Epistolary novel

emphasis on the act of writing, as demonstrated through the epistolary aspects of Wieland, reveal Brown’s own metaphorical commentary on the role of an author as one of both vulnerability and authority while he too mimics unfamiliar voices. This question is similarly seen in Sedgwick’s Cacoethes Scribendi through Mrs. Courland and Alice, where Sedgwick criticizes certain styles of writing while also depicting the adverse…

Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest explore the archetypal values of aristocracy, including marriage, women and identity. Austen and Wilde converge in presenting opinions on marriage through humour and contrasting characters. Wilde explores the role of women through reversal and dialogue, while Austen explores the same idea with irony and symbolism. The incorporation of irony and anagnorisis allow both authors to criticise the role of…

creation. Unlike lyrical changes, various factors drive these decisions, including the film’s duration, the novel’s format, or the director’s vision. A notable film adaptation is Nosferatu, a version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897. This novel follows the story of Jonathan and his companions as they attempt to kill the vampire Dracula, while the movie attempts to retell this story. In order to translate Bram Stoker’s Dracula into this silent film for a 1922 German audience,…

2.1. Carrie : An Overview Carrie (1974) is the first full-length published and well-received novel written by King, a profound depiction of the story of outcast high-school girl, Carrie White. Despite the fact that it is his first published novel, he previously has sixth attempts at writing novels. King in his book On Writing , a memoir of his literary craft , records the story of how he wrote Carrie . He recalls ''I did three single-spaced pages of a first draft, then crumpled them up in…

Why is swooning a common action taken by the heroine in romance novels? Surprisingly, fainting is a rather common event in eighteenth century literature. Some scholars say fainting was a contagious craze in order for women to express their sensibility, but others say that there were real physical causes behind these fainting fits. Sometimes it is questioned whether or not feminine characters in romance novels faint for dramatic effect, or whether there is something seriously wrong with their…

Breathing Underwater is a 2002 young adult novel by Alex Flynn that tells the story of Nick and Caitlin. Nick is sixteen years old who comes from a comfortable background and has a devoted girlfriend in Caitlin. Things, however, are not what they seem on the surface. His father is distant and abusive. Caitlin stays with him because of Nick’s controlling actions. The story is in part epistolary in nature with portions presented in the form of letters and as diary entries in which Nick chronicles…

themes and stylistic choices meld together in Frankenstein and Flowers for Algernon, two novels which, though written over a century apart, are notably similar. Characterised by the use of epistolary storytelling techniques, the window is a recurring symbol which is structured following a period of nine months. This parodies of a human’s gesticulation period and mocks man’s attempts to play God by ending both novels in the season of Fall. In Frankenstein, letters from Robert Walton elucidate the…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a fictional novel, which explores human pursuit of knowledge and their fascination with the creation of life. Shelley’s novel is written in an epistolary format, in which she executes her story through a chain of letters that are shared between Robert Walton and his sister discussing Walton’s expedition in the North Pole and his encounter with Victor Frankenstein. As the story unfolds, the readers understand the reasoning behind Frankenstein’s presence in the…

In Juliana Delgado Lopera’s short novel, Quiéreme, she her autobiography is best described as an untraditional in every sense of the word. Lopera’s quick novel clocks in at about 44 pages but is a colorful twisted versions of noting one’s life. In her series of essays, Lopera uses a wide range of writing tools such as her personal voice, Spanglish language, and narrative, she tells her journey of self-discovery through her life and reveals her unique identity to the reader. One of the way…

In his writings, Freud argues that early life experiences play a key role in forming one's personality. In the late 18th century, Mary Shelley lost her mother only a few months after her birth. The influence of this experience appears in her writing. In a psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the effects of the author’s loss of her mother at a young age manifest themselves in the creature’s lack of connection with his creator to show the traumatic alienating effects of her…