Events depicted in movies such as Schindler's List, Amistad, or Titanic can appear just as they might have in real life. ... They must recognize a richness of figurative language and the element of double meanings. ... The meaning of fictional works is personal. With fiction, the meaning is dependent on the perceptions, imagination, and feelings of the reader. ... The content of fiction may take the form of the events of a story, especially in novels and short stories, spoken remarks, especially in drama, or images and symbols, especially in poetry. ...

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Rufus discerns that his yearning for a blissful and ordinary life is not being fulfilled. ... He scrutinized his life for the aspiration and significance that he never found. ... Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... She then learns to use the objective as a way of finding her position in life. ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: ...

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If after reading a random romance novel, you feel you have gained some educational value or you have put another piece of the puzzle into your life, then one can define such text as "literature". ... Children's books, however, do add value to a child's life by means of imagination and education. ... Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind: styles, composition, general force of presentation are the u...

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But the difference that sets it apart is the life in the skin, vein, bone or blood this is inside. ... When Lawrence says that the "novel is the one bright book of life," he deliberately does nol say that the novel is like life (a simile) or that it is full of life (a description) but that it is the "book of life." ... "Books are not life," he writes. ... This way, Lawrence's use of "supplement," in the Derridian sense of not so much adding to as entirely reformulating the initial statement and deferring its meaning, becomes a crucial recurrent feature of his genre theory. ... Coleridg...

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