... in a certain way, an amplification (in the rhetorical sense) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer" (Genette 30). "A narrative is a long sentence," writes Roland Barthes (84). Narratology's project is the diagramming of that sentence, the discovery of its grammar and syntax. These critical assumptions have been influential in redirecting modern formal criticism of fiction ... , partly because-particularly in the work of Genette-they have generated a prolific and precise taxonomical vocabulary, an elaborate apparatus for the dissection of the litera...

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... multiple within hypertext and hypermedia and can be seen in the different aspects of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, text, audio, video etc. In effect to make short multimedia works. "Digital Storytellers are artists and writers that are passionate about combining the ancient arts of storytelling with the new and ... fiction and nonfiction (Mullen, 1999)." Many people recently have begun to explore the narrative potential of online role playing (Mullen, 1999). Examples of role-playing environmen...

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... general, Minnelli tends to romanticize the story, even sentimentalize it, making Emma much more of a sympathetic heroine than seems to be the case in Flaubert's text. Much of the ironic tone of the novel is lost. Minnelli also omits from his film all scenes which are not directly connected with Emma. The ... Flaubert's novel are ignored for the most part. Chabrol, on the other hand, attempts to be scrupulously faithful to the text and spirit of the novel. The director claims that virtually every word of dialogue in the film was taken directly from Flaubert ... picture--the occasion for ...

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... , prompting the family to move to Baltimore, the place in which Tyler still resides, although now widowed, and where many of her novels and short stories are set, especially Baltimore's Roland Park-the "epitome of upper-middle class waspdom in all its glory" (DISCovering Authors). Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household ... ...

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... convey strong emotional feelings. This, irritates him because "he could not write like a writer of histories and could not write without passion- Besides, leading us into the characters mind, de Bernieres, takes the reader a step further and presents us with the descriptive historical background of Cephallonia, his intention is to create a vivid image of the island for the reader. In ... is presented to an important figure of Modern History: Mussolini, the Italian dictator. The Duce' is featured to us in a dramatic monologue, here his character is exaggeratedly ridiculed by de Bernieres...

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... at it own historical moment. New criticism has a belief in the study of literature as independent of historical or authorial origins. The New Critics believed in this idea of the text in itself'. Richards tries to explain literary reading in terms of modern semantics and psychology. His new criticism is psychological criticism which is not spontaneous response, but psychological response. It ... gives names to meanings. Husserl focused on things as they show themselves. The philosophy was to "let things appear as they are" or to refrain from reading our presuppositions into a text. The p...

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... the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. The Test by Angelica Gibbs has used such elements of narrative such as setting, characterisation and diction ... engaging story. In order to do so, authors employ certain elements of narratives to further develop the reader's engagement and understanding of such a text. Through such techniques is the author able to engage the reader by drawing on the reader's context to further d...

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... also be seen that whilst a Marxist reader would imply the economic benefits alone would enable reproducibility, that also popular consumption and reception of the text, brings it classical status. Furthermore, it should be understood that whilst an unrepresentative sample of texts in the canon would not be acceptable today ... to the reader or by patriotism of the institution of education. The import of which should not be overlooked in the process of the text becoming canonic, "there is an organisation of opinion, which may either facilitate or inhibit the individuals manner in doing int...

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... her relationship with Charlie. Symbolism is a technique used effectively to convey this theme of disillusionment, and is I my view crucial to the success of the text .The main usage of symbolism is to parallel Charlie and the bike. One example of this symbolism is when we are told that Annie had to wait ... bike's handle bars are said to be "cold" it could also be said of Charlie's character that he can be "cold" as shown later in the text. He makes use of this technique because it is a short story and for the twist at the end to work the writer needs to leave clues so ... talks about h...

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... , as it is one of the characters making the factual statement. Although Anne Deveson wrote the book for an educational purpose, she additionally wrote it to expose Jonathon's story. The text contains writing conventions that are required in a novel, such as characters, setting, narrative structure, chapters, chronological order and a 1st person narrator. The events of his beleaguered life are ... onwards, following his first incidence, pg.10. Selective detail is used in stories to influence the reader to feel a particular way about a character or issue. It's used within this text to achie...

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... its plot, the parable also demonstrates various other themes including forgiveness, parental love, anger, and jealousy. The text is a short story being told by the character of another text, Jesus. By the nature and commonly known background of this character, this story may be interpreted as having the ... 't provide a detailed description of main events but rather emphasizes on character reactions and interactions, therefore effectively illustrating various human tendencies in a short text. The conclusion to the parable also seems be left open ended since we don't know what happened af...

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... book bound tales came along with a series of illustrations and images that were "very much in conformity with the text" (429). Zipes details that the illustrations often enriched and deepened the tale because they were subservient and strictly based on the text itself. He then points out that in the next great revolution, the genre of film, animators created images but also ... imposed them on the text and formed their own text in violation of print (430). The legitimacy of the text no longer mattered, as Zipes claims that to Disney, all importance was focused on the images which "inten...

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... after reading a random romance novel, you feel you have gained some educational value or you have put another piece of the puzzle into your life, then one can define such text as "literature". Until then, romance novels are non-literary. Children's books, however, do add value to a child's life by means of imagination and education. To a child, a simple piece of ... text or a short story is defined as "literature" because that child will grow from reading or having read to him or her text. Dah Chen's "Colors of the Mountains" is a valued piece of literature because within this text is h...

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... literature effectively assists the exploration of universal themes of the human experience. The need to attain a sense of belonging is shown distinctly within Lowry's text through capturing relationships – social, familial, interpersonal and personal – which allows the reader to grasp a deeper understanding of the power of ... place and not just to a group or society. Through Asher, who feels the sense of belonging towards Byron Bay, the effect that text types have on a story is explored, and through the use of the letter in the book the reader is shown personal emotions and feelin...

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... At first I found the novel very tedious to read and lacking in the action that was promised by the title but as I continued through the text I became engrossed in this violent story of animal people and animal customs set in the overpowering heat of the Australian outback. The language, I found ... at times a labour to fully comprehend. Although as the storyline became more erratic I sometimes found myself lost in the speech of the text in which the main character thinks to himself which matches in some ways how erratic the character's life has become. One of the first things I ... notic...

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... earthy presence and naturalism to the field of detective fiction. Marele Day both challenges and conforms to the conventions of hard-boiled detective fiction in order to produce a feminist text that explores interesting ideas about power, corruption and life's facades. Day's crime thriller 'The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender' explores the basic characteristics of traditional detective ... fiction along the streets of Sydney while introducing an inversion of the genre. The literary elements of plot development, characterisation, setting and themes, combined with the characteristic...

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... be happen even in more strange situation. Secondly, the concept of unnatural minds is related to narration. Unnatural narration is when something impossible in life is set forth in the text. This can be as common as the ability of a narrator to disclose the contents of the mind of another, as routinely occurs in third person "omniscient" narration. More ... Tell-Tale Heart; is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe in which the narrator tries to persuade us of his sanity while he is describing a murder that he committed. This text constantly alternates between the past and the present tense w...

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... firstly theme then plot, characterization, style, setting, and finally point of view. These fields will show a how "looking for alibrandi" is defined as fiction literature. The main theme of the text "looking for Alibrandi" is most probably the growth and development of the main character Josephine Alibrandi. The theme is subtle in how it is presented into the book it, Josephine ... Josephine has developed. I think also as table 1.1 or the reading by Goforth says, "What is the significance of the title?" plays a large part in the choosing of the book the text "Looking for Alibrandi" I b...

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... removal of the mocking voice of the composer. Subsequently, the writerly form of the novel, drawing the responder in through use of rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. Appearances are one of the most influential satirical devices in both book and film; however ... this is approached very differently in each medium. In the written text, the use of description is important, the appearances of the characters overexaggerated to be unlike the typical fairytale. Prince...

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... patterns. The beginning of The Chance is the foremost section of the story which the reader is in limbo with deciphering between the two concepts of reality. Evidence from the text describes the Fastalogians; 'their clothes were worn badly, ill-fitting, often with childish mistakes, like buttoning the third through the fourth buttonhole' (Carey, 1995 p. 3). Carey forces hesitancy into the ... Crabs only reality. In reference to the story, the indefinability, fundamentally the conclusion is significant as it 'challenges the reader's determination to make a logical connection be...

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... . There are no breaths for air and there are no significant interruptions. When the daughter does manage to interrupt her mother, she is silenced and almost seamlessly incorporated into the text. When the daughter argues that she doesn't, "sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school," the mother immediately and without thought continues her instructions with, "this is ... and expectations. The fact that the story has a simple title with simple characters and lacks a clearly definable plot does much to enhance its significance. We are forced to take the text at face value with...

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... adventurous aspect to the novel, suggested by the title, and the nouns "mist" and "haze", which are pathetic notion for obscurity and indistinctness, has not been carried through into the text. Throughout the opening pages, Conrad pays close attention to detail. His subtle handling of the complex imagery those surfaces from the first few lines of the novel, fabricate the scene ... we are about to hear of one of Marlow's "inconclusive experiences". It is through Marlow's indecisiveness that the novel achieves its air of ambiguity, and in a sense, imbedded into the text is the manner in w...

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... out to kill an innocent man. This particular extract ties in with the overall themes present in the novel, which are courage, innocence and growth, and prejudice through racism. The text is constructed as a first person narration from the adult of Jean-Louise Finch, in retrospect to when she was six. Lee's disapproving, sceptical attitude to the events has been revealed ... . Including the Jail incident in her novel allowed Lee to further explore the central theme of the innocence of child mentality, and the growth from innocence to understanding. Constructing the text in the first perso...

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... novel shows that change can be unexpected and subtle. Throughout the novel there are many techniques used to give the responder a certain perspective, the structure, characterization and themes of the text contribute greatly in the changing of perspective. The particular level of language in this book is not that hard to understand thus the book being aimed at teenagers. As the ... a first person narration this technique gives us a look through the eyes of the main character and how having a different life from that of a normal teenager can skew ones views. The text is lineally structur...

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... can be traced back to Shakespeare, familiarity with his works can only be an advantage to the student. Shakespeare wrote his plays to appeal to Elizabethan audiences. Much of the text is dated or archaic and is initially unknown to the typical student. Yet upon thorough study, the student will gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of Shakespeare's words and the English ... language. Despite the difficulty that dated text presents, the passions and emotions described by Shakespeare touch the hearts of his readers and audience, students included. Vivid imagery and poetic descriptions ...

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