Fiction writing

and Emerson give us that opportunity to see life in a different way by the lessons they write about. These writings have their differences but also connect with each other in some way. Eagleton, Nietzsche and Emerson were important writers of their time periods. Eagleton specialties are literary and cultural theory and the English-language literature. Which reflects on his different writing about “The Meaning of Life” and my favorite “What is Literature?”. Whereas Nietzsche was a German…

While researching literary agencies, I found your profile on the Stonesong website and noticed you are a Vassar Alumn (Go Brewers! I graduated in ’87). After relinquishing my career as a clinical researcher to work in a library (and serve as an Uber driver for my children), I have encountered many reluctant readers, especially boys, looking for something more challenging than the Magic Tree House series. They often stipulate, “It can’t be too big of a book and it can’t be boring.” I believe…

With a mass of accounts from victims and witnesses of the Holocaust in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus is a timeless novel. This anomaly of a story, written in 1818, sparked the beginning of science-fiction writing. When Mary Shelley was writing this novel on a dark, stormy night in Switzerland, she had no idea that the story she had created would fascinate audiences for two-hundred years. In chapters nine and ten, nature plays a significant role in the emotions of Victor Frankenstein. Nature is a driving force throughout the novel since it…

who looks just like her because he believes that a human body is “nothing / but a machine made of earth,” so he should be able to make a machine and have that be a human body (Nuernberger 14-15). Within this narrative, the automaton is analogous to writing as a technology. When Descartes goes on a voyage with his automaton, it terrifies the ship’s crew, and their reaction is to throw it overboard. This fear of and refusal to accept new technology calls to mind Phaedrus, and the resistance to…

which reflects on the protagonists’ interpersonal relationships, their attitudes towards each other. The analysis focuses on the postmodern concept of irony in Atonement. In her book entitled Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (1984)…

In the biography, Hemingway uses writing as a way to express his thoughts and interests, and writes his ideas in his stories. In his book The Old Man and the Sea, he writes of an old man who has gone over eighty five days without catching a fish, but instead of giving up, he keeps his honor…

to portray his/her thoughts about anything they want. Flannery O’Connor has used her talented writing skills and put them to good use. She is known for writing horrific and shocking violent stories. She has written many short stories that have a unique aspect to every single one of them, but they all have something in common. The use of violence and shock tactics are used often in O’Connor’s writings as a means to be an attention grabber. One very particular theme is her novel A Good Man is…

Assignment 2 (a) Summarise the argument made in each of your two chosen essays (200 words each = 400 words total) In Daedalus and Joyce Writing the Books on Themselves, John Paul Riquelme broaches the different narrative styles deployed by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man. This analysis opens up on the “oscillating perspective” of the narrative, which refers to the constant shift between the first person narrative and the third person narrative in the story. This…

are dominant themes in Alvarez’s works. Her personal experiences form the core of her creative endeavors in poetry as well as her fiction writing. Her poems “Sometimes the Words Are Too Close,” “Queens,” and “First Muse,” depict portrayals of family relationships and the Hispanic immigrant experience. However, Alvarez frequently blurs the lines between reality and fiction. In addition to, she also uses circular rather than chronological narrative structures. Attention to the minutiae of everyday…