when used in actual novels metafiction can be one of the most confusing concepts. According to writer, David Foster, “If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.” Tim O’Brien’s, The Things They Carried, uses this idea of metafiction in order to draw out real emotions from stories where story truth triumphs over happening truth. In the chapter “Spin”, Tim O’Brien uses forms of metafiction to show the true impact war has on soldiers psychologically
that consumed and ultimately destroyed him. The main display of that bitterness comes in an invented scene in which Nixon phones Frost in his hotel room, and pours out his bitterness. No excessive liberty was taken in the invention of the scene as a device to display this critical aspect of Nixon's persona, but it goes further than that by also distorting the plot. In the imagined conversation, Nixon heightens the supposed collision between them ("I shall come at you with everything I got") and that
photographs, films, advert, films, and newspaper adverts, web pages, radio programs etc. As for example in horror text there are elements like creepy house horrible deaths, supernatural elements, monsters thunder and lightning etc. Iconography is the thing we identify as belonging to one particular genre. Thus the main objective of our study is the understanding of the meaning of the use of codes or the language of these genres. Some of the examples of Genres
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Ever since home computers were sold in 1970, it keeps on innovating and changing the world. People have always been drawn to technology ever since it became a very important part of every home. Together with technology, publishing was intensely changed because of the Internet. From hard copy newspapers, magazines, textbooks, and periodicals to digitalized soft copies of these articles to be published in the internet where it would be convenient, affordable and environmentally
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange
The distinctiveness of Indian theatrical tradition in the dramatic cultures of the world—its antiquity as well as its aesthetic appeal—is more or less indisputable today. The roots of theatre in India are ancient and deep-seated. Theatrical expression of some kind or the other has been since primitive and mythic times, an integral part of Indian life. Our knowledge about the initial, primitive stage of theatrical activity in India is very meagre. However one can safely say that theatre in India as