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Marilynne's very first novel Housekeeping, finalist for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and winner of Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award under first best novel category and also the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, became a hallmark of her unique writing style (often compared to the Old Testament and the stateliness of Melville) that is persuasive, insightful and unfashionably sincere on the one hand and her profound psychological themes on the other....
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Name: Date: Depictions of Women in "The Color of Purple" As Gayle Austin argues in her Introduction to Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism, a feminist approach to anything means paying attention to women (Austin 297).... hellip; Based on this statement, one could argue that gynecologists, given their attention to women, must all be feminists....
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: Discuss plot, point of view, character, setting, time and style in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and show how these are constitute the ‘living organism' of her novel.... Set at the turn of the 19th century, the novel is quintessentially British, as it constructs a family drama around the personal manners and social norms of pre-Victorian England.... Hence, the novel is constructed upon the centrality of marriage and its consequences to a young lady's future prospects....
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When he wrote the novel "Pamela" in 1740, Samuel Richardson became an instant celebrity, as the novel became a best seller of the time.... hellip; The girl clings to her honor throughout; never giving up her virtue in spite of all the difficult circumstances she encounters The novel deals with the class difference in the English society of the time, and the honesty and integrity of a working class girl.... Set in England of the eighteenth century, when chastity was considered to be the greatest virtue of a woman, the novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is in the form of letters, which was a popular way of writing novels during the time....
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Book Report/Review
The paper discusses the current trends of a modern english women's literature.... It looks like a modern english women's literature does not have exact boundaries.... That is a zest of a modern english women's literature.... Modern english Literature The paper discusses current trends of a modern english women's literature.... As far as we can see, in the early period of modern english literature it was very popular to talk about a woman as a social object used for reproduction or hearth and home keeping....
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Besides the character, the literary technique used to project the story is also quite similar as both authors wrote their novels in an epistolary form; in simpler word, the story is told through the correspondences of the main characters with each other.... Both creatures possess a strong fascination for the human world, which drives Frankenstein to read books by eminent authors, whereas Dracula reads english magazines to gain a deeper understanding of the human world....
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This paper, therefore, explains the work of Jane Austen on how… It also contrasts the aspects of her life.
Jane Austen was a famous novelist, prominently an english author and her work was considered as canon part of Western culture.... For example Emma, was cited to be perfected in the form, which the critics continue to approach in a perspective of the predicament of english women who were not married (Scott, 58-69)....
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The Baskerville family is being haunted by ghosts for quite some time.... After the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry, who is one of his descendants takes over the ownership of the Baskerville… Henry receives a warning letter asking him to stop being involved in the estate.... Sir Henry then requests Sherlock Holmes to carry out an investigation of the mystery....
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