1 Anabel Gonzalez Mr. Helle English p.2 7 September 2009 Thematic Effects on Novel without a Name Novel without a name by Duong Thu Huong provided a real insight on war from the Vietnamese point of view. Readers are able to contemplate with the themes that reoccur‚ what the war truly is like‚ and the effects it causes on the people‚ society‚ and the individual. Three main reoccurring themes of this novel were disillusionment of the war‚ betrayal‚ and the loss of innocence that the war causes
Premium Human The Little Girl The Loss
The Rise of the English Novel English literature has a long and colorful history. From the masterfully written old English tales of Chaucer to the countless Shakespearian dramas to the poetic verses of Tennyson‚ England has produced some of the richest treasures of the literary world. Not until the eighteenth century‚ however‚ did a type of literature develop that completely broke the traditions of the past and opened the door to a whole new generation of writers. This new genre was appropriately
Premium Jane Austen Fiction Literature
understanding of how such institutions can reform an individual. The novel "Raw" written by Scott Monk‚ is simple in style but introduces interesting and an acceptable insight to the concept of "the institution and the individual experience". Brett Dalton resembles a highly wrought‚ reactionary character who challenged or feels confronted by structures of authority or control. Using Brett as the protagonist‚ Monk opens the novel with a prologue that describes Brett as delinquent and confused teenager
Free Fiction Individualism Sociology
evolved into something far beyond strips in the Sunday paper. Graphic novels‚ as these materials are most often referred to today‚ have become their own genre (even though they are a format‚ not a genre) in bookstores and libraries alike. Popularity for them has skyrocketed in the past ten years or so‚ and graphic novels now compete as literary heavyweights for young readers and adults. There are different branches of graphic novels‚ including manga‚ which have an age appropriate stamp on their back
Premium Writing Literature Graphic novel
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
Premium A Tale of Two Cities
BANKIM: THE ORIGINARY* FIGURE OF INDIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH Y.V.R. Prasanna Kumar Research Scholar (M.Phil.)‚ (Part-time)‚ Department of English‚ S.V. University‚ Tirupathi. A. P.INDIA 517502 INTRODUCTION A great deal of Indian writing in English is in the form of novel. In the course of an eventful history‚ Indian novel in English demonstrated the capacity and resilience for innovations and attained the status of Universal Form. The post-independence India has witnessed a Sea change of Indian
Premium Literature Fiction India
The First World War spawned a great variety of war novels and memoirs. German novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front and British memoirs by Robert Graves‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ and Edmund Blunden helped to create a mythology of "disillusionment." I will survey several German and British memoirs in this essay‚ making comparisons between them with a view to drawing some conclusions as to how German and British soldiers sustained morale. Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is a unique and interesting
Premium World War I Nationalism World War II
How‚ and to what extent‚ do the texts on this unit challenge the idea of “the novel‟? The conventions of “the traditional novel” are almost completely disregarded in twentieth century avant-garde fiction. According to Hutcheon‚ a healthy piece of postmodern fiction ‘paradoxically uses and abuses the conventions of both realism and modernism‚ and does so in order to challenge their transparency’ (1988‚ p. 53). Despite this‚ what effectively happens with avant-garde literature is that each text
Premium Charles Dickens Samuel Beckett Literature
with fact is "More Matter‚" a collection of Updike ’s essays and criticism. Otherwise‚ don ’t expect any works of history or politics. Biographies? What ’s the point? She knows how the story will end. "It would be a better book if they just wrote a novel about that person‚" Tyler reasons during a recent sunny morning‚ a mug of coffee in her hands‚ her gray-dark hair pulled back in a bun. For nearly 50 years Tyler has been making it up – and telling the truth – about love‚ family‚ work and death‚ while
Premium T. S. Eliot The Waste Land Ezra Pound
The Victorian Novel: main features First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people‚ its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms‚ the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told‚ the writer and his readers shared the same opinions‚ values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class‚ the setting was
Premium Social class Working class Middle class