This article demonstrates how Kurt Vonnegut experiments with the narrative structure of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The study focuses on Vonnegut’s experimentation which assents to postmodern innovative virtuosity. On the outset of postmodernism, two critical issues have been raised. That is, the literature of exhaustion and the literature of replenishment dominating modern literature. Accordingly, this study explores Vonnegut’s critique of literary exhaustion prevailing modernism’s exhausted
Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), as the title suggests, is a memoir, which portrays the individual experiences and personal lives of the authoress and her students in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution 1979. In addition, as the subtitle suggests, Nafisi’s work constructs this personal memoir using various fictional texts such as Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Daisy Miller. Through the act of reading the above mentioned fictional texts, the individuals
imagining a narrative like fiction films, documentaries find real narratives, ones that come from the world everyone resides in. They can focus on current events, past ones, or both, any one can be formed to shape the narrative of a documentary. While a narrative is important to any piece of film, when it comes to this genre, making a statement and informing those who watch it is essential. Viewers leave a documentary with a new thought provoking opinion on the subject filmed. The Life and Times of
the factual events with the fictional, he has set new and interesting trends of writing historical fiction, in the literary world. He is passionate about his research and creative writing. He skillfully employs poetic language to uncover the history of the Noongar community in the form of stories. All this aspect of Scott’s writing has increased readers interest. As John Fielder writes: Scott’s writing appeals to readers interested in narratives that explore different ways of story telling and texts
experimental in technique and narrative’ (2013: 23). Hayward also outlines art cinema as ‘Second Cinema (European art cinema and the cinema of the auteurs)’ (Hayward 2013: 383), which incorporates various issues that were faced by post-war European countries. Although art cinemas share origins from the German Expressionism and Italian Neo-Realism through a historical perspective, these films started being prominent from the late-1950s, which was when the French Nouvelle Vague (New
Identity is the form in which the innate personality of an individual is revealed leading to perception and interpretation of a fictive self, imperative to human construction and function. When this notion is challenged it can result in a personal struggle leading to a loss of autonomy. The 1997 film noir ‘Gattaca’ explicitly challenges the notion of identity through the exploration of conceptions of identity and its interpretation, creating a provocation of the conflicting notions of identity itself
The ever-increasing role of digital media in our daily life has encouraged the exploration of video games within literature and media studies. The approach towards this technological form of narration is exceedingly evolving among scholars, because it poses emerging challenging narratological methodologies in the field. In narratology, theories that commenced developing centuries ago through written texts, progressed in the last decades to visual media, and are recently being applied to transmedia
I have notice people really caring about the characters wellbeing and life . This is the reason why television is so addictive, being able to live in a show with monsters. The audience is caring about a monster that kills people for a living. Isolating themselves from the ordinary life and getting lost in a dark world. In the book mediated by de zengotita proposes an idea how media shapes your world and the way you witness life. media is basically television . People spent 34 hour in a week in front
The narrative I analyzed is the intriguing article by Vishavjit Singh called “Captain America in a Turban”. Vishavjit Singh is “the first turbaned and bearded editorial cartoonist in the United States.” (Singh 6) He also is a software analyst and he creates cartoons about Sikh. A Sikh is any follower of the religion Sikhism. Sikhism is a religion founded years ago and it preaches devotion and remembrance of God, truthful living, equality of mankind and it denounces superstitions and blind rituals
Now a day’s ‘aging’ has become an excessively discussed subject especially in European world. Aging is a very crucial topic to define. Basically from general point of view, human being grow old physically (i.e. chronological aging) and psychologically. Becoming, physically old means loss in physical strength, falling senses and weak memory. An elderly person may find difficulty in doing day to day activities and sometime even in sitting and walking. . Besides, as a person grow old chronologically