The Victorian Novel: main characteristics First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people‚ its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms‚ the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told‚ the writer and his readers shared the same opinions‚ values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class‚ the setting
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ASPECTS OF A NOVEL by Prof. Raj Kumar Verma Professor‚ Department of English Sri Aurobindo College University of Delhi Today we are here to discuss to know and to analyse how to read a novel. Reading of a novel is an activity which as readers of literature which as readers of story. All of us who have some degree of education are quite familiar with and yet despite that familiarity despite having read quite a few novels for entertainment for knowledge purpose or simply for the sake of passing
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POSSIBLE ESSAY ANSWERS “I have not known a days peace and contentment in my life.” Discuss this statement in light of the various internal conflicts faced by Makhaya in the novel. Support your ideas with details from the novel. In the novel When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head‚ we are a spectator to trials and tribulations of Makhaya‚ the protagonist. While many of these trials are external‚ they also impact on his state of mind and on his emotional detachment. As an individual‚ Makhaya
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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what job you have for a living; what type of class family you come from whether that would be upper or lower class. These timeless novels show how culture affected society too‚ considering whom they talked to‚ how they talked‚ where they stayed compared to a lower class persons culture. An example of a classic book is ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte. This novel shows how culture affects society and how we act and think. It affects society and culture because Catherine knows she cannot get married
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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Flatland Book Review The main character in Edwin Abbott Abbott’s satirical novella‚ “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ” is a two-dimensional creature‚ A Square‚ who visits one-dimensional Lineland and three-dimensional Spaceland. A Square tries to convince the king of Lineland of the existence of dimensions beyond the one he knows. A Square is helpless in imagining a three-dimensional world before he is pulled out of Flatland and experiences Spaceland. Although A Square is trying to explain
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The Rise of the English Novel The dominant genre in world literature‚ the novel is actually a relatively young form of imaginative writing. Only about 250 years old in England—and embattled from the start—its rise to preeminence has been striking. After sparse beginnings in seventeenth-century England‚ novels grew exponentially in production by the eighteenth century and in the nineteenth century became the primary form of popular entertainment. Elizabethan literature provides a starting point
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Graphic Novel Subject Guide 1 Graphic Novels Subject Guide Spring 2010 – Nova Scotia Public Libraries The Misunderstood Medium It is important to understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story‚ with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns‚” “mysteries‚” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies‚ novels or poetry. Essentially
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Eileen Goudge was born in San Mateo‚ California‚ and is the author of many novels (and even a cookbook) including a series of novels called the “Garden of Lies”‚ “Sweet Valley High” series (for teens)‚ and a mystery series called “Cypress Bay” series. Goudge has also written other stand alone works for readers of all kinds. She is the wife of a film critic; who she says is not her first but will be her last marriage. They met when he interviewed her on air on his radio talk show (he called her after
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