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General Literature
C/LI/119. Literature review. An examination of the statement “Some idea of a child or childhood motivates writers and determines both the form and content of what they write”
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- 2250
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- 2012
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- 29.99 GBP
This paper looks at the statement “Some idea of a child or childhood motivates writers and determines both the form and content of what they write” by Peter Hunt. The paper discusses the following novels “Northern Lights” by P. Pullman (Pullman 1995), “Mortal Engines” by P. Reeve (Reeve 2001), and “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by M. Taylor (Taylor 1976). These novels are examined individually to ascertain whether or not Peter Hunt’s statement can be viewed as valid.
KEYWORDS: Northern Lights, Mortal Engines, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, P. Pullman, P. Reeve, M. Taylor, Peter Hunt,
C/LI/105. Books and films young people read and watch must address the reality of their lives. Discuss
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- 1550
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper looks at the statement of Rachel Falconer: “It is important that the books and films young people read and watch address the reality of their lives.” The meaning of the “reality of their lives” is discussed arguing that historical and imaginary backgrounds only trigger the minds of the readers and create a long lasting impact on the children.
KEYWORDS: Books and films, young people, reality of lives, Rachel Falconer, children’s literature,
S/LI/543. Is La Châtelaine de Vergy complex and disturbing text
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- 2500
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 29.99 GBP
This paper examines La Châtelaine de Vergy and aims to assess the way in which it could be described as disturbing and complex. The paper explores the way in which the narrative encourages the reader to take a deconstructionist turn. The way in which the language used within the text is examined in relation to its power to deceive.
KEYWORDS: La Châtelaine de Vergy, disturbing, complex, deconstructionist,
S/LI/505. Thomas Eliot's views on historical sense and tradition
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- 1350
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper examines the understanding of historical sense and tradition by the English poet Thomas Eliot in his essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” explaining the significance of historical sense for a poet, and arguing whether literature is born of tradition or creative talent.
KEYWORDS: Thomas Eliot, historical sense, tradition,
S/LI/493. Adaptation of ‘The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista' by Ballard
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- 1400
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper addresses the adaptation of “The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista” by J. G. Ballard reviewing the theory of adaptation and its clash with the critical theory. References are made to different views on the nature of adaptation arguing that the adaptation of narrative material into a screenplay is a creative process that helps understand the features of the genre.
KEYWORDS: Thousand Dreams of Stellavista, Ballard, adaptation,
S/MD/152. Examine the ways in which tone or narrative voice determines the issues facing cinematic adaptation
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- 1500
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 19.99 GBP
This paper examines the way in which tone or narrative voice determines the issues that face cinematic adaption. The paper discusses the cinematic adaption of a book based on real life, and uses the story of Facebook. The paper focuses on the book The Accidental Billionaires and the film The Social Network.
KEYWORDS: Narrative tone, cinematic adaption, Facebook, The Accidental Billionaires, The Social Network,
S/LI/478. Realism in children's literature: Toms Midnight Garden and Wolf
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- 1550
- DATE:
- 2011
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- 19.99 GBP
This paper discusses the concept of realism in children’s literature. The paper examines Philippa Pearce’s novel Tom’s Midnight Garden and Gillian Cross’ novel Wolf. The paper examines aspects of both novels that focus on reality and dreamlike experiences. The paper aims to assess how much reality children are expected to bear, and also how much reality adult writers are willing to give them.
KEYWORDS: Realism, children literature, Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden, Gillian Cross, Wolf, reality!,
C/LI/76. A comparison of The Diary of a Young Girl and The Complete Maus in relation to LeFebvre's theory of space
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- 1350
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 19.99 GBP
This paper looks at The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and The Complete Maus by Art Spieglman, by discussing their representations of how the Jewish population responded to imprisonment and loss of freedom. The paper compares both texts by looking at the tools and techniques used to portray the loss of freedom. The paper refers to LeFebvre’s theory of space to further discuss the topic.
KEYWORDS: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, The Complete Maus, Art Spieglman, Jews, imprisonment, loss of freedon, LeFebvre, theory of space,
S/LI/463. Fairytale No More: Declaration of Fantasy as a Serious Genre in “Alice's Adventure in Wonderland” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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- 2050
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 29.99 GBP
The paper looks at the presentation of the Fantastic as a form of storytelling analyzing “Alice's Adventure in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge. The optimism of fairy tales' perceptions is contrasted with the pessimism of human existence arguing that fantasy is not immature childish fairy stories, but a serious literary genre.
KEYWORDS: Fantasy, genre, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland,
S/LI/441. Difference as a key term in literary criticism
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- 2200
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 29.99 GBP
The paper discusses the theory that ‘language is a system of interdependent terms' which has made ‘difference' fundamental to literary criticism. Although Poststructuralists are generally agreed that language is a system of differences making meaning unstable and constantly shifting, Structuralists prefer the notion that a text can be distilled objectively into a single structure is to assume its meaning is fixed. Binary oppositions are examined and it is suggested that ‘difference' is a potent methodological device.
KEYWORDS: Literary criticism, literature, difference, Binary opposition, Structuralism, structuralist, poststructuralist,
S/LI/440. Sexual rebellion in Rossetti's Goblin Market and Joyces A Painful Case
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- 2750
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 29.99 GBP
Homosexuality and the respective author's depiction of society's attitudes towards it are discussed. Whilst in Rosetti's work, lesbianism is seen as a liberation for the two central characters, Lizzie and Laura, in Joyce's novel, Mr Duffy is stigmatised, persecuted and potentially criminalized for his desire for what is seen as sexual rebellion.
KEYWORDS: Sexual rebellion, homosexuality, lesbianism, society, literature, gender, sexuality,
S/LI/439. Sex and death in Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: Say Die and I Will Die
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- 1000
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper aims to illustrate that the tie between sex and death is linguistically evident in the phrase la petite mort, French for ‘the little death'. This phrase describes ‘the sensation of orgasm as likened to death.' The psychological mix of pleasure and unpleasure, death and sex, is shown as being inherent in Bertha Mason's character in Wide Sargasso Sea, and citing Freud, is described as a universal human condition.
KEYWORDS: Sex, death, Freud, psychoanalysis, literature, Rhys!,
C/LI/52. Differences in children's literature – adventure, fantasy, fairytale
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- 950
- DATE:
- 2010
- PRICE:
- 9.99 GBP
The paper examines how adventure, fantasy and fairytale genres in children’s literature are different in their descriptive content, appeal and relationship to their readers. The research refers to published studies on the subject: N. Anderson’s Elementary Children’s Literature: Basics for Teachers and Parents, E. Bearne’s Myth, Legend, Culture and Morality, and Bettleheim’s The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, and other secondary data sources – on-line resources, journal articles, and works of fiction. The paper discusses the importance of children’s books in terms of the development of reading skills, and how the forms of literature under discussion have changed over time and according to literary and social trends.
KEYWORDS: Children’s literature, fantasy, adventure, fairytale, education, literacy,
S/LI/431. Visions of Apocalypse: monster images in literature
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- 3300
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 39.99 GBP
The paper examines the representation of monsters and associated fears in the apocalyptic texts of H.G. Wells “The War of the Worlds” and Martin Amis' “Einstein's Monsters” comparing them to Gothic monsters, and arguing that the portrayals of monsters are rooted in the real world and reflect the fear of the human race extinction by creatures from other planets, i.e. the Martians, or by a nuclear catastrophe.
KEYWORDS: Apocalypse, monster images, H.Wells, War of the Worlds, Martin Amis, Einstein’s Monsters,
S/PS/213. How valid is the analogy between patient and text?
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- 2100
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 29.99 GBP
The paper looks at the nature of psychoanalysis arguing that Freudian theory can be applied to the analysis of texts and using Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex as an example of text analysis of the story of Oedipus. Various methods of applying psychoanalysis to literature are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Psychoanalysis, Freudian theory, text analysis,
S/LI/426. Do ideological readings of texts simply reduce them to sociology?
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- 1700
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper looks at the definitions of ‘ideology' discussing its nature in the context of socio-political theories, and arguing that the application of ideology to literature should be more subtle, because the awareness of ideology turns a literary text into a construct.
KEYWORDS: Ideology, sociology, literary text,
S/LI/421. Western stereotypes of Pacific women in literature
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- 2450
- DATE:
- 2010
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- 29.99 GBP
The paper looks at stereotypical representations of Pacific islands and their inhabitants in Western literature explaining it as a root of Pacific writers' dissidence and challenge of Eurocentric thinking. Sia Figiel's novel “They Who Do Not Grieve” is analysed describing the heroine's transformation into a Western woman and comparing her with the beautiful Pacific islander Malu depicted in Jack London's short story “The Red One”.
KEYWORDS: Western stereotypes, Pacific women, Sia Figiel, They Who Do Not Grieve, Jack London, The Red One,
S/LI/408. Review of Alan Sinfield's 'Cultural Materialism, 'Othello', and the Politics of Plausibility'
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- 3000
- DATE:
- 2009
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- 39.99 GBP
The paper reviews the essay by Alan Sinfield “Cultural Materialism, ‘Othello', and the Politics of Plausibility” defining the nature of ‘plausibility' in literary theory and arguing that literary characters, e.g. Othello, are ideological products and cultural constructs. The concept of ideology is examined with reference to the theory of Marx and Engels, conditions of plausibility are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Alan Sinfield, Cultural Materialism, ‘Othello’, and the Politics of Plausibility, Shakespeare, Othello, King Lear, plausibility,
S/LI/390. Review of Lodge's essay 'The Novelist at the Crossroads'
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- 1450
- DATE:
- 2009
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper reviews the essay by David Lodge 'The Novelist at the Crossroads' discussing his views about Robert Scholes's novel 'The Fabulators', the empirical and fictional modes of narrative, and the features of the 'nonfiction novel'.
KEYWORDS: Review, David Lodge, The Novelist at the Crossroads, novel, narrative modes, nonfictional,
S/LI/373. Can Coetzee's “Foe” be called a postcolonial rewriting of Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe”?
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- 2000
- DATE:
- 2009
- PRICE:
- 29.99 GBP
The paper examines the novel “Foe” by J.M.Coetzee arguing that it is a postcolonial rewriting of Daniel Defoe's “Robinson Crusoe” and tracing the postcolonial aspects of “Foe” through the analysis of the antithesis between Coetzee's and Defoe's portrayals of Friday, their use of spoken language, etc. References are made to the works of post-colonial theorists.
KEYWORDS: Coetzee, Foe, Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Friday, post-colonial,
S/LI/344. 'It is enough to make the journey'. How important was destination to our authors?
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- 1700
- DATE:
- 2009
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper looks at the travel literature examining the approaches to destination and journey and arguing whether the destination is always the sole purpose of a journey. The journey of the 17th century traveller Mary Rowlandson is described considering the process of discovery during the journey. The sub-genre of travel guidebook is discussed.
KEYWORDS: travel literature, destination, journey,
S/LI/345. Travel writing is no more than a mine to be excavated for the information it contains about exotic, unfamiliar cultures. Discuss
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- 1500
- DATE:
- 2009
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- 19.99 GBP
The paper analyses the features and purposes of travel literature discussing the cultural information contained in the account of Battuta's personal pilgrimage to Mecca, Captain James Cook's voyage on the Endeavour, the travel of Columbus to America, etc.
KEYWORDS: Travel literature, cultural information,
S/LI/346. The motives for writing and reading travel accounts have remained remarkably stable over the centuries. Do you agree?
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- 2000
- DATE:
- 2009
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- 29.99 GBP
The paper looks at the motives behind reading and writing narrative accounts of journeys discussing the features of the travel literature as a genre and looking at the history of its development. The role of the audience as a motivating factor is considered.
KEYWORDS: Travel literature, travel account,
C/LI/33. Aspects of Children's Literature
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- 2200
- DATE:
- 2009
- PRICE:
- 29.99 GBP
The paper examines contemporary and historical developments in children's literature in England and in Western Europe with the focus on post-colonial religious and moralist literature. The genre of writing for children is analysed through the relationship between text and social context.
KEYWORDS: Sociology, Childrens Literature, Socio-historical, Christian Religious Social Genre, Learning, Education,
S/LI/338. How far does Froissart's concentration on chivalry and knighthood misrepresent the reality of fourteenth-century warfare?
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- 2100
- DATE:
- 2009
- PRICE:
- 29.99 GBP
The paper examines the work of Jean Froissart, one of the most important chroniclers of medieval France, describing political and social features of France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the warfare between France and England, etc. The contradictions between Froissart's concern to report truthfully on the events and his love for chivalry are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Jean Froissart, French chronicler, chivalry, fourteenth century,
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