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    XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX ENGL 252-01 28 November 2012 Thoughts on Feminism and Dystopia in The Handmaid’s Tale The Annotated Bibliography Dopp‚ Jamie. "Subject-Position as Victim-Position in The Handmaid’s Tale." Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne [Online]‚ 19.1 (1994): n. page. Web. 27 Nov. 2012 Dopp believes that Dopp believes that the goal of The Handmaid’s Tale is to work against the oppression of women‚ While he feels that is actually does the

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    Barthelme evokes a metafiction within his novella in which the characters have a basic knowledge that they have a role to play in this greater story of Snow White. Pizer points out that Snow White acknowledges how she is viewed by society and the dwarves as nothing more but an

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    Entertainment. Hoboken: R. Dyer‚ Routledge‚ pp. 17-34 * Feuer‚ J * Feuer‚ J. (1995) “The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment”‚ in Film Genre Read II. Texas: University of Texas‚ pp. 441-455. * Ingersoll‚ E. (2001) “Engendering metafiction: Textuality and closure in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace”‚ American Review of Canadian Studies‚ vol. 31‚ no. 3‚ pp.385-401 * Kolker‚ R * Sanders‚ J. (2005) Adaptation and Appropriation. Hoboken: Routledge. * Schatz‚ T. (1981) “film Genres and

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    California State University‚ Dominguez Hills Essay 3 Examining characteristics of postmodern fiction depicted within Italo Calvino’s novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Casey Robertson (202306117) crobertson25@toromail.csudh.edu HUX 581: Key Periods and Movements‚ Philosophy: Philosophy and Postmodernism 07 27 2012 When discussing the genre of postmodern literature‚ Italian author Italo Calvino’s 1979 novel titled If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is definitely a work worthy of

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    she travels back to the antebellum South every time her ancestor needs help. Fiction writing that deals often playfully and periodically‚ with the nature of fiction‚ the techniques and conventions used in it‚ and the role of the author therefore metafiction applies because throughout the story it deals with the writing of fiction or conventions of fiction. Now in our modern daytime it is used more common but Butler approached her task exquisitely. There are many examples where she deals with fiction

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    Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Honors Program Projects Honors Program 5-1-2011 East / West: Salman Rushdie and Hybridity Jessica Brown Olivet Nazarene University‚ jessicabrwn45@gmail.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/honr_proj Part of the Literature in English‚ North America‚ ethnic and minority Commons‚ Modern Literature Commons‚ and the Other Race‚ Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation Brown

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    Cecilia and her love‚ Robbie‚ by inexcusably accusing Robbie of a crime he didn’t commit. Wright illustrates the damaging and long-reaching impact of the young girls misjudged decision through three significant periods in the film. The misleading metafiction of the narrative facilitates the cruel manipulation of the viewers’ emotions as Wright interprets Ian McEwan’s masterful novel. The tormented soul of Cecilia Tallis has been beautifully captured by Kiera Knightley as she continues to impress with

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    Written as a novel in 1939 by the Irish author Brian O’Nolan‚ under the Pseudonym name of Flann O’Brien‚ At Swim Two Birds is widely considered to be one of the most sophisticated examples of metafictional writing ever. Writing in the style of metafiction often involves playfully and paradoxically interacting with the nature of fiction‚ the techniques and conventions used in it‚ as well as the role of the author. It has been said that metafictional writing does not let the reader forget he or she

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    coped with the deaths he experienced in war‚ “But ths too is true: stories can save us.... They’re all dead. But in a story‚ which is kind of dreaming‚ the dead sometimes smile and sit uo and return to the world.” (p.799) The author story tells‚ metafiction‚ to keep those that have lost their lives from truly dying. Through the form of story he keeps them living and although these are stories of fiction‚ to the author it is preserving their

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    An analysis of the novel Nightwood‚ by Djuna Barnes‚ and Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr and Miss Skeene‚ provides us with a method of understanding the representation of sexuality in these examples of ‘lesbian literature’. Rather than engage with these two texts through simple literary appreciation‚ it is important to interrogate the ways that sexuality can be used as a means for expression‚ both cultural and personal. An even deeper analysis will reveal the ways in which terms such as ‘lesbian literature’

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