not most of the stories and poems written, songs sung, and movies and plays produced are about various types of love. Yet, of all the meanings, assumptions, baggage, traditions, and stories associated with love, the most glorified meaning is romantic love. It is because of the many pitfalls of glorified, romantic love that stories like “Tu Shih-Niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger” are written. “Tu Shih-Niang” specifically addresses not only romantic love, but also the love between a father and son, between close friends, self-sacrificing love, and self-serving love. This paper will explore and discuss the five different types of love found in “Tu Shih-Niang Sinks
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Jung Chang's biographical book. Chinese history during the 20th Century. Compares and contrast two stories from the book that depict the role of women in China. Importance of the extended nuclear family in China. Non-importance of women. Describes the custom of foot binding. Women's position in the Communist Party.
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Comparison of Two Incidents from
“Wild Swans” by Jang Chung
Introductiono
Wild Swans is a book by a Chinese author Jung Chang that is part autobiography and part biography.Chang writes about three women -- her grandmother (Yu Fang), her mother (Ba Qin) and herself. When the three lives are considered together, they become a unique tapestry that shows the highlights of Chinese history during the last century. This paper will compare and contrast two tales he tales also show a strong picture of the role of women in China.
We have the tales of Yu Fang at the beginning of the book. This woman, who came from a poor and unschooled family, became the concubine of a warlord. During this first tale in the book, called “Three Inch
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VOLTAIRE.
Term Paper ID:29242
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Essay Subject:
Analysis of "CANDIDE" from a biographical point of view.... More...
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Analysis of "CANDIDE" from a biographical point of view. Intellectual energy of the Enlightenment period. "CANDIDE" as Voltaire's social and historical criticism. The work as a satiric attack on the philosophy of Leibniz. Voltaire's cultural concerns. Thematic concerns in "CANDIDE." Voltaire's use of characters and situations to dramatize unreason. His exile from France.
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This research provides an analysis of Voltaire's Candide from a biographical |
