Popular Fiction Studies: The Advantage of a New Field Stephen Knight’s Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction, begins with the claim that not very much has been written about crime fiction. This was true in relative terms; even if a great deal had, really, been written about crime fiction, the most celebrated and conservatively literary of popular forms, it was only a stream compared to the flood of work that flourished in the nineteen eighties. Crime fiction and other established genres of popular
Introduction When it was proposed to the class to work on a literary work, I decided not to talk about a book in concrete, but rather about Jane Austen, in general. I will talk about various topics relating to the author, including her biography, since some aspects of her life contributed to her writing forms; her common way of writing and also the main topics discussed; the general aspects of the characters and also criticism regarding her. Biography Jane Austen was born in 16 December 1775
successful books, Stephen King has quickly made himself the most renowned author of the horror genre and can prove it from the countless awards he has received like the British Fantasy Award, Edgar Grand Master Award, and Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction. Because so many of his books are successful, many of them have been adapted into mini series on television or even into movies. Most notably the screen adaptations for The Shining (1980) and It (1990 and 2017) are what most people immediately think
Chacko 17/PELA/034 Clues from Novel to Screen in the Novel Agatha Christie’s Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case Agatha Christie is considered as the Queen of Crime all over the world. Agatha Christie’s novels are related to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. An intelligent and famous investigator, Hercule Poirot is the major character in these Detective stories. Poirot is a French private who is world renown for solving some of the puzzling mysteries. Several films and television adaptations of Christie’s
Post modernism is a general term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, culture and literary criticism. Post modernism is largely a reaction to the scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. The term post modernism is first used around the 1870’s in various areas as a general theory of a historical movement. The present modernism is characterized by the ascendancy of science and explaining the world. It is often associated with identity, authority, certainty
ACKNOWLEDGMENT I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Mr. Antriksh Panchal, for encouraging and guiding me to explore my views in the field of Fantasy Fiction and Medieval Period. His support in each circumstance was a great help in completion of my Summer Project. I would also like to thank AIESR for giving me opportunity to explore in depth on a topic of interest relevant to programme. I would like to thank my teachers, parents and friends for their support in successful
in the ground there lived….”, which create a parallelism that clarify the question. Bilbo Baggins represent linearity in this novel because, in addition he is the main character, he is the tale driver thread so if we make him disappear from the literary context, the novel would have no sense becoming in a fantastic whole of tales without a real manifest. The tale started in a hobbit’s hole, it continues in a Middle Earth guided travel and, finally, it finishes in the starter point after umpteenth
INTRODUCTION If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact
patriarchal system. The paper intends to study the plethora of the chronic mental anguish as rendered by the dweller of the paradise on earth— Naseem Shafai. Naseem Shafai— a marvellous, subtle and intense poetess of Kashmir, whose literary talent conferred on her Sahitya Akademi award in 2011. She carved her space in the
Negotiating cultural boundaries in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura The examination and investigation of the connections and divergences of the writings of distinctive people groups of the world Weltliteratur was a term instituted by Goethe which was of all countries and people groups, and which, by a corresponding trade of thoughts, intervenes in the middle of countries and serves to enhance the soul of man. Savant writer Raja Rao has been termed as the most splendid expert of Indian writing in English. At