John Barth

digressions are impossible to contain, and that makes it hard for him to concentrate on a particular line of narration; every image he creates breeds other images, words bring about other words, there being no end to "new figures and new chases" (Barth 2). This remark suggests that Todd's existence is, indeed, confined to the reality he forges by telling his tale; this fictitious reality regenerates itself. The tone of the passage also implies that Todd enjoys not a little the unprecedented freedom

Some of the dominant features of postmodern fictions include temporal disorder, the erosion of the sense of time, a foregrounding of words as fragmenting material signs, a pervasive and pointless use of pastiche, loose association of ideas, paranoia and the creation of vicious circles or a loss of destination between separate levels of discourse, which are all symptoms of the language disorders of postmodernist fictions. The postmodern novel may be summed up as: • Late modernism. • Anti-modernism

Charles W. Chestnutt's The Marrow of Tradition         Clearly, one can expect differing critical views of a novel; from the       author's perspective we see one view, from a publisher's another, and from       the reviewer's yet another. This is especially true of Charles W.       Chesnutt's  The Marrow of Tradition. If one observes both the contemporary       reviews of the novel and letters exchanged between Chesnutt and his       friends and publisher, Houghton

by scholarly studies of the novel’s tropes and themes, Monster embodies YAL’s embrace of Postmodernism and fits snugly within the generally agreed upon characteristics of the theory both in form and content. More recent and less critically studied, John Green’s The Fault in

First Question: The Summary The novel Possession is about a 29-year-old Roland Michell, who is at a London Library basement, examining books by a poet named Randolph H. Ash. Roland's job is to research on Mr. Ash work for his adviser. In the novel, Roland is unhappy with his job because of his salary, and he is also unhappy with his life. While he was in the basement looking at the books, two letters that Mr. Ash wrote, and when they fall out and they show a hint that will change his life. These

Letters The first letter opens with R. Walton informing his sister that he is safe in St. Petersburgh. From the first page of Walton’s writing I can see that his relationship with his sister is very close; from the language of his writing I can see that he truly cares about the person who is to receive his letter. On the 2nd page of his letter he states that going to the North Pole has been an aspiration for him since he was young. It states that Walton is a glory-seeker and is not tempted when

1. The biggest choice Celie made was to move to Tennessee for a period of time. This turned out well because she became more confident about herself. She built a pants making company and stopped relying on her friends. Although she did not realize that she was not moving until Shug announced that “Us leaving… Celie is coming to Memphis with me” (199), Celie was grateful for leaving her husband and the toxicity of the environment. She learned to fend for herself and reflected on her past. By having

Discuss the female characters in Candide. Are they victims, or natural survivors? Do they deserve more pity or more admiration? Take one side only. In Voltaire’s Candide, there is a young fellow that falls in love with a lady. She is kidnapped and the protagonist, Candide, embarks on a journey to find his love. I believe that he doesn’t really love this young lady, Cunegonde, he is in love with her looks (or is in lust, if you will). We discover that he really doesn’t love her at the end of the

Kreena Patel Book Talk For the mystery book talk, I read, “Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters” by Gail Giles. The setting takes place in present day Texas throughout the whole novel. The setting takes place in modern day Texas. The main characters are Sunny Reynolds- the main detective who was 13 years old, Jasmine Reynolds- Sunny’s older sister who was loved by everyone and known the perfect child. She was reported dead when there was a fire in the building that she was in, but was never

To begin with, Charlie and Sam develop a very strong bond in their first meeting, and as the novel progresses, Sam plays a very important female figure in Charlie’s life. She is very patient and trustworthy with Charlie and assures him that she will always be by his side. In the novel, Charlie states, “Sam put her arm around my shoulder, and she said she knew what I was going through. She told me I shouldn’t worry about it” (Chbosky,29). In this situation, Sam is comforting Charlie because he is