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    natural vicinity and affinity with literature. Much before his wife Carol and his mother Olive encouraged him to read and write. His house was full of books. Quite in his early life, he read The Holy Bible, Morte d'Arthur, Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, The Return of the Native, etc. He had a keen interest in the books of Walter Scott, Jack London and R. L. Stevenson. He was attracted to the Greek historians and literature too. His childhood friend, Max Wagner left a great impact on him. Wagner

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    Mou, Xianfeng. “Kate Chopin's Narrative Techniques and Separate Space in ‘The Awakening.”” The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 44, no. 1, 2011, pp. 103–120. The fundamental purpose of this scholarly article is to express Kate Chopin’s narrative techniques, manly focusing on her use of free indirect discourse throughout her novel The Awakening. Furthermore the author evaluates the purpose of these techniques and how they help develop the protagonist in the novel, into becoming a true representation

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    Critical Theory

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    Choose 2 theories from Semester 1 and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the theories’ application. In this essay two theories will be examined in regards to their advantages and disadvantages, when applied. For this, Feminism and Post-Colonialism will be used, as both theories unite in their aim to deconstruct the dominant ideologies and stereotypes in a patriarchal and imperialistic ‘white European male ’ dominated society, thus overthrowing centuries of colonization, subordination

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    intruder on the rights of men –Madwoman in the Attic (1) Woman were taught to be seen and not heard, they were to be oogled by men, while being silent and angelic like creatures themselves such as the infamous ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert where gynocritics have analysed Emma Bovarys position in an imperial society ‘interpreting her existential malaise and obsession with fantasy as a product of her limited role in bourgeois society’. In Tony Tanners article for example he argues that Emmas sickness

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    St. Louis And New Orleans

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    Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1851, in St. Louis, Missouri, into a socially prominent family with roots in the French past of both St. Louis and New Orleans. Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, an immigrant from Ireland, had lived in New York and Illinois before settling in St. Louis, where he prospered as the owner of a commission house. In 1839, he married into a well-known Creole family, members of the city’s social elite, but his wife died in childbirth only a year later

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    Silvia Parra Dela Longa Professor: Leslie Richardson ENGL 2342 26 February 2017 The Style of Ernest Hemingway According to critic Robert McCrum, associate literary editor of The Observer, and writer of six novels (theguardian.com) The Sun also Rises ranks number 53 on the list of the 100 best novels of 20th century American Literature. Why does The Sun Also Rises is respected as landmark in the world of words? One of the reasons is about the writing style of Hemingway, which transformed the path

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    The Plight of Changing Home from the Hill was the epitome of struggling and suffering of Minnelli as an auteur. The film was released in the 1960 when the studio system had struggled to remain in American cinema. The market was no longer satisfied with the studio setting, and instead it started embracing the natural setting--the true reality. The arrival of the new trend changed and challenged the technique and style of Minnelli. In the studio, Minnelli could control and reshape the reality for his

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    A Look at Nihilism in Madame Bovary and Macbeth Nihilism Nihilism which comes from the Latin word, Nihil means nothing, to destroy completely, as seen in it being the base of the annihilation. Nihilism is the idea that all beliefs and ideals are without foundation and that nothing can truly be identified or known. "Every belief, every considering something-true, is necessarily false because there is simply no true world" (Nietzsche). Nihilism tends to be related to skepticism and pessimism by many

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    wrote around three hundred short stories. He was a master of his works and many of his famous works were associated with caustic endings. The Necklace is perhaps his most famous work, which has been also called Madame Bovary in miniature. The story depicts a middle class woman, Madame Mathilde Loisel, who was obsessed with luxuries of the noblemen.. Mathilde was invited for a ball, where she borrowed a diamond necklance from Mrs Forrester, Unfortunately, she lost the necklace and worked

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    Postmodern Art Essay

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    Postmodern art decided to make revolutionary break with past and questioned previous theories known as “big narratives” of art, politics, economics and overall culture in order to create new theories. The big part of postmodern theory deals with the belief of preexistence of the art all around us. The artist is the one who can recognize these elements of art around as and synthesize them into the art work. This art work becomes object of interpretation which inevitably varies among different generations

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