Perhaps the main debate adjoining popular fiction is the significance and meaning of genre. Literary generic categories, as we understand them in the United States, have existed since the nineteen thirties, although dedicated scholarly attention began only in the nineteen seventies. Frederic Jameson’s article Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre argued that ‘genres are essentially contracts between a writer and his readers; or rather … they are literary institutions … like other agreements or contacts’
what female characters of Fitzgerald’s fiction represent in order to enhance the overall understanding of the position of 1920s women, generally, and their role in Fitzgerald fiction, specifically. However, in order to enhance all the different perspectives and possible interpretations of Fitzgerald cultural production, the Marxist, historical, and biographical criticism will also be used in the studying the image of woman in Fitzgerald’s fiction. The historical approach will be used to put Fitzgerald’s
An Analysis of Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real For centuries, the concept of race has been a major social issue in the United States and its definition has changed over time. Today, the concept of race is defined as "a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits" (e.g., "Race," n.d., para.1). The article "Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of
“The Discourse of History.” The Rustle of Language. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 127-40. Cobley, Evelyn. “Postmodernist War Fiction: Findley’s The Wars.” Canadian Literature 147 (1995): 98-124. Davey, Frank. Post-National Arguments: The Politics of the Anglophone-Canadian Novel since 1967. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Findley, Timothy. The Wars. 1977. London:
Chapter I THE PROBLEM Introduction African literature has tended to reflect the cultural and political phases of the continent because African fiction has been very much influenced by culture and politics. Beginning from the colonial days, African fiction spans the succession of cultural clashes and political crises which have beset the continent. For the countries in Africa, the experience of colonialism plays an important role in the process of understanding their history. Postcolonial studies
to counter the narrative of colonial literature and to demonstrate the narrative of the colonized native. The use of fiction as a tool to rewrite history has been a well-established practice in the field of postcolonial literature across the globe. The inference is that account of India’s colonial experience represented in literary works of British writers is partial in historical context as it overlooks the subjugation of colonized Indians. In this
Transformation of the Idea of History in A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters The usual understanding of history as a phenomenon is mostly abstract. Some people would define history as a consequence of dates when great battles took place and Monarchs finished their reigns with mysterious deaths. The history of the world is usually narrowed to numbers, names, toponyms and – what is significant – books. Not only textbooks on history, but literature itself represents history through words and pages
even children during this economic cataclysm. Now literary scholar Laura Hapke has enriched our understanding of women's experiences during the Great Depression with Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s. Examining a wide range of popular fiction produced during the 1930s, Hapke looks at the literary and cultural depictions of homemakers and wage-earning women. She looks at the works of radical and leftist writers as well as generally read
perfect or imperfect relationship between the two. An analysis of multiple books through a period of the 20th century were the best sources in which to compare the most recent forms of social constructions of gender and how that influences fictional writing. For this reason, the historical context in which each author is writing is also important. The books used are, Herland written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915, followed by the dystopian fiction Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1932
This has created a new revolution in the critical analysis to explain the 'individuality, choice, ethical responsibility, and open time". This has created a change in the on look of narrative techniques. The thesis focuses on bringing out the concepts of the theory of Chronotopes in the novel written by Hosseini. This focuses on bringing out a wider inspection that the theory can also be applied to trace down the life of a character in a fiction. The protagonist of the novel Mariam is constantly