... of material for investigation. As the analysis will focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to ... ascribing initiation to a story" (Marcus 192)), as it may prove difficult to provide evidence of this permanency. 3. Analysis of Hemingway′s short fiction By taking into account the above considerations about the nature of stories of initiation...

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... in cyberspace. Computers Coming of Age 1970's At the start of the 1970's, the idea of computer animation for use in movies was still a dream in the minds of most film directors. Although computer animation began in television. Television producers took existing images and changed their characteristics using a computer ... was a computer-modeled version of simple objects, such as a virtual teapot and a modeled VW Beetle. During this time, a showing of a computer animated short film didn't win over many people watching. The only person who didn't hate it completely was George Lucas. In fac...

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... abandon her Catholicism, and started to write and publish. Her first novel -At Fault- was published in 1890, followed by two collections of short stories, "Bayou Folk- in 1894 and "A Night in Acadia- in 1897. "The Awakening-, another popular story written by her, was published in 1899, and by then she was well ... to be spontaneous, and normally she wrote her stories all at once, with little revision. "After the public uproar over The Awakening-, Kate wrote only seven short stories between 1900 and 1904. She died on August 22, 1904, after she suffered a stroke while visiting the St. Loui...

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WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land ... . The story tells of the brutality we're capable of, but also that aching, intimate love. And for me the twins are what that is about...the ability to actually dream each other's dreams and to share each other's happiness and pain." There aren't any lasting positive relationships in the book. Marr...

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... throughout the novel is not ordinary light, but one that illuminates the void of darkness. Just like the moths that Patrick is intrigued by that only tend toward light at night, Patrick only seeks light when there is none around him. Patrick continues his eternal search for light because he has none of his own to emit. Without this element, he ... that have chosen to take on that responsibility. "His own life was no longer a single story but part of a mural, which was a falling together of accomplices. Patrick saw the wondrous night web- all these fragments of a human order."" Through t...

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... trucks or newsstands. No TV studios to operate. No satellites to rent. 4. Interactivity. Newsgroups, chat rooms and other discussion forums offer an instant soap box. And an audience. 5. Open all night. It is never too late to break a story on the Internet. For example people can post their opinions on certain issues so others can read them and reply. Like this ... ...

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... top of them. Marlow seems to be realizing the weight a name can carry and how easily things are labeled, but also mislabeled. Marlow points out that the name Kurtz' means short in German. However, looking at Kurtz, he remarks how Kurtz "looked at least seven feet long- and that his "name was as true as everything else in his life-(p 85 ... ...

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