... With John Fowles." Modern Fiction Studies. 2. Creighton, Joanne V. "The Reader and Modern and Post-Modern Fiction." College Literature. 3. Fowles, John. Foreword. The Timescapes of John Fowles. By H.W. Fawkner. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1984. 4. Richter, David H., ed. The Critical Tradition. Boston: Bedford, 1998. 5. ---. The French Lieutenant's Woman. New York: Signet, 1970. ...

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... and all people must struggle with is present throughout the novel. Willa Cather superbly incorporates both imagery and symbolism to convey these and other significant themes. Often considered one of Willa Cather's finest novels, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a series of sparsely powerful snapshots in time that ... passing over Alexandra's struggle with the land "in leaps and bounds" (Cooper 112); in the 1940s Morton Zabel argued that "the subtlety and scope of [Cather's] themes . . . could readily fail to find the structure and substance that might have given them life or redeemed th...

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... depending on what they considered to be most important (Straus 652; Sokel 204). Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of writing, ambiguous meanings, implied motifs, and similar hidden themes. Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants," is a narrative "in which little actually 'happens'" to the protagonists, which means that almost all of the substance ... abortion as an obvious theme, and an affair as an underlying meaning, "The Metamorphosis" has transformation into a beetle as an obvious theme, and many alternate discourses as hidden themes such as Gr...

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Discuss, comparatively and contrastively, the treatment of one of the following themes (childhood and youth) in relation to at least four short stories studied during the course, showing how particular fictional elements examined during the course contribute to the handling and effectiveness ... transition of a nave little girl into the world of femininity. In this story the author wanted to portray to the reader the importance of life and death by describing the themes of memory and cycle of life based on how they have impacted Miranda throughout the years. The Grave is symbolic in this ins...

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... food, or starve! And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman." (39) Her financial tribulations can't be accounted solely to the fact that she has no money; rather, one must also note that at one point, she had large sums of money ... ...

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... we meet Robert we learn that even though his vision is closed off to the world, he is actually open-minded and understand life better than narrator (Allan SImes, 2008). Themes Prejudice and Ignorance In this short story, Carver uses the main character's skeptical tone and first person point of view in order to express that ignorance and prejudice is caused ... ...

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... places his hand on the narrator's hand as he draws, and 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 ... ...

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... really like that? If it's true, the next generation is going to the dogs. I'm sick of all this shoddy realism. I think there's a place for the romanticist in literature'" (p. 421). The themes of this second novel are to be repeated and expanded upon in many novels Fitzgerald was to write. The discrepancy between the ideal and what is real, between the dream ... ...

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... them to their destination, but he cannot. Patrick stays on the bus ride, which is a reflection of his life, and looks for his stop and unknown destination. One of many themes in this novel is the search for identity and light. One must possess these elements to survive the world. Patrick is constantly searching and looking for his true identity. Throughout ... ...

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