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Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Stories
Throughout his career, Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) returned to a constellation of central themes that were expressed through the actions of his characters and, more important, through those characters’ reactions to events around them. These… Read More ›
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Analysis of Arthur C. Clarke’s Stories
Exposed in his childhood to both the pulp magazines of Hugo Gernsback and the English literary tradition of fantasy and science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) sometimes forges an uneasy alliance between the two… Read More ›
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Analysis of Sandra Cisneros’s Stories
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) said that she writes about the memories that will not let her sleep at night—about the stories that are waiting to be told. Drawing on the memories of her childhood and her cultural identity—the… Read More ›
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Analysis of G. K. Chesterton’s Stories
Before he began writing his Father Brown stories, G. K. Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) had already published one book of detective fiction. In The Man Who Was Thursday, Chesterton created a detective named Gabriel Syme, who… Read More ›
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Analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer’s best-known works are Troilus and Criseyde and the unfinished The Canterbury Tales, with the Book of the Duchess, the Hous of Fame, the Parlement of Foules, and The Legend of Good Women positioned in the second rank. In… Read More ›
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Analysis of Raymond Carver’s Short Stories
Nearly everything written about Raymond Carver (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) begins with two observations: He is a minimalist, and he writes about working-class people. Even when the critic is sympathetic, this dual categorization tends to stigmatize Carver… Read More ›
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Analysis of Saul Bellow’s Short Stories
Saul Bellow’s (1915 – 2005) stature in large measure owes something to the depths to which he plumbed the modern condition. He addressed the disorder of the modern age, with all its horror and darkness as well as its great… Read More ›
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Kerala PSC Collegiate Education Lecturer in English Syllabus
Extra Ordinary Gazette Date: 11.12.2019 Last Date : 15.01.2020 English – Category No. 287/2019 From Early English Literature to 18th century Module 1 For detailed study John Donne – Batter My Heart, Canonization Milton – Lycidas, Paradise Lost – Book… Read More ›
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NTA UGC NET English December 2019 Questions and Answers
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Analysis of Franz Kafka’s Stories
Franz Kafka’s (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) stories are not about love or success. They do not leave the reader feeling comfortable. Writing was, for him, a necessity. On August 6, 1914, Kafka wrote in his diary: “My… Read More ›
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Analysis of Guy de Maupassant’s Stories
Although his active literary career began in 1880 and lasted only ten years, Guy de Maupassant was nevertheless an extraordinarily productive writer whose short stories dealt with such diverse themes as war, prostitution, marital infidelity, religion, madness, cultural misunderstanding between… Read More ›
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Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Stories
Until the 1970’s, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) was known best literarily, if at all, as a “local colorist,” primarily for her tales of life in New Orleans and rural Louisiana. Chopin manages in these stories (about twothirds of her total output)… Read More ›
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Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s Stories
Any study of Ernest Hemingway’s (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) short stories must begin with a discussion of style. Reacting against the overblown, rhetorical, and often bombastic narrative techniques of his predecessors, Hemingway spent considerable time as a… Read More ›
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Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s reading in American colonial history confirmed his basically ambivalent attitude toward the American past, particularly the form that Puritanism took in the New England colonies. Especially interested in the intensity of the Puritan-Cavalier rivalry, the Puritan inclination to… Read More ›
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Analysis of Graham Greene’s Stories
“Goodness has only once found a perfect incarnation in a human body and never will again, but evil can always find a home there. Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.” So said Graham Greene in… Read More ›
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Analysis of Nikolai Gogol’s Stories
Nikolai Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) combines the consummate stylist with the innocent spectator, flourishes and flounces with pure human emotion, naturalism with delicate sensitivity. He bridges the period between Romanticism and realism in Russian literature. He… Read More ›
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Analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s Stories
Leo Tolstoy’s (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) ego embraces the world, so that he is always at the center of his fictive creation, filling his books with his struggles, personae, problems, questions, and quests for answers, and above… Read More ›
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