... has become a vehemently significant issue in connection with teaching English in a country where English is not the mother tongue. Voices are as many as the students in the class in terms of differences in their likes and dislikes, and opinions about a number of things being culturally bound and oriented. Negotiating these differences between students and their teachers and also among themselves ... unique interests in the classroom. By the same token, their activities are assessed both formally and informally through discussions, presentations, quizzes, sit-down tests and the like. Pros...

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... A Handbook to Literature define epiphany as "Literally a manifestation or showing-forth, usually of some divine being." They further explain that the word "epiphany" was first used as a term in literary criticism by James Joyce, "who used it to designate an event in which the essential nature of something . . . was suddenly perceived. It was thus an intuitive grasp of reality achieved ... in his life. Further, virtually all reviewers laud the shift. Anatole Broyard, who suggests that a reader must be "something of a semiologist" to understand Carver, also links him with "strong American ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... techniques he employed in writing most of his stories. The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation and ... inner feelings and thoughts which oozed out on the paper and if possible to argue about his conscious or unconscious intentions for writing this particular tale. 2. Gothic Literature The Gothic, a l...

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... , whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 ... appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 ... appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and be O.K. Comprehending and trying to understand can similarly be seen in The Grave', where Miranda, like the narrator in I Want To Know Why', is still trying to come to terms with a shocking image and a powerful incident that altered her innocent way of thinking about life forever because of a sudden and unexpected awareness of another dimension of life. The use of ... is up to the reader to decide whether the accounts are reliable and trustworthy . At this point, it is important to note, that the narrator is trying to come to terms with his youthful desires and frustrations as well ...

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... is written in a rather grave and matter-of-factly tone, Irving's story abounds with irony and satire and there is an all-penetrating sense of Irving making fun of traditional literary forms as well as certain conceptions common in the Puritan past of the country. I shall look at these features of Irving's story in detail later on. Both stories are told ... a matter of fact, this feature of the narrative is one of its most important aspects as I have already stated earlier on. In his work, Irving was trying to come to terms with the American past as well as to show the differences betwee...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate