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- 1111: East Goes West
- One of the first works of fiction written by an Asian immigrant to the United States, Kang's novel describes his early adulthood with a poignant humor that touches not only on his most positive experiences in a new country--such as ...
- 1112: Earth 2 Puzzle
- ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...
- 1113: Dawn
- ... to Elie Wiesel’s life because they both had to deal with and feel the struggles of the Holocaust. Some reviewers consider his plots and characters more vehicle for rhetorical concerns and questions whether his fiction is art or polemick. His writings sustain the plea that death deserves no more victories and that evil should never have the last word. Most praise his sensitive insight into human behavior, his moral cander ...
- 1114: David Copperfield
- ... was also supposed to 'never have been published on any account.' Later in chap 42 this condition is repeated: 'this manuscript is intended for no eyes but mine.' Of course this is part of the fiction, after all we are reading David's story ourselves when we reach this sentence. What is David Copperfield about? I pose myself this question to help illustrate how much of an autobiography this book really ...
- 1115: Crying Of Lot 49
- ... the character¡¦s search for the meaning of life. We may find in the end that, just like Oedipa, we ended up in our search at where we started. Furthurmore, this alternation of reality with fiction, such as the description of the ¡§Peter Pinguid Society¡¨(p.49), acts to confuse the reader to such an extent that the reader is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher what is reality from ...
- 1116: Catch 22 - Satire
- ... Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch-22.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 15.3 (1979) Usborne, David. "Joseph Heller, Master of Black Satire." Independent News ...
- 1117: Cask Of Amontillado
- ... to see that he is haunted with details that he can recall fifty years later. Grimes 6 Works Cited Benton, Roger P. "Poe’s ‘The Cask’ and the ‘White Webwork Which Gleams’." Studies in Short Fiction (1991): 183-195. Fagin, N. Bryllion. The Historic Mr. Poe. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949. Gruesser, John. "Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado; Criticism & Interpretation." The Explicator (1998): 129-130. Lowell, James R. Tales ...
- 1118: Candide-Purposeful Satire
- ... respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable. Another technique Voltaire uses in Candide is that of taking actual people and events and weaving into his work of fiction. He often does this to mock or ridicule his political and literary adversaries, as shown in the conversation between the abbe' and the Parisian supper guests (page 1593). The abbe' mentions two critics who in ...
- 1119: Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 1120: Brave New World
- BRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant ...
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