Most of the time this incompetence stems from the same mistake; the authors are unable to passably use a stylistic device to entice their readers. [In Boy's Life, Robert McCammon beautifully conveys not one, but three superb stylistic devices that immediately captivate his audience.] When reading Boy's Life, one of the most eye-catching elements is the setting. ... In Boy's Life, Robert McCammon fabulously uses his storytelling power along with three stylistic devices to present his story in such a way that it will be well remembered for years to come....

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According to Madun Sarup, modernism and postmodernism share many elements. ... The elements of postmodernism that differentiate it from modernism can be simplified as follows: no boundary between art and everyday life; self-referentiality; fragmentation of time into a series of perpetual presents; parody/playfulness; stylistic eclecticism and the mixing of codes, and reality transformed into images. Space constraints require that we deal in depth only with the first three elements. ... Pessoa even created relatives for his heteronyms: Reis had a brother who wrote literary criticism on his...

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Nowhere is this more evident than in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, in which each writer used elements of literature in various ways to create the literary classics for which they are famous. ... Dickens incorporated many different stylistic nuances in his work- at times he was satiric, tragic, comedic, and dramatic depending on the situation. ... By employing literary elements in a variety of methods, Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemmingway respectively generated the classical pieces Great Expectations and A Farewell to Arms. ...

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The American Revolution was successful due to many key elements and individual. ... In his speech, Henry was a variety of literary techniques to envoke his fellow Americans into the quest for liberty. ... One of the reasons that his speeches were so effective was that he used a variety of stylistic devices. These stylistic devises include allusion, simile, metaphor, and repetition. ... The final stylistic device that Henry uses is repetition. ...

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"Vulgarity" in The Woman Warrior -----A Stylistic exploration Abstract: The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... In this paper, I make a brief analysis on the stylistic feature of this book on the part of "the abuse of vulgarity", so as to find out whether it is so vulgar to offend the readers or it is just because of the postmodern tact that is arranged by the writer engenders the gap between the book and the readers. ... As In the next part, I would take some effort to look into on...

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Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the film, television and music industries, in this course we will study literary and cinematic narratives dealing with fame and notoriety alongside academic and popular studies of celebrity in America in order to relate these many functions to each other in terms of both historical continuity and historical change over the course of the last century. ... King offers a remarkably lucid examination of both the larger trends in the business-end of movie-making production and presents original takes on the thematic and stylistic elements of spec...

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Introduction Modernism in our text is defined as stylistic innovations, its willingness to disrupt traditional syntax and form, to mix together modes or levels of writing that had often been kept separate, and to risk irregularity and experimentation in order to challenge the audience's preconceived notions of value and order. ... Contradictory Elements Modernism contains several elements, each contradicting the other. ... Literary Achievements One of the areas of modernism is what is termed today as "women's liberation". ...

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Meaning of film noir as metaphysical rather than social, and as dealing with angst and loneliness as essential elements of the human condition. ... Film noir is almost exclusively located in the forties and fifties (although there are slight exceptions to this rule, The Usual Suspects' was made in the nineties and contains elements of film noir.) ... (Schrader 1972) Critics such as Durgnat and Schrader avoid the problem of defining film noir according to genre by suggesting that the term film noir' can be best described as films, which share certain stylistic elements. ... (Nev...

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The style and language are simple and clear, and it is easy to follow the action, even though stylistic sophistication of Kafka's writing lies in this very simplicity. ... Overall Franz Kafka was successful in illustrating the theme life, consciousness, and existence in his short story a hunger artist through his elaborate use of literary elements, and his wise word choice. ...

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There are many different stylistic elements used throughout the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert. ... These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... Evans provides a detailed overview of the beggar's physical ailments, and then interjects, Medically this is a complex picture, and the blindness appears to be no more than one symptom among many .Generations of literary critics have mocked Homais' attempts to cure the beggar wi...

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There are many different stylistic elements used throughout the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert. ... These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... Evans provides a detailed overview of the beggar's physical ailments, and then interjects, Medically this is a complex picture, and the blindness appears to be no more than one symptom among many .Generations of literary critics have mocked Homais' attempts to cure the beggar wi...

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It achieves an atmosphere of monumental dignity through the balanced arrangement of its" elements and the contours of its" figures. ... Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. ... In Expressionism artists tried to present an emotional experience in its most compelling forms, through visual, literary, and performing arts. ... The merging of these conflicting elements suggests an alternative, or sur-reality, as the movements name implies. ...

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Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement in Western civilization from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. ... Cropsey employs a variety of artistic techniques to create realistic and stylistic elements. ... One of the most important elements of The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley is its lighting and how it affects the other objects in the painting. ...

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Bronte's theme of how a person can be manipulated into love and often times has to find her own integrity in the process, by using the literary elements such as plot and characterization. ... Bronte also uses the stylistic character element of speech to induce a thought that the words of some admirable people often influence others. ... Yet character elements are not the only means of Bronte's way to display the theme. ...

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Courage, audacity and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry. ... The French literary circles surrounding him affected his future ideas. ... They became simular stylistically, with Boccioni using divisionism to a large extent in his work. ... This approach was to replace the common method of breaking up the environment into individual elements. ...

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Elements or features include the action, composition, sets, props, lighting, costumes, make-up, cinematographic style and technique, and visual properties. ... Many of his stylistic techniques draw attention to his directorial brilliance and to the film's fiction much like an author of postmodern literary metafiction sacrifices realism to explicitly expose his artistic craft or to comment on the subjectivity of reality in his work. ... Fincher's films contain elements that play with typical conventions to make the audience question the reality being presented. ...

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There are many determents of evaluating the meaning and purpose of a poem, taking into consideration the various literary techniques, structure, language, imagery and rhythm used in order to represent their beliefs. ... They are contrasted elements in a single design, The Songs of Innocence represent an imaginative vision of the state of innocence: the second shows how life challenges and corrupts and destroys it. ... Stylistically, the poem is constructed of pairs of rhyming couplets and written in quatrains. ...

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The stanza ends with the literary equivalent of a Cubist subject. ... This stylistic choice is a large part of the message. ... In using a Modernist style like this literary Cubism, he is both condemning and praising, rejecting and using the values of the modern world. ... These elements of his life that he describes in Not Without Laughter certainly seem to be reflected throughout his literary career. ... It makes extensive use of the very same literary Cubism, the same dual-identity themes that run through the rest of his work. ...

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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, fo...

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While it is brutal reporting, there are some elements it shares with a war story marked by realism and the experiences and feelings of individuals overwhelmed by death and destruction. ... This work does illustrate characteristics of literary nonfiction. ...

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It is an easily accessible work, that the Dadaist Duchamp would label "retinal art", as it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... The painting conforms to stereotypical representations of the male body who is an agent of action, the rowers enforce their will upon the elements of nature (water, wind) and surge forward to the finish line, symbolic of the glorious future. ... These two elements, the reference to the past, and the celebration of the Nordic physicality, work to imbue the Nazi's political program (represented by its leader) as principled, trus...

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Duchamp would name retinal art, because it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... The painting conforms to stereotypical representations of the male body who is an agent of action, the rowers enforce their will upon the elements of nature and surge forward to the finish line, symbolic of the glorious future. ... These two elements, the reference to the past, and the celebration of the Nordic physicality, work to imbue the Nazi's political program as principled, trustworthy, and pure, therefore above criticism. ...

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Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. His name is legendary. Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. Based on his experiences, this paper examines the ro...

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One of Jackson's good life influences was Thomas Hart Benton who not only gave him his first true guidance in painting, but also introduced him to popular literature on psychology and to literary friends with special interest in the mind and its workings. ... His drawings also were different in the way he approached them stylistically; some were very accurately drawn showing crisp edges, finished delicately. ... There was something else, a strong bond with the elements. ...

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As the above citation shows, the possibility of reading Hemingway′s short fiction as stories of initiation is supported in literary theory. ... In general, one can say that there is no single precise and universally applicable definition of stories of initiation in literary theory. ... In American literary theory the term first appears after World War II (Freese 94). As the term `initiation′ is borrowed from anthropology, many of the definitions of the literary equivalent are oriented on the original concept. ... There are, however, still some definitions which also find parts of...

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