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Point of View
Point of View Every Story has a Moral A story that we tell is told from a certain point of view which means a certain viewing point, a particular attitude or way of…
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Types of Criticism
* Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present) * Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present) * Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present) * Marxist Criticism (1930s-present) * Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present) * Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present) * Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)…
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A Great Book Proposal
Writing a Great Book Proposal Book proposals are needed for nonfiction. After your book idea has settled firmly in your mind and after you’ve got down to the basics; the structure, the chapters,…
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Authors Know your Publishers
Authors know your publishers before you form opinions about them. When you take the risk of publishing something that you have written, you open yourself to a number of possibilities. You could begin…
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Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson Book author: Adam Roberts Fredric Jameson has been called ‘probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today’. He has an extraordinary range of analysis, which takes in everything from…
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Paul Ricoeur
PA U L R I C O E U R Author: Karl Simms Paul Ricoeur is one of the most important critical thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. His unique ‘theory of…
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Jean Baudrillard
Baudrillard Author: Richard J Lane The dominance of Hegel in postwar France led initially to the prevalence of Marxism and existentialism. Hyppolite, who translated Hegel, was also the teacher of some of the…
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Writing a Play and a Novel
Writing a Play and writing a Novel is Different Writing a play and a novel are two different ball games. A playwright need not be a good novelist and vice versa. Whereas the…
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Making Characters Memorable
Making Characters Memorable One of the acid tests of a fiction writer is to make characters memorable. They should not merely be puppets but should have the rarer merit to come alive in…