eroticism and homosexuality‚ added tales from the dictation of a Lebanese friend‚ and perhaps invented the two best-known and seemingly most "Arabian" tales of all: "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". Warner quotes Jorge Luis Borges (a guiding spirit in her book) approving this belle infidèleapproach to translation. "I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something
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Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting‚ a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe’s essay "Thomas Le Moineau (Le Moile)" (1846). Interpreting this standard nowadays is problematic‚ since the expected length of "one sitting" may now be briefer than it was in Poe’s era. Other definitions place the maximum word count of the short story at anywhere from
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to him‚ so he would not know the events that occurred in it (Raffa 102). Instead of sailing back home to Ithaca‚ Dante explains how Ulysses convinced his men to sail with him beyond the Pillars of Hercules to “experience the world beyond the sun” (Borges 3; Alighieri 26.109). After he and his men passed through the Strait of Gibraltar‚ they continue sailing to the southwest. After five months of traveling‚ Ulysses and his men laid eyes on the Mountain of Purgatory. Ulysses relayed how “Our cheers
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Stephanie Oropeza Comm 2366 Christopher Nolan Christopher Nolan is an award-winning filmmaker who has been recognized for his work as a director‚ writer‚ and producer. Born in London 1970‚ Nolan began making movies at an early age with his father’s Super-8mm camera. Nolan is known for his films which are rooted in philosophical and sociological concepts and ideas‚ exploring human morality‚ the construction of time‚ and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. He is known for his
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writing poetry becomes more difficult for him. It is perhaps not accidental that similar limitations affected other personalities‚ such as Beethoven‚ who‚ as composer‚ lost his hearing‚ Michelangelo‚ who as an artist lost also his sight‚ or Jorge Luis Borges‚ whose blindness didn’t prevent him from writing. The next theme is light‚ strongly related with the theme of limitation. Light represents what can be perceived with the eyes‚ but it also has the meaning of spiritual light. The poet expresses
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celebrated example of magic realism is Gabriel García Márquez ’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1971)‚ an extraordinary blend of realism‚ myth‚ comedy‚ and history‚ rendered in lush‚ poetic language. Other sources of magic realism are the stories of Jorge Luis Borges‚ Mario Vargas Llosa‚ and Julio Cortazar. The technique is artfully represented in European literature by Milan Kundera ’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). In American literature‚ magic realism‚ evident earlier in the stories of Bernard
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Postmodern literature The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily‚ for example‚ on fragmentation‚ paradox‚ questionable narrators‚ etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Postmodern literature‚ like postmodernism as a whole‚ is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the
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The Consequences of Puritan Depravity and Distrust as Historical Context for Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require constant self-examination to see that they are sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace. Because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge‚ God offered a new covenant to Abraham’s people which held that election to Heaven was merely a possibility. In the Puritan religion‚ believers
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In Jean Luis Borges’ short story "The Gospel According to Mark"‚ we see the main character Baltasar Espinosa in subtle yet powerful comparison to Jesus Christ. Borges uses the formal aspects of setting‚ symbolism‚ & tone to explore a main theme of Christianity and the influence it has on those who don’t fully understand it. He puts his main character in a setting that allows him to become Christ like in the eyes of the primitive Gutres family. There are many examples of the theme throughout
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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