... what is fabricated. If anything, it will just make you a more informed person. Even as late as high school, I use to trust what was in my history text. I thought I was memorizing for that 4.0 grade and 5 on my AP test, but little did I know that by doing so, I believed everything that my ... , or history book has ever done for me. Ragtime and The Book of Daniel were not the first publications that made me realize that history doesn't give complete accounts. I read a book called, The Jungle. Like Ragtime, it took a time an aspect of modern history, in this case, the Industrial Revolution ...

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... from her most basic ideas about what literature and writing should be and do. Her ideas about what makes for good writing are contained in this text, if indirectly. Understanding these ideas allows the reader to see how she is able to write so convincingly, particularly since there seems to be ... of the accuracy of an account or of a reasonable course of events. She sees the truth here as being something that is revealed through the text. Therefore, it is something that may have been previously unknown or disputed. The traditional method of convincing one of the truth of something is ....

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... Subsequently, the writerly form of the novel, drawing the responder in through use of rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. Appearances are one of the most influential satirical devices ... in both book and film; however this is approached very differently in each medium. In the written text, the use of description is important, the appearances of the characters overexaggerated to be unlike the typical fairytale. Prince Humperdinck "was shaped like a ... barrel [an...

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... frequently emphasize the differences in value between the culture of the elite, and the perceived sordidness and banality of everyday life. While postmodernist text rejoices in erasing the divide between popular forms and traditional culture. Back to the book, as what we have found out that in ... a given work's consistent writing style of a certain author the normal practice in writing, this extraordinarily equable juxtaposition of different writing styles in one text is abnormal. Yet it is just through this deliberate juxtaposition that the author has snubbed the traditional division b...

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... to them, as they are places they know. " through Nedlands, Shenton Park, and Subiaco." The Australian bush is portrayed strongly throughout the text, establishing to the audience the fact the family also shares the Australian culture and surroundings thus producing a very real environment. Readers are able to ... river, the beautiful, the beautiful the river, the Lambs and the Pickleses are lighting up the morning like a dream- Historical events mentioned in the text such as Lester Lamb's involvement in World War Two, expressed the ideal that he was a true Australian fighting for his coun...

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Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is a novel where ... meanings are understood at a literal level. In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. The house on Cloudstreet itself, the river, the symbolic representations of the Lambs and...

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... also be seen that whilst a Marxist reader would imply the economic benefits alone would enable reproducibility, that also popular consumption and reception of the text, brings it classical status. Furthermore, it should be understood that whilst an unrepresentative sample of texts in the canon would not be acceptable today ... to the reader or by patriotism of the institution of education. The import of which should not be overlooked in the process of the text becoming canonic, "there is an organisation of opinion, which may either facilitate or inhibit the individuals manner in doing int...

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... the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps provided by the intricacies of the text. The value, and of course, the beauty of the The Turn of the Screw lies in its challenging and well-constructed "interpretive dilemma" which ... details blends very well to his passion for studying the inner mechanics of human psychology. The age in which Henry James wrote is significant. His text portrayed the form of the modernist writing, as being grounded on the change of "the canon". Being written at the turn of the 19th century ... ...

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... book bound tales came along with a series of illustrations and images that were "very much in conformity with the text" (429). Zipes details that the illustrations often enriched and deepened the tale because they were subservient and strictly based on the text itself. He then points out that in the next great revolution, the genre of film, animators created images but also ... imposed them on the text and formed their own text in violation of print (430). The legitimacy of the text no longer mattered, as Zipes claims that to Disney, all importance was focused on the images which "inten...

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... specifically that psychological verisimilitude is a criterion for the novel of the eighteenth century. Nor does he say that for the novel to be realistic the text must show a deep, disclosed psychological truth of the character(s). Watt has set up the premise that in the eighteenth century the ... text of the novel must follow the guidelines of realism. Watt has prescribed the text should be authentic, with detailed characters and particulars of the time and place of the characters actions1. Fielding's novel Tom Jones ... out by Watt. In The Rise of the Novel, the chapters preceding the ...

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... literature effectively assists the exploration of universal themes of the human experience. The need to attain a sense of belonging is shown distinctly within Lowry's text through capturing relationships – social, familial, interpersonal and personal – which allows the reader to grasp a deeper understanding of the power of ... place and not just to a group or society. Through Asher, who feels the sense of belonging towards Byron Bay, the effect that text types have on a story is explored, and through the use of the letter in the book the reader is shown personal emotions and feelin...

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... in some versions of post-modern theory actually celebrated" Kumar (1995: 103)) What I understand from this is that selecting a piece of postmodern text and examining it is insignificant. By the time you have written your analysis on the text, another one comes along, breaking the boundaries of postmodernism in some other way. Also, by defining postmodernism we are being quite unpostmodern as ... more inclined into believing that "Trainpotting" and "The Acid House" were more clear indications of postmodernism. I did like the way in which the text is written in shapes across the page a bi...

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... distinguishes it from all other works, and not because of whatever in it may resemble them."" Todorov said that to deal with any text in literature we must be conscious that it reveals "properties that it shares with all literary texts, or with texts belonging to sub- ... groups of literature- and second, we must conceive that a text is "not only a product of pre-existing combinatorial system; it is also a transformation of that system."" He summarizes his study on genre as follows ... self-defining activity of the community is conducted in the light of the works, as its members have com...

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... our questions. The short story writer has to attract the reader and keep their attention throughout. In order for any story to work, tension has to be built in the text, to keep it interesting. In a novel, the writer has to structure and create tension building it up and letting it drop and picking it up again. Too much fast-paced ... a carefully considered and appropriate backdrop. A short story works through its location, characters, and setting in time and language. These are the ingredients that tie it together and make the mixture complete. In this story, the location is very impor...

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... general, Minnelli tends to romanticize the story, even sentimentalize it, making Emma much more of a sympathetic heroine than seems to be the case in Flaubert's text. Much of the ironic tone of the novel is lost. Minnelli also omits from his film all scenes which are not directly connected with Emma. The harsh ... which underlie Flaubert's novel are ignored for the most part. Chabrol, on the other hand, attempts to be scrupulously faithful to the text and spirit of the novel. The director claims that virtually every word of dialogue in the film was taken directly from Flaubert ... 's tex...

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... unlike, showing that within a short space of time or lines, Hamlet can quickly change his mood and feelings. The entire famous soliloquy, "to be or not to be :" is already a complete contrast to the second, for it is far more logic and calmer and Hamlet throughout can be described as a reflective philosopher, expressing his thoughts on fundamental questions on life and ... two eras and the views they up hold and his questioning of identity. In real life, no one is straightforward and can be fully understandable if they were described in a text, so perhaps this is why the reader or audie...

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The short story "Desiree's Baby-, by Kate Chopin, incorporates very interesting twists and turns capturing the reader's attention, while provoking thoughts on issues deeper than the text itself. Kate Chopin depicts the ignorance and the stupidity of racism and chauvinism in a realistic way. These schools of thought openly blanketed past societies, and still live on in the ... a seemingly all-knowing observer of the situation. Although the narrator does not take sides towards issues that arise during the course of the text, her general view does shape the overall characterization of the white...

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... 's sarcastic; In the first chapter, for example, when the narrator is denied the opportunity to enter the library she says: "That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is of complete indifference to a famous library.... Never will I ask for that hospitality again." (Woolf, 8) Woolf's technique is to create a fictional narrator who will relate how she came to have certain views; and ... be considered the material cause of fiction, the stuff from which some fiction is made; as in the preceding interpretation, women could be seen as the efficient cause. Throughout the text, one should...

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... them. "Women and Fiction" could mean: "Women and what they are like", "Women and the Fiction they create.", and "Women and the fiction that is written about them." Throughout the text, it should be noted that Woolf will often consider these themes, as she says, "inextricably mixed together." She will do so especially through the lens of fictional personal experience, most ... taxi might suggest that "there are two sexes in the mind corresponding to the two sexes in the body," and they [may need to] be united in order to get complete satisfaction and happiness." "The normal and comfortab...

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... part in their experience, seeking out information, making connections, following up on ideas, making choices and decisions. The hypertext is seen as open, readerly form, not so much one text as a network of many potential texts, out of which readers construct their own, individual texts. Hypermedia place the reader in a more active role than traditional texts, which essentially means ... within hypertext and hypermedia and can be seen in the different aspects of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, t...

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... meaning to the work in this novel. Such as? 4/5 Oliver Hardy, Robinson Crusoe, and Dracula are among some of the most important allusions in I Am Legend. On page 66, the text alludes to Oliver Hardy. This reference is important because Oliver Hardy perfectly portrays Robert Neville's' thoughts on Ben Cortman. Readers familiar to Oliver Hardy will better understand the personality of ... Cortman. Another significant allusion occurs on page 83. Here, the text refers to the character of Robinson Crusoe. The allusion shows similarities to the stories because Robert Neville is going through ...

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... because he doesn't use any formal words. For example, he used the word "bums " instead of "homeless. " These styles do not shift during the story. 2. I sometimes have to reread the text because the author uses many metaphors and similes. 3. The author's tone is slang because he is always saying jokes. In addition, he does not use formal words; instead he uses ... a farm the family still talks in a formal manner. This is probably due to the fact that they are in Latvia and maybe Latvians are more civilized. 2. I have to read the text somewhat carefully because the language is not modern....

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... adventurous aspect to the novel, suggested by the title, and the nouns "mist" and "haze", which are pathetic notion for obscurity and indistinctness, has not been carried through into the text. Throughout the opening pages, Conrad pays close attention to detail. His subtle handling of the complex imagery those surfaces from the first few lines of the novel, fabricate the scene ... we are about to hear of one of Marlow's "inconclusive experiences". It is through Marlow's indecisiveness that the novel achieves its air of ambiguity, and in a sense, imbedded into the text is the manner in w...

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... a non-fictional play, The Laramie Project. The Glass Managerie and Death of a Salesman are both fictional works, but are reflections on the difficulties of life. An author of a fictional play text uses plot, setting and characters to create imagery and influence the reader's response on how the author wishes the reader to perceive a situation. An author can present his or her ... the stage. Seeing the play a second time would allow the audience to view the play from a different aspect. That kind of discrepancy cannot truly be captured on film, nor in text. Reading the play and seeing th...

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... within the tradition itself. The reader can choose whether to read the novel as satire or fantasy. Goldman's fabricated voice within the text offers the reader what the fantasy genre won't often allow: the choice to interpret the text and its deeper meanings. In offering readers the opportunity to interpret and imagine, the author keeps the reader straddling between what is fantastical ... ...

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