First novel in English

Some critics claim that the novel is actually a true story of an Arab politician. This is because the author was a renowned political figure for most of his life, where it would be within reason to assume he had a close friend of a similar character as that in the novel. Almost all of his literary works were centered on the life of politicians. When I started to translate this novel, I adopted Venuti’s strategy of foreignness and made sure the translation in English is fluent and accurate to the…

globe.. Diaz successfully proves that every single American, immigrant or not, uses a variety of linguistic registers depending on who they are speaking to (family versus friends versus business). And the amalgamation of diction in the novel parallels…

floating around the origins of the novel; is it a literary form? And in the event of accepting that, then it is mandatory to mention that it was begun by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. Thereupon, the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century has flourished into many sorts; such as: the realistic, the sentimental and the satirical novel. The rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century does not infer that there was nothing of the sort of novel before then. To put…

The complexity of the English language reaches an all time high when one attempts to discover the varying meaning and historical uses of a word in the Oxford English Dictionary. In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, she often uses the same word to transcend one definition and create depth in her writing. The novel Sense and Sensibility focuses on the lives of the Dashwood women following the death of their father and husband; the novel follows them through their blossoming romances,…

considered a milestone in Indian-English fiction, its form showing a successful orchestration of Indian and Western methods. The Cat and the Shakespeare, a metaphysical comedy, is an exemplar of theoretical fiction. The Chessmaster and His Moves are characterized by a range of momentous symbols. Here ‘The Chessmaster’ himself and his ‘moves’ are what he makes man do. Raja Rao’s place in the empire of Indian English fiction is safe as the most Indian of novelists in English, as stylist,…

The film adaption of the novel is unique. Right away in the film, the first difference is about the characters, “‘We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things’” (33). In the movie, all of the boys are American cadets while in the novel they are English schoolboys. Another spot to notice is that Ralph’s arm also appears to be wounded but in the novel all the boys are well. On the screen, it reveals the settings as a beautiful island but the text…

and garnered more critical attention than any other African writer. His reputation was soon established after his novel Things Fall Apart. He made a considerable influence over young African writers. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English. It seeks to discover the cultural zeitgeist of its society. Critics tend to agree that no African novelist writing in English has surpassed Achebe’s achievement in Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart is a milestone in African literature.…

portrayed by Forster through the friendship between Aziz and Mr. Fielding, the English schoolmaster. Subsequently, Forster had the limited experience of both sides, keeping up a multifaceted relationship and getting from this completely a new information and feelings. In view of this story the reader is rapidly capable to sympathize with the ruled race, extremely and impolitely treated by the English powers. In this novel, the reader…

the character of Kaukab and Shamas well defines the binaries work in the novel. The latter group is madly clung to the idealized image of Pakistan in terms of religious, cultural norms, ideals about how to raise children. Aslam has presented his characters through extreme contrast between Shamas and Kaukab or Kaukab and her children (p. 145). In the case of murder trial, the clash occurs between the two systems: the English and the Islamic view of what is right and wrong. But almost all…

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…