... a representation of twentieth-century feminist thought. It explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and highly provocative investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. These conditions -leisure time, privacy, and financial independence- are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived ... that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently, and that each of these differences has h...

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... judgments that call Woolf's stance wholly nihilistic." (Bloom, Modern Critical Views: Virginia Woolf pp. 1-6) Woolf was motivated by her feminist causes in writing To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway: Although these novels do not explicitly state feminist doctrines, the main characters in both are independent women who ... novel's biting social commentary and uninhibited, by 1920s" standards, stream of consciousness style attest to the profundity of Woolf's prose. Woolf's goal in writing these novels was not entertainment; she was eliciting social change to the best of her abilities. From...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... at the University of California at Berkeley, sees digital storytelling as "a balance between an historically grounded, human-centred appreciation of good storytelling skills and a sophisticated grasp of the creative potential of a new set of digital tools (Mullen, 1999)." This is an important aspect for not only people involved in digital storytelling but in general multimedia and gaming environments ... write in traditional forms. " The interactive writer has to be a master of most linear scriptwriting skills, as well as understanding the communication potential of interactivity and the...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Analysis of Truman Capote and his Writing Style and Techniques Truman Capote's innovative and controversial techniques earned him celebrity status and fame as a professional author. He was called a pioneer of his times, even though there are supporters ... anecdotes. It also specifies character and admits the busyness of social relations more than its darker counterpart [the dark or nocturnal side of Capote's writing]" (Ozick 83). Capote had a lot of success with his "lighter side" of writing; he earned critical acclaim as well as financial success. He then spent over six years working on hi...

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• Grade Level: High School

... techniques and devices: one story tells the summer romance between Rebecca and a young boy, who are immersed in a particular socio-historical context, and the other refers to the act of writing a story. In order to understand this work of fiction, it is of paramount importance to be aware of the meaning of metafiction. "Meta"" is a prefix used in English, and other ... author writes (this process is called 'outer narrative'") about a narrator who is telling a story ("inner narrative"). This is precisely known as "self-reflexive fiction"," in which the very techniques of writing fiction ...

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... Macomber" is a fabulous short story written by Ernest Hemingway which was published in 1936. The story is a tale that introduces a new technique and style that Hemingway was not accustom to writing. Author Philip Young remarks that the piece, "presents certain difficulties, ..., because of new approaches the author takes to his material and his protagonist" (Young 41). In this story a reader can ... some comparison between the events of the story itself and the events of Hemingway's life, though it is not meant to be taken literal but merely suggesting the author is writing about a topi...

• Word Count: 1636
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . Literature, by definition, is a body of written (or oral) works that use words to stimulate the imagination and confront the reader with a unique vision of life. A work of literature is a creative universal form of expression that addresses the emotional, spiritual, or intellectual concerns of humanity. Most definitions of literature have been criterial definitions, definitions based on a list of criteria which all ... is exactly is virtually a challenge. Criterial definitions include: To speak sweepingly one can say, summarizing, that in antiquity and in the Renaissance, literature or...

• Word Count: 1508
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• Grade Level: High School