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Huck's Moral Development in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2011-03-10T10:49:00.001+01:00

One of the most interesting themes in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is Huck’s moral development who despite his close relationship with Jim is pro-slavery and is thus plagued with his ambivalent conscience because of his collaboration in Jim’s escape. In the early chapters with Jim, Huck cannot...

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The Top Scottish Castles for Tourists

2010-11-18T16:44:00.000+01:00

In ancient times Scottish castles served as a dwelling for Scottish inhabitants while providing security and defence in case of enemy attacks. The thousands of castles located in Scotland are all infused with Scottish culture and ancient history and are definitely a must-see for anyone planning a...

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The Origins of Boxing Day in the UK

2010-11-18T16:39:00.001+01:00

In the United Kingdom the secular holiday referred to as Boxing Day is celebrated on December 26, on the same day of the Feast of St. Stephen, the day after Christmas. The origins of Boxing Day has deep roots, some argue that its origins date back to medieval times. Nonetheless it became recognised...

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The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe

2010-11-18T16:31:00.000+01:00

The Book of San Michele is generally considered biographical in its presentation, even though the book gives scarce information about Munthe’s private life. Its structure is a number of loosely interwoven short stories recounting among other episodes the construction of his home in Capri. The book...

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Comparing the movie adaptation of The French Lieutenant's Woman with the novel by John Fowles

2010-11-18T16:28:00.000+01:00

John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman alternates from a representation of characters and events using a form of modified realism followed by a shattering of the same illusion it creates. Fowles’s Brechtian techniques emphasise the temporal distance between the ‘real’ world of historical...

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2010-11-18T16:23:00.000+01:00

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner grew out of a conversation with Wordsworth on the nature of God’s benignity and if God is the notion of goodness why did he create hell? Wordsworth looked at nature as benign and a reflection of God, but Coleridge could not feel the same...

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Eighteenth Century Vampire Controversy

2010-11-18T16:14:00.001+01:00

"If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of the vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?"...

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10 Romantic Ideas for Valentine's Day

2010-11-18T13:09:00.000+01:00

On Valentine's Day it is surely apt to celebrate the person we love with style. For some, Valentine’s Day will be celebrated with their new boyfriends or girlfriends; for others, Valentine’s Day will be a day to remind their long-term boyfriend or spouse how much they actually care. To celebrate...

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Roland Barthes and Post-Structuralism

2010-09-26T20:55:00.001+02:00

In "The Death of the Author", Barthes stresses that literature should not be appreciated from the point of view of the author. He stressed the liberation of the reader from the tyranny of the author. He posited that meaning is generated from the text and not from the author’s biography. Read more...

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Roman Jakobson: The Metaphoric and the Metonymic Texts

2010-09-25T16:30:00.002+02:00

Jakobson brought notions of linguistics to narrative structures. What Jakobson did was to make a parallel of language with the narrative structure of literature. A narrative structure is a linear sequence that is basically chronological. However, narrative can also be achronological, which usually...

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Structuralist Theories: A Very Short Introduction

2010-09-24T22:30:00.004+02:00

Contemporary literary theory makes a distinction between a work and a text. With Structuralist theories, meaning is interpreted from the text. Text is derived from the word “tessutus” meaning a woven thing, therefore implying the notion of intertextuality and the notion that literature depends on...

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Jane Eyre: Passion and Reason in Charlotte Bronte's Novel

2010-09-23T15:09:00.003+02:00

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre the reader witnesses the rejection of the rational approach toward love and matrimony when Jane refuses to marry St. John Rivers because she does not love him, while he wishes to marry her on the grounds that she will make a suitable wife for him. Read more on...

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Literary Theory: The Characteristics of Russian Formalism

2010-09-21T14:04:00.001+02:00

Russian Formalism made a distinction between sjuzet (plot) and fabula (story). The plot is strictly literary, whereas the story is raw material awaiting the organizing hand of a writer. The plot is not merely the events of the story; it also encompasses the literary devices used to narrate the...

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Literary Theory: An Introduction to Russian Formalism

2010-09-21T13:08:00.005+02:00

Russian Formalism applies a formal method as the scientific basis for critical literary analysis.Russian Formalists were interested in the analysis of the text by using a formal method as the scientific basis for literary theory. There was thus a shift away from the moral approach to literature...

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2010-09-20T17:09:00.000+02:00

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Louis Althusser: Ideology and Literature

2010-09-19T12:14:00.001+02:00

According to Althusser, ideology becomes most dangerous when it begins to negate itself. This refers to a situation where ideology has become so insidious that it comes to a point where it can negate itself. This is of course worrying to those Marxist critics who are worried that literature...

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Marxist Theory: Marxism, Literature, and Ideology

2010-09-18T12:04:00.001+02:00

Literature is a most important field of study for discovering those aspects of ideology that are made to seem natural. Literature might internalize ideologies, it might reflect them, or subject them. Marxist critics like Lukacs, Eagleton, and Williams held that literature is a point where ideology...

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Critical Theory and the Humanistic Tradition in Literature

2010-09-16T17:01:00.001+02:00

The idea that there cannot be an ideology in literature is in itself an ideology called liberal humanism. Liberal humanism was based on the idea that one should study literature for its own sake because it was enriching. The humanists Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold both wrote about literature...

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Virginia Woolf and the Modernist Movement in Literature

2010-09-15T18:01:00.001+02:00

Virginia Woolf was a prominent figure in the denunciation of the prevailing way of writing fiction and the view of the world realism and naturalism embodied. In her essay ‘Modern Fiction’ she wrote that novelists by focusing on every detail "to the last button" of their characters’ coats miss...

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The White Devil: Flamineo and Vittoria

2010-09-15T16:46:00.001+02:00

In both Webster's revenge tragedies and Jonson's comedies there is the idea that people who dissent from virtue descend to the level of the beast. In The White Devil, Webster reduces mankind to the level of the beast, because in the words of Alexander Pope, man is made "half to… Read more on...

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Realism and Naturalism in Literature

2010-09-15T16:35:00.002+02:00

Realism is derived from the concept of “mimesis” of Aristotle’s Poetics. Realism is thus the notion to imitate and mimic everyday life. The aim of the realist text is to evoke the impression that the characters really exist and that the events narrated are the events of ordinary experience that...

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The White Devil: The Theme of Corruption in John Webster's Play

2010-09-13T19:40:00.002+02:00

In The White Devil the characters in power take the law in their hands. The Catholic Church and the political state are involved in shady under dealings that represent a cloudy and chaotic kind of justice which causes further confusion. The White Devil: The Theme of Corruption in John Webster's...

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Memoranda During the War by Walt Whitman

2010-09-09T16:16:00.002+02:00

Walt Whitman predicted that the Civil War would never get into the books, that the real war would never be remembered. In Memoranda during the War he attempted to “furnish a few stray glimpses into that life” by focusing on the plight of the common soldiers. Whitman went to war when word reached...

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Syllable Structure of the English Language

2010-09-09T15:56:00.000+02:00

Although difficult to define, the syllable is a unit native speakers usually have workable intuitions about. In the majority of cases native speakers tend to agree on the number of syllables of a given word although they may not agree on where the syllable boundaries come. Thus, everyone will...

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How to Fix a Slow Computer

2010-09-09T15:53:00.000+02:00

There are five important utilities to maintain and optimise the operation of disk drives. These are CHKDSK, Scandisk, Defrag, Backup, and antivirus utilities. With the exception of ScanDisk all these utilities have been available since MS-DOS. Backup, ScanDisk, and Defrag are accessed from under...

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