English-language novels

find freedom in a country that sets rules against their own will driven by old cultural norms. Hend and the Soldiers is her first work that was recently translated by Sanna Dhahir, a Professor of English at Effat University in Saudi Arabia. Dhahir has translated several literary works from Arabic into English. She is also a woman activist who saw Albesher’s work groundbreaking that brings a rare woman’s voice in a patriarchal society and to the Anglophone readers. The story vividly explores…

expected something amazing such as “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville but the teacher assigned “Lord of the flies” by William Golding. I was so excited I immediately dove into the novel, I read it cover to cover, twice. I tried to love the book as passionately as my teacher had, so it would live up to my expectations of a “college level novel” but instead it was by far the worst book I’d ever read and only further fueled my hatred for all literature everywhere. Golding’s book was so hard to follow…

10 MASTERS DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-03) THE BRITISH NOVEL ASSIGNMENT (BASED ON BLOCKS 1-9) Maximum Marks: 100 Programme : MEG-03 Section I is compulsory. Attempt four questions from section 11. You must attempt -five q uestions in all. All questions carry equal marks. Section I 1. In what ways can we look at fiction as history? Give suitable examples. 20 Section I1 How does Fielding's social consciousness affect his point of view in 'Tom Jones'? 20 Discuss the use of humour in 'Pride…

‘Such a Long Journey’ is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won numerous other awards too. However, it came into the light when the book was withdrawn from the syllabus of the University of Mumbai's English Literature in 2010 after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray. In this light, a renowned writer Salman Rushdie points out that: The famous novel of Rohinton Mistry's 'Such a Long Journey' was withdrawn…

first day in India where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames. George Orwell was known as an English novelist, essayist, and critic in Great Britain. His work is marked by ordinary language, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He was a man of strong opinions who addressed some of the major political movements of…

as it negotiates the status of the postcolonial individual. Thus, language that plays a crucial role in transmitting and expressing one’s thoughts and values has always been at the core of the postcolonial writings. Postcolonial feminist writers deal with the issue of language as a fundamental aspect of cultural identity in their literary accounts with its range of disciplines. Moreover, the complex relationship between language and identity is widely reflected on by many Maghrebian authors.…

ENGL 1302 Corinne Tatum Scott J Phifer 10/30/2016 Fahrenheit 451-Use of style, tone, and language Use of styles The style is a way in which the writer writes or a technique an author uses in his techniques. The style may vary from one writer to another writer upon one's syntax as illustrated by Fahrenheit 451.The novel clearly shows the concerns of the time. There are various kinds of styles the author have used to pass his information using the techniques. These methods include argument,…

Abstract: Most of the novels written after the publication of Midnight’s Children deals with the aspect which focuses on national history cutting across personal narratives. Most of the writers are deracinated from their roots: familial, cultural, national, religious and linguistics and therefore use polyphonic form to explore their past. It comes as no surprise to find that Amitav Ghosh is a writer concerned with India’s place in larger international cultural networks, whose fiction seems…

utter nonsense. It features in Carroll’s novel, Through the Looking Glass, and is approximately seventy-five percent completely made up words. Even Alice, the main character of the book, is bewildered by it saying, “"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it out at all.)” (Carroll 64). So why would Carroll, even in a children’s novel, write a poem with a…

power relations. The functionality of the colonizer’s language is considered as a form of affiliation and adherence to the western standards which implies hierarchy and gives acquiescence to the Western supremacy. The works of postcolonial/feminist writers should be positioned in the third space, to use Bhabha’s term, in where there is ambivalence and uncertainty, an impasse that is hardly escapable; a state of nowhere. Using French as their language to express their thoughts, Maghrebian…