1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
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The collision of temperaments: The analysis of relationships between people with different physiologically determined temperaments An individual’s character can be determined by many factors. People learn behaviour from external factors like the environment they grow up in and by observing the people they interact with. Human behaviour is also impacted by the emotions people experience and the manner in which they express them. However‚ a theory from ancient times states that character is strictly
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A Contrarian is a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion. This is exactly what Christopher Hitchens was aiming for in his extraordinaire writing to our society. He writes letters to a contrarian advising to follow the footsteps of his friends and be independent on his or her views and outlook on society. Christopher Hitchens wants people to go “far out of the box” not just the ordinary. Everyone in our world today follows the flow of society. The pop stars and the people in the headlines
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themselves. Emile Zola “J’Accuse” the French Army: The Dreyfus Case 1. The needs of the accused and the needs of the state in nineteenth century France are intermingled‚ which Zola opposes‚ because they shouldn’t be or they would get in the way of justice and truth. 2. The conviction of Dreyfus was popular‚ but they did not fit within the idea of the government by the consent of the governed‚ because Dreyfus obviously went through social injustice and a corrupt system of law. 3. Zola might have
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Realism and Naturalism are both responses to Romanticism. Romanticism was mainly dealing with surreal themes‚ while realism obviously does not. Many writers began to switch to realism and naturalism from romanticism because of world events and to make a change. Realism most often refers to the trend towards depictions of contemporary life and society as they were. In the spirit of general Realism‚ Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and bland activities and experiences‚ instead of
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How might ‘Naturalism’ be defined within theatrical contexts? Movement in theatre developed late 19th century‚ presenting ordinary life as accurately as possible‚ influenced by novelists and playwrights such as Ibsen and Emile Zola. The idea of naturalistic plays was to portray harsh and gritty subject matters‚ which would emphasize the wrongs in contemporary life which would often be frowned upon and alienate 19th-century audiences. However‚ by seeing the wrongs in society there is a believe
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included the works of Rousseau‚ Beaumarchais‚ Montesquieu‚ Hugo‚ Zola Chateaubriand‚ Apollinaire‚ Aragon and other 18th to 20th Century writers. Many of the ideas advanced by these 18th Century writers went on to play a tremendous role in shaping France and Europe via their influence on the revolutionaries of 1789. Hugo and Zola also influenced their generation by exposing societal injustice in their works‚ most notably in “Germinal“and “Les Miserables”. Throughout my high school and university
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according to Emile Zola’s essay‚ Naturalism in the Theatre and Raymond Williams’ essay on Social Environment and Theatrical Environment. One way in which we may acquire a better understanding of naturalism is by comparing the other forms of theater that were precursors to naturalism. In the beginning of his essay Zola calls for an innovator’s mind to “…overthrow the accepted conventions and finally install the real human drama in place of the ridiculous untruths that are on display today” (Zola 1881;
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attempted to suppress this information‚ but a national uproar ensued‚ and the military had no choice but to put Esterhazy on trial. A court-martial was held in January 1898‚ and Esterhazy was acquitted within an hour. In response‚ the French novelist Émile Zola published an open letter entitled “J’Accuse” on the front page of the Aurore‚ which accused the judges of being under the thumb of the military. By the evening‚ 200‚000 copies had been sold. One month later‚
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reason. Animals run on instinct and don’t have the ability to reason like humans‚ but when human’s minds get corrupted‚ they start to reason less so they switch over and start inhabiting more animalistic traits. In the novel La Bête Humaine‚ by Emile Zola‚ not only is the main character‚ Jacques Lantier‚ displayed as a ‘human beast’ but every character is deep down a human beast as well. The characters selfishly resort to killing other people‚ thinking that it will benefit them‚ but in the long run
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