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C/LI/103. Post-Modern Picture Books and Their Appeal for Adults and Children

WORDS:
1500
DATE:
2011
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19.99 GBP

This paper examines postmodern picture books, and aims to assess their appeal for children and adults. The postmodern characteristics of picture books are outlined, and the paper examines the way in which meaning can be created thorough use of text, images and para text. The elements that are designed to appeal to certain age groups are assessed before conclusions are made.

 

KEYWORDS: postmodern picture books, postmodern, books, images, text, meaning, reading, literary devices,

 

S/LI/515. To what extent could Yeats be called a modernist poet?

WORDS:
4400
DATE:
2011
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49.99 GBP

This paper examines whether Yeats could be considered a modernist poet. The paper highlights the involvement that Yeats had in the modernist movement. The paper as well as looking at Yeats, also examines his contemporaries. The paper thoroughly examines extracts from Yeats work to see whether he could be described as a modernist poet. The paper also discusses the way in which Yeats may have been the origin of many of the ideas and theories mentioned.

 

KEYWORDS: Yeats, modernism!,

 

S/LI/513. An examination of Woolf's use of genre in her work

WORDS:
6550
DATE:
2011
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69.99 GBP

This paper discusses the way in which Virginia Woolf experiments with genre. The paper looks at Woolf’s works, as well as the work of people that inspired her. The genres examined range from biography to fantasy and from elegy to realism. The way in which she employed and distorted these genres is examined, and the reasons why she used them are explored. Conclusions are made regarding the similarities between Woolf’s uses of genre in her work.

 

KEYWORDS: Virginia Woolf, biography, fantasy, genre, elegy, realism,

 

C/LI/44. “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf: Piece of Modernist Literature

WORDS:
2800
DATE:
2010
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29.99 GBP

The paper analyses the narrative style and composition of Virginia Woolf’s story “Kew Gardens” providing theoretical underpinnings of the key literary concepts, and discussing the story from the perspective of plot development, setting, characterization, the use of aesthetic devices, etc. References are made to the wider context of literary modernism.

 

KEYWORDS: Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf, Modernism,

 

S/LI/418. Lukács dismisses Modernist writing as ‘escape into nothingness', as an evasion of the artist's responsibility to examine social realities. Is this a fair criticism of The Sound and the Fury?

WORDS:
2000
DATE:
2010
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29.99 GBP

The paper critically examines the rejection of modernist literature by Georg Lukács who claims that it is incapable of revealing social issues. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner is discussed as a classic modernist novel arguing that the interior monologues and stream-of-consciousness do not prevent the author from addressing social issues.

 

KEYWORDS: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, modernist literature, stream-of-consciousness, interior monologue, social issues, Georg Lukács,

 

S/LI/316. Narrative Structure in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

WORDS:
2800
DATE:
2008
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29.99 GBP

The paper analyses the novel Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (1922) and the film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles (1941) considering their influence on modern literature and cinema, and discussing Woolf's experimentation with the 'stream of consciousness', cinematic techniques of presenting 'multiple narrations', etc.

 

KEYWORDS: Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, stream of consciousness, mu,

 

S/LI/317. W.B. Yeats and Modernism

WORDS:
2800
DATE:
2008
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29.99 GBP

The paper examines the features of the Modernist movement that appeared at the turn of the twentieth century and reflected the upheaval and change caused by technological advances and new ideologies. Poetic works of William Butler Yeats are analyzed in the context of his contemporary culture discussing his use of symbolic imagery and stylistic devices.

 

KEYWORDS: Modernist movement, Yeats, poetry,

 

S/LI/323. 'No poet, nor artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to dead poets and artists', T.S. Eliot. How far is this comment useful in understanding the role of tradition

WORDS:
3800
DATE:
2008
PRICE:
39.99 GBP

The paper addresses the issue of cultural succession in art and literature arguing that the turn from pre-modernity to modernity broke literary tradition with an explosion of innovation and creative energy. The features of literary and artistic modernism are reviewed with references to Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud, Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism, etc. The opposite views of T.S. Eliot, Charles Baudelaire, etc. on the role of inheritance in European literature are discussed.

 

KEYWORDS: Modernism, art, literary tradition,

 

S/P/354. Why does Meursault wish to be hated on the day of his execution?

WORDS:
1700
DATE:
2008
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19.99 GBP

The paper analyses the protagonist of 'The Outsider' by Camus presenting the gist of the story and looking at the philosophy behind Camus's 'outsider' concept and the absurd meaninglessness of human existence.

 

KEYWORDS: Camus, The Outsider, absurd,

 

S/LI/182. 'I shall do my work for women, better than the suffrage'. Lawrence. To what extent is this borne out in Lawrence's presentation of women in 'Sons and Lovers'?

WORDS:
2500
DATE:
2007
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29.99 GBP

The paper examines the novel by D. H. Lawrence 'Sons and Lovers' focusing on his portrayal of society's attitudes towards women. Lawrence's biography is reviewed revealing his ideas about sexual inequality, his female characters are analysed.

 

KEYWORDS: Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, women, female,

 

P/H/69. Remembrance of World War I in art and literature

WORDS:
3500
DATE:
2006
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39.99 GBP

The paper examines the ways of remembering the battles of the First World War including state, collective and individual remembrance. The role of the war in changing traditional literary conventions and introducing modern cinema and theatre genres is discussed highlighting the return to the Apocalypse images.

 

KEYWORDS: First World War, remembrance, literary conventions, modern, traditional,

 

P/LI/17. Modes of narration: comparative analysis

WORDS:
2000
DATE:
2005
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29.99 GBP

The paper offers a comparative analysis of the narrative structure of the works by D. Thomas, I. McEwan and A. Chekhov. The plots of the stories are briefly outlined, the evocative imagery that enhances the narrative is highlighted, paragraph structure, types of context and modes of exposition ace commented on.

 

KEYWORDS: li, modes, narration, comparative,

 

S/LI/25. Orwell was unfortunately addicted to ?telling the truth. Discuss

WORDS:
2500
DATE:
2003
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29.99 GBP

George Orwell was an opponent of tyranny, intolerance, dishonesty and injustice in all its forms. This essay looks at the nature of his scrupulously journalistic style as he seeks to expose what he considered 'the monstrous iniquities of modern society' in a selection of his major prose works.

 

KEYWORDS: li, orwell, unfortunately, addicted, telling, truth, discuss,

 

S/LI/27. Explore the range and variety of Lawrences response to the natural world. You may make use of either fiction alone, or fiction and poetry

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2900
DATE:
2003
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29.99 GBP

This essay examines D.H. Lawrence's approach to nature and the use of the natural world in his fiction. At once his writing about nature functions as a kind of reportage for perfect sensory images, elsewhere the natural world exists as a psychological arena for human interaction and self expression.

 

KEYWORDS: li, explore, range, variety, lawrences, response, natural, world, fiction, alone, fiction, poetry,

 

S/LI/28. ?Sylvia Plath has the ability to render familiar things unfamiliar. Discuss.

WORDS:
2500
DATE:
2003
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29.99 GBP

This essay looks at the relationship between the evocative inner landscapes of Plath's poems and the commonplace materials out of which they are constructed.

 

KEYWORDS: li, sylvia, plath, ability, render, familiar, unfamiliar, discuss,

 

S/LI/29. ?The artistic tendency is not expansive, but a contraction (Beckett on Proust). Discuss.

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2200
DATE:
2003
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29.99 GBP

Samuel Beckett was one of the 20th century's most pioneering and influential playwrights. This essay looks at the ways in which Beckett experimented with theatre and challenged the traditional notion of what a play should be.

 

KEYWORDS: li, the, artistic, tendency, expansive, contraction, beckett, proust, discuss,

 

S/LI/31. ?Only Connect. Consider the theme of communication in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Howards End and Mr Andrews.

WORDS:
3000
DATE:
2002
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39.99 GBP

This essay examines Forster's attitude and approach to human relations and sentiment in a selection of his fictional works.

 

KEYWORDS: li, only, connect, consider, theme, communication, angels, fear, tread, howards, andrews,