... behavior in everyday (western) life. Furthermore, these ritualistic initiation stories include "adult society deliberately testing and indoctrinating the young" (Marcus 190), which is only found in a "very small proportion of works called initiation stories" (Marcus 190). 2.2 Theoretic approaches to the initiation-theme in literature Here, some attempts to define and categorize stories of initiation regarding typical elements will be shortly presented ... the Caesarian his father is doing, which is an unusual cruel process as Dr. Adams makes no use of an anaesthetic (""No. I haven′t a...

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... Franz Kafka uses a style of writing that has a similar effect, and has been compared to a literary Rorschach test, which causes the reader to determine "hidden" meanings in his works, depending on what they wish to see or read (Link 4). Additionally, Kafka's writing in "The Metamorphosis" was translated from German into English and many have speculated, including the ... elephant in the room, which neither wishes to be dealing with. Jig is a white elephant to the man, and the baby, a white elephant to Jig. Both Kafka's and Hemingway's literary works are intentionally ambiguous. In "Hills...

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... of his themes are conveyed by some element of the setting. Hawthorne himself was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and set the majority of his works there. He grew up just slightly later than the time period considered the colonial Puritan times. Still, he developed some strong views concerning the ... sexual elements because it was not appropriate for the time period he lived in due to the lingering Puritanical outlooks. Whether the plots of his works contain stories of the Puritans, descriptions of witchcraft, or thoughts on Salem, the setting is usually critical to Hawthorne's themes, es...

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... the society, but today with the resurgence of women's rights, her books have taken on a new light. Many women like Alice Kessler-Harris who has revived some of Yezierska's earlier works connects to this book very deeply (Yezierska-Harris v). Yezierska herself said that her work was for a future generation, that she would not be recognized until much later. As stated by ... . In 1981 they were married, and collaborated on several projects one of which was Love Medicine. They were separated in 1995 and in 1997 he committed suicide. Some of her works have appeared in the New England Review ...

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... to improve my writing fluency and succinctness, without having to sacrifice hours to achieve that. Then and only then will I be a confident writer. I am however confident that some of the works I've written meet my standards of high quality writing, though they like most of writing did take long hours to perfect. They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry ... a writer, as well as a person, and this growth has yet to stop. The diverse, flexible world of AR offers a key environment for aspiring writers such as myself. By reading the works of these fellow amateurs, I learn f...

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... in Carver's collection Cathedral published in 1983. With its publication he finally received the critical praise he had longed for. Cathedral is generally considered to be one of Carver's finest works. The book was also Pulitzer Prize nominated book. The story is narrated in first person and is about a blind man who is coming to visit the narrator and his wife ... , Wallace. 2007: 2827). Consequently, we found it interesting to analyze the story literarily and support our discussion with evidences from the context and the critical opinions about Carver and his works. Biography Born in Cl...

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... fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close ... list, some of my students were in favour of including short stories from other regions such as South Asia, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Islands, being prone to embrace the works from periphery. The l...

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... in so doing, teaches the narrator how to experience a cathedral. By so doing, Robert facilitates growth in the narrator. Themes Alienation and Loneliness Like the characters in many of Carver's works, the main characters experience, or have experienced, alienation and loneliness. The narrator is unhappy in his work, jealous of his wife, and unconnected to other human beings. In addition to ... assumption. "My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn't like what she saw," he reports. A second way that Carver works collaboratively with the ...

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... literature of cognitive estrangement ." This is an excellent example of this. This is why Lafferty appealed to so many. Okla Hannali is one of the more well know of Lafferty's works. This work is not a science fiction, but rather an epic narrative of Indian history in Lafferty style. . Being raised in Oklahoma probably sparked the interest in the Five Civilized Tribes ... put science fiction back on track. Lafferty's collection of essays shows this evolution to continue. It is possible that Moskowitz would agree with this assumption after reading more of Lafferty's works. Robert Scholes...

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... and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Galens 2002:281). Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde in the nineteenth century demonstrates both the transformation and the influence ... ...

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... . No amount of discipline could ever change his set ways unless Paul did so on his own. He is happiest when he is at Carnegie Hall, a concert hall where he works as an usher. When he is not physically at Carnegie Hall, his thoughts remain there causing his school work to suffer. When his father finds out about his problems in ... ...

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... sure, a hope that was cracked and dissipated a dozen times a day, a hope mothered by mockery, but, nevertheless, a hope that would be brawn and sinew to his self-respect." (p. ll9). Anthony never works, he wanders aimlessly. He is unable to stay in love with Gloria. He is a man of dreams and illusions. His traces of violence and his need to dominate his women ... ...

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... . Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. The story works very well because of the fact that it was constructed step by step. Each step helps put another brick in the wall and improves our understanding. Du Maurier does this ... ...

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... by inferring about Mrs. Mallard's condition. When all of this, plus the irony of Mrs. Mallard's excitement is depicted, the theme of the story, the irony of fate, is conveyed. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour, in Cassill, R.V., ed., The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, sixth edition, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000. (260-263). Kate Chopin's use ... ...

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... common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives." This exposition comes from his thoroughly descriptive diction as the setting is exposed to the reader. In many of Poe's works, setting is used to render a dark and gloomy picture in the reader's mind. It is these images that help to set the stage for those twisted conflicts, which Poe so ... ...

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... . Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. The story works very well because of the fact that it was constructed step by step. Each step helps put another brick in the wall and improves our understanding. Du Maurier does this ... ...

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