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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
series was Karen’s Island that was first published in 1995 that was followed by eight more titles between 1995 and 1998. The Reading Program series of novels is a combination of fiction and nonfiction works. The works, which range from a description of the effects of momentous events such as Hurricane Andrew or historical descriptions of the Wild American West, take a children’s perspective. Karen’s Island the first novel in the Reading Program series of novels is the story of a girl named Karen
the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record (Saunders and Dave 10-15). The term documentary was first used by John Grierson in who is a Scottish and used this term in 1926 when reviewing a film by the title “Moana” and which was originally done by Robert Flaherty. According to Grierson held that the principles of documentary required that cinema’s potential for observing life needed to be exploited from a new art form and that the fiction actor and scene needed to be replaced with
Lovecraft 3. Method 3.1 How was the data collected 3.2 How was the data analysed 4. Results and analysis 4.1 Analysis 4.2 Results 5. Conclusion 6. References 7. Appendices 1. INTRODUCTION Horror stories have always been popular throughout our history. Perhaps it is the morbidity or just perhaps that we humans like to experience evil at least in fiction. “The genre of horror fiction can also be said to harbour an increasing amount of popular material which thrives on cloche and which