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- 181: Kindred
- Octavia Butlers novel Kindred is categorized as science fiction because of the existence of time travel. However, the novel does not center on the schematics of this type of journey. Instead, the novel deals with the relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman from ... slavery from the point of view of a truly "free" black woman, as opposed to an enslaved one describing memories. On a more superficial level, the fact that the novel has been deemed as "science fiction" opens it up to a greater audience. It is safe to say that the majority of people cannot relate to the troubles and scars of the antebellum south, in fact the only living persons who ... to Dana, because every time she returns, she finds Rufus years older, and acting that much more like his father. This poses one of the general themes that go along with time travel in science fiction. Every protagonist has visions of grandeur of making the future a "better" place. So they go back in time and try to influence the past in order to rearrange the future. But, in each ...
- 182: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... 1946. The work Hiroshima, by Jon Hersey, from which the opening quote is taken, first appeared as a long article in the New Yorker, then shortly after in book form. The book is a non-fiction account of the bombing of Hiroshima and the immediate aftermath. It is told from the point-of-view of six hibakusha, or "survivors" of the atomic blast. In four chapters Hersey traces how the these ... after the war, not much information was available to general public concerning what kind of destruction the atomic bombs had actually caused in Japan. But starting with Hersey's book and continuing with other non-fiction works, such as David Bradley's No Place To Hide, which concerned the Bikini Island nuclear tests, Americans really began to get a picture of the awesome power and destructiveness of nuclear weapons. They saw ... I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , this movie was Kubrick's viewpoint on how mad the entire Cold War and arms race had become. Based a little known book by English science fiction writer Peter George, Red Alert, the movie is about how one maverick Air Force general, who is obviously suffering a severe mental illness, concocts a plan to save the world from the Gioielli 8Communists. ...
- 183: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... stark raving reality as an adult. ( Stephen King Nightmares and Dreamscapes : 8 ) This quote from one of America's leading writers' highlights one of the most important reasons for the use of fantasy in gothic fiction. Fantasy cannot only create terror but can mentally protect us from real life horrors which we don't want to acknowledge - not necessarily a good thing as much gothic fiction has shown. I will study the interplay between the elements of realism and fantasy via the use of the following texts: Angela Carter's' The Bloody Chamber focusing mainly on "The Bloody Chamber" and "The ... also be references to Stanley Kubrick's film version of The Shining and Wes Craven's modern gothic film The People Under the Stairs. The most obvious use of the fantasy/reality interface in gothic fiction is the fact that the fantasy almost always exists within the reality. On a basic level this means that the stereotypical gothic castle where the story ( a fantasy ) unfolds is always in a real ...
- 184: Narrative Structure On ABSALOM
- ... history involves the economy and local Indians in Mississippi. Faulkner's land, in north Mississippi, had been home to the Chickasaw Indians in the early 19th century, and they appear frequently throughout much of his fiction and even turn up briefly in Absalom, Absalom!. The Chickasaw's only roles in this novel, however, are to surrender their land and silently disappear. It was because of the federal and state governments that ... the novel. As the storytelling begins, it depends more upon the character's actually telling the story to each other, which suggests a commentary on the art of storytelling itself. This is called metafiction, or fiction about fiction. Absalom, Absalom! is considered the greatest work of America's greatest novelist, one of that handful of American writers who challenged readers the most pleasurably and provocatively (Parker 11). Its capacity to challenge does ...
- 185: LA Confidential And Film Noir
- ... were adapted by film noir filmmakers. Film noir started during the mid 1940s and has been a popular film style ever since, yielding such contemporary movies like The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995), Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998). These films have proved that film noir is not a method dedicated to past decades, but rather an innovative style of film ... Sid Hudgens, editor for Hush Hush magazine, a sleazy tabloid concerned with getting a news story no matter what the consequences are. Typical of film noir, the story is adapted from a tabloid or pulp fiction novel. Sid Hudgens describes a town of beauty, filled with beaches, people, and economic potential. He tells how anyone can achieve the American dream in Los Angeles and how it truly is the greatest place ... message is portrayed by both generations of film noir: corruption is hidden behind a faηade of honorable images. It is safe to say then, whether film noir comes in the form of LA Confidential, Pulp Fiction, Chinatown, or ever The Maltese Falcon, film noir is a genre accepted and loved by all generations, keeping it a method of filmmaking that will never fade. Reference: Buss, Robin. French Film Noir. New ...
- 186: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by a Chicano or a Chicana. The only two plays I have ever read in Spanish were not written by a Chicanos: Boda de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca (in which I ... of playing the part of Alonzo). I put away the Whitman poem and became lost in my own critical thought. Was there not a single Chicano or Chicana that had ever written a work of fiction? I went to the library's computerized card catalogue system to investigate this matter. Of course I found Chicano fictional writers; however, not as many as I wish I would've found. And so I ... Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which was originally printed in 1991 and was the recipient of such awards: PEN center USA Was Literary Award (1991), Lannen Literary Award (1991), QPB New Voices Award in Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a Before Columbus Foundation ...
- 187: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... Although not strictly autobiographical, Rhys uses cultural and topographical descriptions to both illustrate her own experiences in Dominica in the early, formative years of her life and to authenticate what she says. She sets her fiction in a time of upheaval and disruption in Dominica, following the emancipation of slaves, and in order to do so shifts the approximate dates used in Jane Eyre, but the significance of this shift is ... in thematic content and characterisation. Her book was written for very personal reasons and invited many comparisons with events in her own life. Antoinette represents the culmination of her female fictional characters. In Rhys s fiction, for the leading lady, we can invariably read Rhys herself. I have therefore focused on those themes with direct relevance to Antoinette. There are a whole series of binary oppositions and comparisons considered by Rhys: Love-hate, fear-attraction, black-white, Anglican-Catholic, history-fiction, freedom-captivity, male-female, British-French. Their number, along with the clear lack of distinction between them, are indicative of the conflicting forces at work, both within Dominican society and those impacting on it ...
- 188: Rocking Horse Winner 2
- ... the talent that he has. Works Cited Beauchamp, Gorman. "Lawrence's The Rocking-Horse Winner." Explicator 31.5 (1973): Item 32. Fitz, L. T. "'The Rocking-Horse Winner' and The Golden Bough." Studies in Short Fiction 9 (1973): 199-200. Junkins, Donald. "'The Rocking-Horse Winner': A Modern Myth." Studies in Short Fiction 2.1 (1964): 87-89. Martin, W. R. "Fancy or Imagination? 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'." College English 24 (1962): 64-65. Steinbeck, John. "The Rocking-Horse Winner." Modern Fiction Studies 9.1 (1965): 390-391.
- 189: Open Arms
- ... same idolatry and could be dismissed with the same scorn. Lord Acton had said that she was greater than Dante; Herbert Spencer exempted her novels, as if they were not novels, when he banned all fiction from the London Library. She was the pride and paragon of her sex. Moreover, her private record was not more alluring than her public. Asked to describe an afternoon at the Priory, the story-teller ... in the actual presence, kept his distance and kept his head, and never read the novels in later years with the light of a vivid, or puzzling, or beautiful personality dazzling in his eyes. In fiction, where so much of personality is revealed, the absence of charm is a great lack; and her critics, who have been, of course, mostly of the opposite sex, have resented, half consciously perhaps, her deficiency ... loss seems inappropriate. Everything to such a mind was gain. All experience filtered down through layer after layer of perception and reflection, enriching and nourishing. The utmost we can say, in qualifying her attitude towards fiction by what little we know of her life, is that she had taken to heart certain lessons not usually learnt early, if learnt at all, among which, perhaps, the most branded upon her was ...
- 190: Down Goes Hurston
- ... dream about the getting breakfast in morning. In tradition most blacks would wake up on cold hard earth and go straight to work, and yet Hurston disregards to state reality. Even though the book is fiction, it must obey the three themes of the Harlem Renaissance. Racial oppression includes lynching and Hurston does not express these racist actions. In the course of the novel Janie does not receive much punishment from ... was in favor of the story that was making him laugh before she even heard it"(90). This does not sound like Hurston has written the truth about the South. This whole book contains more fiction than non-fiction. Therefore critiques should ignore this book in the Harlem Renaissance. Hurstons uncontrollable desire to ignore the real truth about racial oppression has left her book in the dark during the Harlem Renaissance. Life ...
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