... normally a modernist or postmodernist text. From all that has been discussed previously, it is self-evident that The Woman Warrior is a "writerly" text. It is not easy for readers to follow and it challenges our conventional reading habit. While the reader reads it, he has to produce the meanings, instead of consuming meanings. The ultimate theme of the ... usually incompatible to the contemporary reading public or sometimes even critical circles but his/her literary value will finally be discovered by critics and literary scholars of the later generations. Notes: 1) Maxine Hong Kingsto...

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... time, and left the people laughing or staring in wonderment" (431). It is difficult to strongly agree with Zipes opinion, as he notes on page 428 that one of the crucial functions that the literary fairy tale served was to encourage dreaming, miracles, and the use of ... limit the level of violence their children are subjected to, and I believe that Disney understood this and took appropriate precautions to make this film more suitable for his young viewers eyes. In addition to the previous two arguments, Zipes states in the beginning of his essay that Disney was a radical filmmaker who ...

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... stereotypes. Blue is somewhat cowardly, first hiding behind Molly, and failing miserably once he confronts the Bad Man from Bodie. Though he has a talent for bringing people together (usually by conning them in some way), he is more a man of words than of actions. He is hardly the stoic, ... gain control in an effort to bring order to what they see as chaos. Included in their new regime is a restriction of many freedoms, especially for women. These leaders see this as a return to a time when gender roles were more identifiable and less confusing. In modernist writing, rights and ... seem...

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... so that we should not miss one single detail (which, actually, is impossible). His interest in 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 ... the idea of the manuscript brings forward the embedded - story typology: "the story's written. It's in a locked drawer - it has not been out for years". It renders the idea of perspectivism, the fact of story - telling, which undermine the literary well-known conventions. This is the beauty if the embedded ... of ...

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... share their similar experiences. These experiences will be added on to the original story, thus transforming the original story into another distinct and unique story. Digital storytelling creates the possibility for everyone to be a participant in the story-building process (Tosi, 1999). Through such activities online communities, where readers can share and remember the happenings of their lives become established. ... narrative structure and form may vary that the scripting of the texts themselves must still draw on some traditional means of storytelling from the media of cinema, tel...

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