Personal interpretation The text of a novel does not necessary tell about such matters as the gestures, expressions, and tones of voice to use in converting words on a page into a convincing performance on the screen. ...

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the spirit of the movements were those inimitable, unteachable Russian gestures that "uncle" had expected of her this slender, graceful Countess, who was able to understand all that was in Anisya, and in every Russian man and woman." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Name of the Rose is full of logical mappings, semiotic systems like the encoded map of the library and the purported plan of the murder sequence, but also of correspondingly arbitrary sign systems like numerology, iconography, mathematics and measurement, cryptography, and language itself, or better yet multiple languages, including the spoken word, the language of gems, of flowers, of the landscape, and of gesture. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate