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Jane Austen “Pride and prejudice” Summary Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the story's setting is characteristically

10th extract Chapter 31 is the last chapter of the novel and takes place on the day jefferson was due to be executed. Grant is at the school in the quarter. He has told all the children to go home early to eat, to come back to school, and to stay on their knees in the schoolroom until they hear the news that Jefferson has finally gone to the electric chair. Grant waits outside. He is full of doubts about both his relationship with Jefferson and his own worth: Page 250 “Why wasn’t I there (at the

not always be a positive thing and fear isn’t necessary a negative emotion. These are the questions we will attempt to answer using « The Castle of Otranto » as a frame. Death and wounds, whether physical or psychological, are omnipresent in the novel, a supernatural and mysterious universe is powerful and active, and sexuality is also present, sometimes in its worst version: incest. Men and women are caricatures of themselves, a tyrannical evil father, a submissive weak and crying wife, young

deeply. In Chapter 11, when Jefferson demonstrates how a hog eats, Grant is horrified at Jefferson’s behavior; he realizes how deeply the inhumane treatment that Jefferson has received has affected his psyche. As mentioned in the Introduction to the Novel section of this Note, Jefferson’s redemption and transformation are intertwined with Grant’s retaining and reasserting his manhood. Consequently, when Grant witnesses Jefferson’s humiliation, he realizes that his own manhood is threatened by this humiliation

She was dubbed "Main Street of America" ​​(Great Street of America), or "Mother Road" after the words of the writer John Steinbeck in his book the Grapes of Wrath. In this novel, Steinbeck dedicate a chapter to the Road 66. This road has a great place in the novel, and also in the film whiche was based on the famous novel. Indeed, The Joad borrow Route 66 to go west, when the Great Depression drove them away, as other Oakies.Their destination were The "green valleys of California," true Promised

"On the Road" is a novel that makes the reader want to go out there, seize the day, and live, live, live! Jack Kerouac, creator of the "beat generation" best sums up his philosophy as "everything belongs to me because i am poor". The failure of ideology and of the American Dream in the 1960s gave young dreamers who were eager to live just one way out: the road.    Kerouac presents Sal Paradise, a young and innocent writer, and Dean Moriarty, a crazy youth "tremendously excited with life" racing

struggle within the Chicago chapter of the John Reed Club led to the dissolution of the club's leadership; Wright was told he had the support of the club's party members if he was willing to join the party.[3] By 1935, Wright had completed his first novel, Cesspool, published as Lawd Today (1963), and in January 1936 his story "Big Boy Leaves Home" was accepted for publication in New Caravan. In February, Wright began working with the National Negro Congress, and in April he chaired the South Side Writers'

Oxford Reference, 2012. [en ligne]. Disponible sur : http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195047714.001 .0001/acref-9780195047714. (Consulté le 1er juillet 2015). Consultable en ligne à la bibliothèque HAWTHORN Jeremy, Studying the novel, London ; New York : Arnold Oxford University Press, 2005, VI-218 p. 820.7 HAW HUGHES Terence, L’analyse textuelle en anglais : narrative theory, textual practice, Paris : A. Colin, 2005, VII-222 p. (Collection Lettres supérieures). 820.7 HUG -5-

precisely in the realistic novel. Indeed, he refuses the realism in art, which he makes responsible of an impoverishment of the language. In a consequence of this, it engenders, some ‘ridiculous books’ where ‘the law of the lowest common denominator’. So, for Breton, the realistic novel cultivates the taste for the detail where ‘each person adds his personal little ‘‘observation’’ and take pleasure in doing descriptions. The author pursues his lawsuit against the realistic novel by exploiting Paul Valery's

corpus of Cliff’s work is devoted to uncovering the history of interculturation that began with the Western European New World Discovery and continues to transform the cultural landscapes of countries like the United States and Great Britain. Cliff’s novels, in particular, mark the evolution in her thinking about the possibility of a coherent national culture, and the purpose of this thesis is to highlight the ways in which the theories of creolization set forth in Abeng (1985), No Telephone to Heaven