English-language novels

Lolita offers neither masturbatory stimuli nor moral lesson; it is an intellectual aphrodisiac. H.H.’s florid language should shock the reader much more than his legal –affairs-. Nabokov had a sense of this; with eleven novels, remarkable translations to and from English, and several poems and short stories, the fairly ripped Russian polyglot was nothing of a noob. The selection of such topic in a context in which he knew a topic of such…

1. Context of the Story The answers to the following questions can help to establish the context of the story. • Who wrote the fiction? Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who got an award from the Nobel which is “Prize for Literature” in 1928 (Wikipedia). According to nobleprize.org, her father’s Family is came from Østerdalen and they were one of the first settler in Grytdalen in the Sollien valley of the river Atna. Undset’s father, Ingvald Martin Undset, got…

change of culture early in the novel to convey the idea that change, whether for better or for worst, can unveil profound feelings of dedication, attainment, and satisfaction while simultaneously causing feelings of anger, loss, and detachment. Rodriquez opens his autobiography with details describing his home life, where he had spoken solely Spanish with his family, but, as he began his elementary education, insistence from teachers had urged him family to speak English in the household.…

people as well. In Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Crusoe presents himself as a generous and beneficent governor of the island that he is stranded on, when in reality he exercises a dictatorship rule by using might rather than right. Throughout the novel, Crusoe places himself in authority over anyone, both animal and person, that comes onto the island. The first instance of claiming authority over someone is before he is on the island, and this is when he sells Xury, his slave, to the…

metaphors, allusions, similes and rhetoric questions and the use of future tense. The story is narrated in past and future tense to imply that the events have already taken place. For instance, the speaker explains that when she started to analyze the language of the Heptapods that her husband fathered her future child. Analyzing the use of future tense in this text, this means that the speaker is not just speculating but also affirming the avatars of her…

sheer verbal jugglery, which brings diminishing returns with every new metaphysical hair meticulously split as in ‘Meaning is meaningful to meaning’. But with all its limitations, The Serpent and the Rope is a dazzling performance, … Few Indian English novels have expressed the Indian sensibility with as much authenticity and power as The Serpent and the Rope has. (Naik in History: 170) In a nutshell, the philosophical profundity and symbolic richness, with its lyrical beauty and descriptive…

and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He mentions the importance of time and space, characterizations, settings and language in his definition of novel. These major ideas have become classic tools in literary criticism. These tools are the key concepts in the terms of discussion of the Jane Eyre with the Bakhtin’s theory. Initially, I am going to explain Bakhtin’s ‘’epic and novel’’. Then, I am going to talk about summary of Jane Eyre. Finally, after…

Abstract This article, by examining and analysing Indira Bai (one of the early novels in Kannada literature), argues that the native intellectual class of India employed the medium of novel not only to critically interrogate their socio-cultural practices in the backdrop of a new consciousness and experiences ushered in by colonial transactions but also to refashion their idea of ‘tradition’ and modernity. Thus, their response to the colonial ‘modernity’ was not merely an act of ‘civilizing…

presented, it is possible to state that, Dickens reflects all these features in this novel making it one of his most characteristic works. Introducing the range of linguistic registers previously mentioned, Dickens places each character in a different social status depending on each character idiolect1. On this basis, it is also essential to point out the importance of Dickens' use of dialogues as a key element in his novel since, as David Lodge asserted, “it is in dialogue, above all, that the…

characters in the novel. A few female characters such as Justine, Margret, Elizabeth, Safie, and Agatha are all being used for the purpose of male characters. They are nothing more but just a source of actions for the male characters in the novel. The things that usually happen to the female characters in the novel is really just for the purpose of only teaching a male character a lesson and also being an emotional source for the male characters. The most important female character in the novel…