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- 161: Donald Barthelme
- ... the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American stylists (Robert et al, 919). Donald Barthelme ... two-dimensional parodies of themselves, rather than fully developed individuals. To get a feel for what the way Donald Barthelme writes I read a few of his short stories. Barthelme is a writer of experimental fiction who creates funny and disturbing stories by putting different parts of stories that are seemingly unimportant to one another together (Marowski and Matuz, 34). Anatole Broyard says , Barthelme is so funny that most readers will ... of these people that Barthelme is funny. I do agree thought that he does seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelme s fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelme s fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no ...
- 162: Types of Conflicts in Literature
- ... is bad and what is right from what is wrong. There are no direct contrasts. These contrasts are less marked than the ones in works of escape literature. The conflict present in these types of fiction is extremely obvious and tends to be shown through the use of pitting the good guy against the bad guy. Through an examination of the conflicts present in The Most Dangerous Game and The Destroyers, this difference can clearly be seen. For the most part, the problems that arise in everyday life do not have clearly defined meanings, and they are not always so clearly marked. However, in commercial fiction works such as The Most Dangerous Game, the conflict between protagonist and antagonist is clear-cut and identifiable. The purpose of such literary works is not to emulate life, but rather to allow the reader to escape into a world of fantasy where he or she knows what the struggles are and why they are occurring. The driving force for these types of fiction is the element of physical conflict that provides the vast majority of their excitement. Although the focus is mainly on the physical aspects of conflict, there will often be some sort of moral discord ...
- 163: Discussing Literary Genre
- ... genre may not resemble the modern literary works in that genre. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, considered to be the father of the modern short story, show the contrast between the classification of short fiction in the 19th century and today. Poe s short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue , provides suspense and mystery; however, the story does not include the main character s moment of consciousness, the key ingredient in classifying modern short stories. Although The Murders in the Rue Morgue does not entail a moment of revelation, the story was regarded as short fiction in 1841. The contrast between early short fiction and the modern short story demonstrates the varying qualities of the genre between its preliminary stages and the present, and shows the substantial transformation which occurred within the genre. The types of genres not ...
- 164: Do Androids Dream Of Electric
- ... of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldn't write at all. With all of Philip K. Dick's ups and downs, he continues to be highly acclaimed in the realm of science fiction, as one of the greatest writers of his style. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a science fiction novel, based in the year 2021. The story revolves around a bounty hunter named, Rick Deckard. In these times, the world is covered with debrie from a nuclear fall out. In turn, other colonies were ... the life of a bounty hunter, the reader gets an in-depth view of the time and situation. Another solid aspect to the story is its use of what defines the story as a science fiction, the realistic material such as the, animals, television and the use of San Francisco, an actual city. The other fictional items used are extremely believable, such as hover cars, androids, lazer guns, the idea ...
- 165: Crying of Lot 49
- ... allows the reader to see more of his world than any of his other characters can. Pynchon wants to lure the reader into the character's search for meaning. Furthermore, the alternations of fact with fiction, such as the description of the historical basis of the Peter Pinguid Society8, confuse the reader to such an extent that he is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher reality from illusion. Pynchon even denies the reader and Oedipa time to sort out the information by moving rapidly to the next event. The blending of authenticity with fiction introduces an epistemological aspect to Pynchon's work. Much of The Crying of Lot 49 tackles the historical evidence for the Trystero. Scholars have found that the actual history of the Trystero, a Renaissance postal ... were buried underneath a lake after W.W.II. Why is it not possible that their bones were used for cigarette filter? Pynchon wants the reader to recognize and plunge into the shaded area between fiction and reality. Pierce and Pynchon tell Oedipa and the reader, respectively, that we don't know much for certain. In Pynchon's comical world, our senses deceive us, ruling out an Empirical solution to ...
- 166: The Short Story Theories Of Ed
- ... both of the articles, each author is trying to share his view, or theory on the short story. The view of Edgar Allen Poe is very pessimistic toward the novel and other forms of long fiction, while B.M. Ejxenbaum takes a more analytic approach. Poe writes, The novel certainly requires what is denominated a sustained effort but this is a matter of perseverance, and has but a collateral relation to ... put into a work, such as a novel, is your talent, and it is directly related through thought and emotional drive. Ejxenbaum uses much less opinion in his explanation of the differing styles of short fiction and those of novels. The novel is based off a history, or of travels, while the short story, which is generally more fundamental in form, is based off folklore and anecdotes. The short story must ... to give insight into how Poe created his unique and famous effects and moods. Poe was a master at creating effect, in most cases one of mystery and gloom, which drove his poems and short fiction. But he also was a storyteller, and like any good storyteller, he forms plots. And with those plots, he forms his moods and effect. Ejxenbaum sums up this idea with, The particular attention paid ...
- 167: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... and learning for herself, Hong Kingston illustrates her individual voice as heroic and fearless. In a different perspective, Kiana Davenport, defines a different type of warrior woman. In Davenport s The Lipstick Tree, she uses fiction as a tool to comprehend a young woman s search for identity. Similar to Woman Warrior, The Lipstick Tree unravels the young woman s discovery of her identity based on cultural rejections. In this story ... She climbed to the top of the bunker again, and studied the horizon, seeing herself decanted into the future, going even further than WeWak Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kiana Davenport utilize the methods of fiction and non-fiction to represent influential relationships such as the mother and daughter. In each of these texts, the writers present their perspective and knowledge, varying by culture and context. From each writer, the expression that individuality ...
- 168: Gender Marriage and the Cold War
- ... past. "Trying" is the operative word, because men, women, and minorities had been given a taste of autonomy, which they did not wish to let go of. The two authors make use of the science fiction genre, to shed light on the growing dissatisfaction of the status quo. Vonnegut gives the reader a clear look at what he believes will happen if there is no change, and Heinlein provides a perspective ... parallels the growing paranoia of the American public. The idea that a communist could look like anyone made everyone a potential threat. The fact that this growing fear is disguised in the form of science fiction, is further evidence of the point Heinlein was trying to make. Vonnegut uses a similar "insidious" threat (machines) to show how we can be threatened by something we take for granted. There is a quote ... perfect union was a faηade helped give people an idea about why honest communication is so important. Both authors served a necessary purpose. They knew that these ideas would be controversial, The use of science fiction as a venue made it much easier to spoon feed this knowledge to an ignorant public. Heinlein makes clear his vision of the coming rebellion against the establishment in closing lines of The Puppet ...
- 169: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... was gloom." Works Cited Capps, Jack L. "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Explicator, Washington D.C., 1982 Spring, 40:3, 25. Easterly, Joan Elizabeth. "Lachrymal Imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1991 Summer, 28:3, 339-43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodmam Brown", The Story and Its Writer, 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 595-604. Shear, Walter. "Cultural Fate and Social Freedom in Three American Short Stories", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1992 Fall, 29:4, 543-549. Tritt, Michael. "Young Goodman Brown and the Psychology of Projection", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1986 Winter, 23:1, 113-117.
- 170: Visitors From Oz
- Visitors From Oz The book Visitors From Oz, written by Martin Gardner is a very interesting fiction about Dorothy Gale, Scarecrow, and The Tin Woods Man, they have been invited to New York City by a movie producer by the name of Samuel Gold. The story begins by the three of them ... fairy tale, good conquers over evil and they get back to Oz safely. Samuel Gold is a man with a great imagination, he believes that anything can happen and what most people believe to be fiction probably is real. For instance when he was a young boy his mother read to him the Oz books, and it was from the Oz books that he learned to read. Not only did he learn to read he learned about a whole new and different place called Oz. Even though Samuels mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed. One day after Samuel had grown and had ...
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