Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author of Slaughter-house Five‚ wrote several novels compacted into one whole novel to convey a different perspective on a specific view controversial to many. Slaughter-house Five is metafiction that talks about Vonnegut’s experience in the war. Throughout the story‚ we follow Billy Pilgrim as he experienced several events in the war and ultimately the bombing of Dresden. Through several characters‚ dialogue and events we are presented within the novel‚ we get the use of several
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MASTER LECTURE 1/5 What Makes A Short Story A Short Story? Dr. Rica Bolipata-Santos June 30‚ 2014 Structure of Lecture - Definitions - Conflict - Blowfish Definitions "Defining is never a complete process." SHORT STORY - Mac dictionary: a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel - Merriam-Webster: an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often
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Bibliography: Scholes‚ Robert. "Metafiction." Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. New York: Longman‚ 1995 (Shakespeare ’s Tragedies - ‘Fashion It Thus‚ Julius Caesar and the politics of representation ’ John Drakakis‚ MacMillan Press London 1998) (Jefferson. Ann. "Patricia Waugh‚ Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction." Poetics Today. 7:3 (1986): 574-6.) Hamlet‚ New Swan Shakespeare Advanced
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Time of Lies: Abstract iconography in “Maus” Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoirs “Maus I” and “Maus II” present an approachable and sensory biography‚ a detailed and authentic retelling of a Holocaust survivor’s experience. The pictorial style of the memoir encourages the reader to visualize the text and more vividly relate to the experiences portrayed in the literature. The graphic and artistic aspects of the text employ devices that are unique to comics‚ in style and sequence‚ while drawing the
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modernism Approximate dates: 9/12 – 10/21 Essential questions: ➢ What constitutes the hero’s journey in a bildungsroman? ➢ How does a work communicate the anxieties of its age? ➢ What are basic tenets of Freudian theory? ➢ How does “metafiction” change the relationship between author and reader? Concepts‚ terms‚ and themes: Archetypes‚ light/dark dichotomy‚ phallic and yonic symbols‚ the natural world vs. the mechanized world‚ psychosexuality‚ the Oedipus Complex‚ structuralism Texts:
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In his Historia Regum Britannie‚ Geoffrey of Monmouth presents the Britons as the descendants of Brutus who is the great-grandson of Aeneas. This gives the Britons a right to conquer Rome‚ and conquering Rome becomes one of Arthur’s goal in the history Geoffrey of Monmouth presents. The anxiety to be like the Romans yet rule Rome is shown in the fact that the Britons do not want to be a part of Rome unless they are in control. After the Romans appear‚ Hoel proclaims‚ “Since‚ then‚ the Romans want
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Christian world by the end of the 11th century” (Madden‚ Dickson and Baldwin). The Crusades were to end the wars that expanded Islam and the threat of further expansion. During this time‚ feudalism was the main social system in Europe. Feudalism is “historiographic construct designating the social‚ economic‚ and political conditions in western Europe during the early Middle Ages” (Brown). Feudalism was a component in the rise of states. The rise of states now was because trade was revived and because of
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An Atlantic Habsburg? Maximilian and the dream of building an Atlantic Empire (Austria-Hungary‚ Brazil and Mexico) in the 1860s. João Fábio Bertonha From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries‚ the major states of Western Europe built great Atlantic empires‚ based on direct colonization‚ naval power and commerce. These countries were the main protagonists of a movement that included trade and the establishment of naval bases and commercial outposts in the Indian‚ Atlantic and Pacific
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HIST 201: US History to 1815 Essay 2: Historiography of King Philip’s War In this essay‚ you will make an historiographic analysis of King Philip’s War. Proceed along the lines I asked you to in the first essay. Describe and discuss the following: • What topics about the war do the authors choose to focus on? What topics do they ignore? • How much prominence do the authors give the war in their chapters? If the war is not the main topic‚ then what is and how does he fit the war into that
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a very uniquely written book. This book is comprised of countless stories that‚ though are out of order‚ intertwine and capture the reader’s attention through the end of the novel. This book‚ which is more a collection of short stories rather than one story that has a beginning and an end‚ uses a format that will keep the reader coming back for more. Typically‚ a novel contains four basic parts: a beginning‚ middle‚ climax‚ and the end. The beginning
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