'As I Lay Dying' – this immediately perplexing, and traditionally grammatically incorrect statement, serves as the title for one of Faulkner's most intriguing and innovative novels. The title, like the entirety of the novel, experiments with, and challenges traditional litera...

Bartleby The narrative technique used in any literary piece is an important factor. For this paper I will be looking at the narrative technique used in Bartleby the Scrivener and its importance to this literary work. There are different types of narration but the one that is used in Bartleby is ...

Chapter 1, 1st Draught Dissertation The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist is one of Anne Tyler's most acclaimed novels. Published in 1985, in the same year it was awarded by the NBCC or the National Book Critics Circle (a prestigious association of almost seven...

Deciphering Alfred's Masterpiece Bede Jarrett once said that "the mysterious is always attractive. People will follow a veil." In the specified sequence of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, narrative form is integral to the film in order to construct a further understanding and create a m...

Once you get past the initial violent context of the movie, Fight Club, the viewer bears witness to an intriguing narrative about a man with Multiple Personality Disorder. Revolving around three central characters; a nameless narrator (Edward Norton), his alter ego Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and his ...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Oral Structure, point of view and narrative techniques in Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Ok well this isn't really an essay as such it's a an oral that I had to give on Tess, but still it took ages and I guess I could be kind of helpful. -veronica Narrative techniques - Chance a...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is praised and celebrated for many reasons, including for its unique narrative style. It is told by Mr. Lockwood, the current tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who commissions his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him the story of his neighbours at Wuthering Height...

Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl is one of the most important literary works in Persian language. The central theme of the story is an attempt toward the resolution of the writer/narrator's dualistic experiences of the real versus unreal, the sensual against the spiritual and death as opposed to life. ...

Heart of Darkness Humans are all the same. We possess little individuality, and that which we portray is superficial. Everyone is motivated by all the same intentions: greed, the desire to fulfill lustful intentions, the motif that self-preservation is the only necessary means of survival. This i...

Helen Garner, in her short story collection, My Hard Heart, uses a wide variety of different narrative perspectives. Each type of narration is closely linked with, and special to, the story or experience being told. Susan Hosking, describes Garners writing style as an 'ability to refine subject matt...

Textual integrity requires a composer to be constantly aware of all the elements of a work, especially the writers values. Discuss the relationship, textual integrity and values in your understanding and interpretation of Cloudstreet. Textual integrity is important in the construction ...

Tell Tell Heart : Use of Point of View There is a belief that the eyes are windows to the soul. But to some, the soul resides in the heart. In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tell Heart," he also links these two body parts. The story opens with this unnamed narrator telling of how he will kill the ...

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy are both excellent literary works that both deserve equal praise. Hemingway's story is about a regretful, wasted author named Harry who is lying on an African plain dying of gangrene. Ivan, the main ch...

On one level, "A Gentle Creature" is a love story. However, instead of fulfilling romantic ideals, "A Gentle Creature" portrays a battleground. Instead of a tale of mutual happiness through mutual submission, it tells of a power struggle between the narrator and his wife. ...

" The Story Of An Hour" 1. Plot- Josephine tells Mrs. Mallard that her husband has died. Mrs. Mallard stares out a window and realizes the freedom she has gained by becoming a widow. Mrs. Mallard and Josephine go down stairs and see Brently Mallard walk in the door. Mrs. Mallard screams an...

Does the Voice Matter? How important is the voice that tells a story? It seems almost trivial to claim that the same story can change because of the voice telling it to you. Does the voice and point of view of the narrator play a large enough role in a novel to change the attitude of the ...

This is the study of two narrative styles in two different short stories. "ODOUR OF CHRYSENTEMUMS" by D.H Laurence, and "A ROSE FOR EMILY" BY William Faulkner. These two stories have a common trait that is having for principal character a woman; however the way each narrator is ...

Contin Mariangela 428384/LL Faulkner's "A rose for Emily": the narration The narrator in this short story is an omniscent one, endowed with the ability of inner view into the minds of his characters. He echoes the words, thoughts and suspicions of an entire small-town commun...

\"Spotted Horses\" and \"Mule in the Yard\" are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkner\'s work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, \"Spotted Horses\" rises above \"Mule in the Yard\" i...

The World Through Holden Caulfield's EyesWhen writing a novel, the author has the option of using the first or third person narrative. In The Catcher in the Rye, J.K. Salinger creates Holden Caulfield in the first person. As we go from one adventure to the next, we see everything that happens from...

What is narrator? Narrator is the voice the author creates to tell the story. The possible ways of telling a story are many, and more than one way can be worked into a single story. Conventionally, the various narrators that storytellers draw upon can be grouped into four broad groups: the third-p...

Scout is a young girl growing up in Southern Alabama during the 1930s. She narrates the story as an adult looking back on three difficult years of her childhood. It is advantageous to tell the story from Scout's point of view. Scout draws the reader's attention to the way adults treat one...

Halfway between West Egg and New York lies 'The Valley of Ashes' and this is the desolate wasteland, which is also home to the Wilson family. The term desolate is used to describe a place that is depressingly empty and solitary. Fitzgerald includes this fantastic farm to emphasize to the readers, th...

Compare the marriage relationships in The Miller's Tale and Nights in the Gardens of Spain The purpose of Chaucer being the actual narrator is to engage the miller, the fictional narrator to initiate the discussion of marriage. Chaucer knows that the Miller is going to start a string of stor...

One of the most interesting works, not only in this period, is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. In this most unsettling work Bierce portrays the subjectivity of time, how the reader has no true control of time and must rely on the author to convey it. In the story, Peyton Farqu...