Modernist Novel

While The Landscapes Within did denote a noticeable development on his first novel, Okri was conscious that he needed to develop a new form of writing that was capable of supporting the weight of his Nigerian experiences, now viewed from London. The other side of Okri’s work shows a deep understanding with the phrase ‘magical realism’…

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury. The book was published in 1953. The protagonist, Guy Montag, burns people’s illegally owned books for a living because they promote creativity and free thinking, something that is banned in their society. After Montag meets and has a long talk with seventeen-year-old Clarisse McClellan, he becomes dissatisfied with where he is in life and starts to question if books are actually unprofessional. Eventually, Montag starts to steal…

Hemingway, has having two people have a conversation about their love for eachother. He is then causing us to think about who is saying what and what they’re talking about by using gaps and fissures. In The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway uses a modernist characteristic called Gaps and Fissures. Gaps and Fissures are when the author doesn’t give enough information to recall who is saying what in a conversation. For example when Jake and Brett met they were in love they were having multiple…

a man of status, has been changed as well. She now looks down upon people who resemble what Sally and Mrs. Dalloway were like in their youth. I included Mrs. Dalloway in this rubric because the marriage issue is a core theme at the centre of this novel, as most of Mrs. Dalloway’s past events are romantic issues. Peter Walsh and Sally Seton both competed for Mrs. Dalloway’s attention, until Mrs. Dalloway herself chose a man who was unexpected, Richard Dalloway. Mrs.…

the works of (among others) Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and others. In their endeavour to divert from the stylish weight of the realist novel, these writers presented a mixed bag of artistic strategies that includes, the radical interruption of direct stream of narratives; the dissatisfaction of customary desires concerning solidarity and reasonability of plot and character and the…

To what extent do you agree with Jonathon Greenberg’s view that ‘Joe’s genealogical account of unreliability undercuts the very authority of his own intellectual position’? Refer to the whole novel and the critical anthology in your answer. The term ‘unreliable narrator’ refers to a narrator who is an ‘invariably invented character who is part of the stories they tell’, this therefore indicates how they are provide a first-hand point of view of the situations which take place. The term was first…

themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. She began her literary career with publishing short stories and essays. ‘’Maria Concepcion’’ was her first published story in The Century Magazin in 1922. She published her bestselling novel Ship of Fools in 1964. Her literary achivement peaked with The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1964), which received the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Her short stories make her fame permanent. Katherine Anne Porter was a…

Question 1: Does the narrator speak in the first, second or third person? The narrator in the whole section spoke in first form under the protagonist role of Jing Mei. Though, she several times mentioned in second form while shifting to his step sisters or during the role of father, still the majority of story revolves around the element of ‘I’. So, the author spoke in first form in the whole book in terms of character Jing Mei, in which she wrote in his perspective or point of view. Question 2:…

University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of French and Italian College of Letters and Science Many people say that I am a member of the generation X, born just before the war, in a country that was right in the process of falling apart. Not long after I first saw the light of day, my country has changed several times its name, its anthem, geographical layout and national identity. I was waiting in line in the arms of my mother to get some milk, I have survived an awful authoritarian regime,…

In his classic novel The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner artfully depicts the tragic downfall of the Compsons, a once elite, aristocratic, white Southern family. Seeking to unveil the tumultuous emotions and thoughts within his characters’ minds, Faulkner narrates his story from the perspective of the three Compson brothers (Benjy, Quentin, and Jason), along with a final section using a third-person point of view. With this structure, Faulkner explains the boys’ utter obsession with their…