Types of fiction 1. Flash fiction: Flash fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables‚ and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus‚ Anton Chekhov‚ O. Henry‚ Franz Kafka‚ H.P.Lovecraft‚ Ray Bradbury and Lydia Davis. New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet‚ with its demand for short‚ concise works. A ready market for flash-fiction works is ezines; however‚ flash fiction is also published by many print magazines. Markets specializing in flash fiction include SmokeLong Quarterly
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle helps support the first rule of a good detective fiction in six ways. Sherlock Holmes’ observation‚ sarcasm‚ curiosity‚ love of tobacco‚ how confidently arrogant he is‚ and even his voice shows how he is a memorable detective. The first example is of Holmes’ observational skills. It reads‚ “You have presented an inch or two of it to my examination all the time that you have been talking. It would be a poor expert who could not give the date
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Discussion_1_week_2 Chapter Five discusses the importance of point of view in literature and‚ more specifically‚ in the short story. Choose one short story from the course text about which you have not yet written‚ and analyze it in terms of point of view. When writing your post‚ consider the following questions * How would you categorize the point of view [e.g.‚ first-person‚ second-person (i.e.‚ “you”)‚ third-person limited‚ third-person omniscient]? * Is the point of view consistent
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How to ANALYZE FICTION William Kenney Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College Monarch Press Copyright @ 1966 by Simon & Schuster Printed in United States of America How to Analyze Fiction 2 Chapter 1 Plot Choice Fiction and Choice: The act of writing. Whether one is writing a complex three-volume novel or a personal letter to a close friend‚ consists of a series of choices. To see just what this means‚ let’s consider the simpler form‚ the personal letter first. Choice
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The Detective Novel English 857-005‚ Spring 2013 Tue‚ Thu 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm The Course The detective novel is probably the most popular of all literary forms‚ and it has spread to virtually every part of the world. This course analyzes the global travels of this genre‚ considering the different permutations of the form in the different societies where it has prospered. Over the course of the semester‚ students will
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Scientifiction: “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility” Going back to the past or even travelling into the future using time travel to alter one’s present might be a thing in science fiction movies or books today but it is not an impossible thing to do sometime in the future. Ten years or two hundred years who knows but it will be a part of our lives. Scientifiction might be unrealistic in terms of the technology or mythical/supernatural characters used in them but it is not just another
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writers claim to be the “Queen of Crime Fiction”‚ it is really Agatha Christie against whom all others are measured. Even many years after her death‚ readers appreciate Agatha Christie’s novels because of her strong characters‚ her interesting setting and her strong morality. Next to Sherlock Holmes‚ Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple are two of the most recognizable detectives in fiction because of their distinctive attributes. Hercule Poirot‚ the Belgian detective‚ is noted for moustaches and his “egg-shaped
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The significant role of a narrator in literary works often goes unnoticed by many readers. The type and tone of the narrator in a story plays a big part in declaring the theme of the story. Moreover‚ the way the narrator portrays the story and its theme has a strong effect on the way readers perceive the story. The role of a narrator includes deciding how a reader might be involved in regards to the story’s events. In William Faulkner’s short story titled A Rose for Emily and Ghassan Kanafani’s narrative
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Acknowledgement I would like to give my special thanks to Jens Fredslund from the University of Aarhus‚ Denmark‚ whose seminars on the twentieth-century American fiction inspired me to write my thesis on Paul Auster. Especially‚ I want to thank my supervisor Stephen Paul Hardy‚ Ph. D. for his help‚ support‚ valuable hints‚ and the loan of The Invention of Solitude. Table of Contents Introduction 5 1. Literary
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Kendra Lynch English 1302 Ms. Olsen 15 March 2011 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins’s famous detective novel‚ The Moonstone (1868)‚ takes place in the 1840s during the high-Victorian imperialist age‚ a time in which the British experienced a long period of contentment and prosperity. During this time‚ a strong sense of anti-feminism seemed to thrive in British society. Despite this fact‚ Wilkie Collins did not hesitate to make the women in his novel central characters that have a great influence
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