literature | | Chuck Palahniuk (on transgressive fiction)1 “The most successful books now serve us as sedatives‚ confirming the values and worldviews their readers already hold. They’re the books we read as sleeping pills at bedtime. When was the last book banned? Oh‚ how I miss the great book bonfires of my Christian youth! That’s when books had some power! When they had to be burned like witches.” In all its ambiguity‚ transgressive fiction is a genre of selective taste. This sub genre within
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typical science fiction story‚ I find myself completely perplexed. But then again‚ what is exactly a ‘typical science fiction story’? Because many critics‚ I believe‚ would never say that nothing in the body of work of this eccentric writer is ‘typical’. Rather he would show all signs of ‘atypicality’‚ of eluding any specific genre classifications. But‚ then again‚ none of literary critics seem to agree or‚ rather‚ agree to disagree on the subject of the definition of term ‘science fiction’. But even
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Introduction This is a speech about science fiction. Today I will be talking about two science fiction texts‚ Avatar and Transformers. I will also be talking about the science fiction genre and what it is. Science Fiction Science fiction is made up of real life science technology‚ mixed with the world of fiction and make believe. By doing this I feel it brings more excitement to the novel or movie‚ making it easier to read‚ or watch‚ and relate to. We all love the world of make believe‚ as this
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I have learned a lot in my lifetime about reading and writing and without it today it would be almost impossible to get very far in life. I have become the writer I am today by mostly paying attention in school and learning at home how to read and write correctly without many mistakes. When you were at home as a child most children would have a bedtime story read to them at night or they would learn how to read the stories themselves. Most children when they are young learn to write as well to when
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Himanshu Shekhar Prof. Kashyap Academic Writing Is Bilingualism an advantage? Ramchandran Guha and Ananthamurthy explore bilingualism in India with their scholarly articles. They argue on bilingualism with two different perspectives‚ giving us the broader picture about the topic of different times and different places. When we talk about bilingualism India is always a first stop‚ this is fact is established by the articles of Guha and Ananthamurthy. Where
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In short fiction‚ as in creative writing generally‚ the point of view or narrative technique has been seen as particularly important in how readers might engage with a story. Why might an author use a particular narrative technique? Select three stories from the Reader that demonstrate a particular narrative technique‚ or that demonstrate several different narrative techniques‚ and discuss and compare the effect of this in these stories. Narrative technique and point of view play an important part
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What is good writing? You know it when you see it. It is not that hard to tell whether a piece of writing is good or bad‚ you just have to read it. And it is pretty important to be able to discern the difference‚ if you ask me. But things get more challenging if you have to explain why it is good. You might be called upon to write a report at school or you may fancy communicating your ideas online via a blog. And‚ of course‚ a well written CV with no spelling or grammatical mistakes is essential
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Deja Craft Period 11 Fiction or Nonfiction? Walt Disney once said‚ “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” Is this true? Can an individual learn better from reading a fictional story more than reading a nonfictional story? Can an individual learn better from reading a nonfictional story more than a fictional story? This is a hot topic for educators heading toward the common core. David Coleman‚ the principal of the
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Ethical Values in Pulp Fiction Pulp fiction is a movie filled with drugs‚ violence‚ gambling‚ and pop iconography‚ describing how real-life society is going towards the “death of god” era; a life without morals. A lot of movie critics would say that Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) possess no ethical values‚ no sense of morality. They also say that the movie does not convey a message. The movie does convey a message; Quentin Tarantino just masks it behind the street-savvy
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING EVALUATION (Lecturer: Ahmad Munir‚ Ph. D) ASSESSING WRITING Presented by : 1. ISPARWATI 2. SAKEUS SURBAKTI 3. USWATUN HASANAH POST GRADUATE PROGRAM ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE STUDY PROGRAM SURABAYA STATE UNIVERSITY 2013 LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT PRINCIPLE AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES CHAPTER 9 ASSESSING WRITING BACKGROUND Not many centuries ago‚ writing was a skill that was the exclusive domain of scribes and scholar I educational or
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