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From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Gelley examines the variety of narrative structures simultaneously at play in Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, noting that the novel defies neat classification in this regard. Gelley...
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From: Essays on Canadian Writing[(essay date Spring 1984) New is a Canadian educator, essayist, editor, and critic. In the following essay, he discusses the theoretical structure and narrative framing devices commonly used by Frame in her writing.]...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Rip Van Winkle" may be the most important short story ever written. Though the text is routinely misread (books seldom reprint the story as Irving wrote it) and though the story's comic tone tends to deflect serious...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.'' The opening sentence of L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, with its wistful cadences and sense of alienation from an earlier self, expresses the view of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionChekhov and Maupassant, widely acclaimed as the two most important influences on the modern short story, brought to the genre two very different talents. If Chekhov is the master of mood and atmosphere, then Maupassant...
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From: John Gardner: Critical PerspectivesWhen one stands back to consider the shape of John Gardner's works as a whole, certain recurring “obsessive metaphors” or polysemous “figures” (in the terminology of Charles Mauron and the Russian Formalists) force...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionThough Rudyard Kipling wrote Kim, arguably the greatest novel of India by a non-Indian writer, it is as a writer of short fiction that he is best remembered. Of all Kipling's stories, perhaps the most famous, and most...
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From:Novels for Students[Donna Woodford is a doctoral candidate at Washington University and has written for a wide variety of academic journals and educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses how the dream motif in The Women...