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Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Critics on Sometimes a Great Notion
Most critics who have investigated Sometimes a Great Notion have interpreted Hank as an "absurd hero" who struggles, like Sisyphus, against the uncaring universe. In the existentialist world-view the struggle itself, not the goal struggled for, is what ...
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
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Few readers have been able to resist Jane Austen's remarkable second published novel. Pride and Prejudice bring an utterly charming, headstrong heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and a hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is undervalued and misunderstood until the novel's impassioned climax, when reader and heroine alike change ...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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“Chronicle of a Death Foretold " is the name of the novel in which the narrator attempts to reconstruct the events that led to the murder of Santiago Nazar Pedro and Pablo Vicario. He does this with their own memories, as well as the accounts of ...
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Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story
Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story
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Theme and elements are the most important aspects of a short story. These help in defining the style and form of the story. The most important elements of short story are plot, view, tone, character, ...
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“Rocky”- An in Depth Analysis of the American Dream
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Rocky is a film more ambitious and pernicious as it seems at first and this for reasons relating to both the international context and convulsions that agitate the U.S. society at that time. The film is indeed in a particular historical context. ...
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“Death of a Salesman”
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
To understand the literature, and the period it belongs to, it is essential to go through the book in the context of the Modernism literature, and Postmodernism literature to get a better idea. In addition to this, the periods themselves should ...
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T. S. ELLIOT
T. S. Elliot
T. S. Elliot
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Thomas Stearns Eliot, known as TS Eliot (St. Louis, Missouri, September 26 of 1888, London, January 4 of 1965) was a poet, playwright and literary critic Anglo - American. He represented one of the summits of poetry in English of the twentieth century. ...
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Paradise Lost
A number of books and articles have been published on the financial affairs of John Milton. Edward Philips his nephew established precedent for a theory of a lifetime of financial comfort, John Milton had enjoyed. According to Philips, Milton's father a prosperous London scrivener gained a Estate, when he ...
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The Crying of Lot 46
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The Crying of Lot 49 is Pynchon's briefest book and the one with the least convoluted plot, although it contains plenty of twists and turns. Oedipa Maas, a bored California housewife, is informed that she is the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a former ...
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The Tattooed Soldier
The book Tattooed Soldier is the story of the revenge and aggression. The author of the book is Tobar. It is his first novel. The story revolves around the lives of Antonio and Longoria. They tale reveals the history of vantage point of Guatemala when the country ...