English-language novels

blame… everyone of us, excepting Fanny" (Austen, 174). Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism offers an excellent clarification for the 19th century English novels as an accomplice to Empire, while Tony Tanner reveals, in "Original Penguin Classics Introduction" of the novel itself, the using of symbolism towards the controlling ideas that the novel intended to…

When grounded upon Raymond Williams’ concept of the dominant society and the perpetual flux between filtering residual and emergent cultures, the existence of the novel by such definitions are placed into that of the former. Novels represent a notion of residual culture that has been deeply absorbed within the current superstructure as “they contribute to the effective dominant culture and are a central articulation of it” (Williams 1434), while creating more production for the base through…

CONCLUSION As a result of this study we have come into the following conclusion: Prevailing over English literature for mainly 34 years (1798-1832), Romanticism proved itself as one of the most ingenious, extreme and instable of all ages, a time characterized by insurrection, conservatism and reformation in politics, and by the creation of imaginative literature in its characteristically contemporary structure. It came to be a period when principles and ideals were in union, when radicalism and…

terrible fight for survival” as is determined in the novel “Great Expectations” (Toma, n.d.). Ironically, Matilda brushes off her mother’s concern regarding her lack of cultural presence: “She didn’t want me to go deeper into the other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England” (Jones 109), not fully aware that Dolores’ worry is justified, as her Papa New Guinean cultural identity was slowly being replaced by the English fictional culture that she has come to appreciate:…

THE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATION MEANING IN THE HOUSE OF MANGO STREET BY SANDRA CISNEROS I. INTRODUCTION I.1. Background From generation to generation, literary work develops continuously. As we know literature is a feeling, experience or imagination of human life. Literary work which is written in the form of beautiful words is important to many people because it can gives happiness of the life. According to the Oxford Advance Learner’s Dictionary, literature is the writings that…

he likes to call it, Limerick. There are many instances throughout the novel in which we question what Frank McCourt is really saying. For some it is very blatantly obvious and for others not so much. Frank McCourt is able to manipulate the reader in order to sympathise and believe the terrible lies that just keep forming throughout his novel. Some may argue that Frank McCourt is not an unreliable narrator and deserves his novel to be recognised as non - fiction, however his memoir is…

cultural belief that a woman’s success is to be married is a contradiction of her first definition of success. This results in a struggle between these two beliefs in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, the culture expectations of women deeply embedded in Bronte’s novel create a parallel between the story lines of Cinderella and Jane Eyre. Bronte’s belief that a woman should have an equal standing with a man is exemplified in chapter 12. Reflecting on the subpar nature…

of immortality and remembering those who have passed on. In Anglo-Saxon culture, the primary goal was to obtain immortality by attaining adoration and fame. Proper portrayal of this culture is important in understanding the evolution of the English language. This idolization of their cultural beliefs is best depicted through the archetypal Anglo-Saxon epic hero. The epic, Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel, and Grendel, written by John Gardner, tell principally the same story through two…

Defamiliarization In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” Jabberwocky (or The Jabberwocky) is a nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in the novel Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) which he published in 1871 (Niki Pollock, 2000). It is a prime example of how language can be used as tool for defamiliarization as he does with his use of nonsense words and imagery. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem. That is no accident. It did not get mangled in the printer, it was not jumbled up…

One of the most widely read books in the English language is written by Emily Brontë in early Victorian Age (1930–1901) – the novel Wuthering Heights, firstly published in 1847 as her only novel. While in the preceding Romantic period poetry had been the dominant genre, in Victorian period it was the novel which became very popular. Novelists were inspired more so by playwriters and poets than other novelists. People were so strict, hypocritical, prudish, and stiff, minding their own business…