into one another. Eventually‚ the events taking place in the story are intermingled‚ actual importance is lost‚ and the meaning is completed by an untailored disposition. The story is incredibly experimental and perhaps the utmost example of Metafiction. City of Glass can be compared to Don Delillo’s White Noise in that both are considered postmodern fiction‚ and have some basic similarities (though not on the surface level.) While White Noise is more related to the interdependence of characters
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University of Bouzareah Faculty of Letters and Languages Departement of English RESEARCH PAPER PREPARED ON : An Overview of the American Literary Periods Submited by : YAHIAOUI HAMDOUD ALANE Academic Year: 2012 / 2013 Early American Fiction (1492-1789) Literature is told through the oral tradition. Works largely consist of origin myths‚ legends‚ chants‚ and other stories. Spiritual forces show up in water‚ land‚ animals‚ etc. which shows a major theme in
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The term subaltern alludes to any individual or group of inferior rank and station‚ may be for race‚ class‚ sex‚ gender‚ ethnicity or religion. It is the social group who is socially‚ politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial country. It is derived from the social authority or hegemonic work of Antonio Gramsci‚ which distinguished the social groups who are excluded from a general society’s set up structures for political representation
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After Dark By Haruki Murakami “After Dark is a streamlined‚ hushed ensemble piece...Standing above the common gloom‚ Murakami detects phosphorescence everywhere‚ but chiefly in the auras around people‚ which glow brightest at night and when combined.” (The New York Times Book Review) The appraisal given by The New York Times undoubtedly highlights how the characters in the story of Haruki Murakami weave their lives together in just one night. The characters in this novel have established deeper
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INTRODUCTION The economic contraction in the 1930s‚ propelled by the collapse of the economies in industrialised states‚ had a ripple effect on the small vulnerable economies of the Caribbean. During the 1930s‚ the region started to experience economic recessions due to a decline in exports. The repercussions were even greater for those countries locked into monocrop production and dependent on the trade relations that existed between them and the developed countries of Europe and the U.S. The
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period that the piece takes place in. You must take into account the culture and context of a story‚ only then can you truly understand the symbols‚ allusions‚ and metaphors intended to give insight. In Tim Obrien’s “The Things They Carried” he uses metafiction and extensive lists of symbolic
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regime and atheistic religious stance. In magic realism‚ many layers of reality and fiction are integrated within each other. It creates hybridity‚ a complex‚ parallel with multiple planes of reality‚ but still identifiable by the reader. As metafiction‚ it takes fantastical fiction and incorporates it so well into the real world that the reader sees logic and precision. The sense of mystery in magic realism also creates hidden meanings‚ magic‚ questions‚ and forces the reader to let go of pre-existing
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This five stanza poem is steeped in the extended personification of the books as articulate individuals. The title‚ The Secret Life of Books suggests there is something hidden below the superficial purposes (covers) of the books‚ that there is a hidden agenda that we don’t know about‚ as is also suggested in line 11 and 12 (stanza 2). The ambiguity of the poem stems from the themes of the poem which regard the power of books and language and‚ in a metafictional sense‚ the poem draws attention to
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fine and dandy‚ so the intricacies that led to this perfect knot are best left in the text. The question persists as the elephant in the room: is this practice – insisting on the ending‚ rather than the triumphed “middle” – correct? In her work of metafiction entitled “Happy Endings‚” Margaret Atwood parodies narrative elements‚ including the
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Postmodernism in American literature The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison often makes us question the credibility of what is being told‚ and uses many striking‚ sudden shifts between the past and present‚ making it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction. This blurring of the truth is a common element of postmodern fiction. In fact‚ many scholars would say that Beloved is a great example of postmodernism. (Ebrahimi 2005) Morrison uses this technique to bring about the suffering
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