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Formulate an argument that examines the ways in which authorial voice is translated into an adaptation.

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    Formulate an argument that examines the ways in which authorial voice is translated into an adaptation.

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  • In depth assessment of how Peter Shaffer's play, Amadeus has been translated into film and how the authorial voice translates from stage to screen.
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Essay discussing ideas of masculinity and emotion in The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises. Essay discussing ideas of masculinity and emotion in The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises.

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    Essay discussing ideas of masculinity and emotion in The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises.

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  • Steinbeck and Hemingway both explore how masculinity can affect, and be affected by emotions. In The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for example, Steinbeck considers how masculinity can be strengthened by a man’s refusal to break down. Conversely, in The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway explores how emotional breakdown can occur as a consequence of emasculation. Whereas Steinbeck upholds traditional masculine values and a demonstration of keeping ones emotions in check, Hemingway envisages a renewed s...
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The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement? The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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    The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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  • In early crime narratives a tension exists between the intended disciplinary function and the entertainment value demanded by their status as commodities. The Ordinary Accounts and the criminal broadsides, for example, acted as an indirect form of state-controlled surveillance. This ideological policing, however, is balanced against the commercial obligation to appeal to a wide readership. Indeed, the sensational nature of early crime narratives arguably undermines their disciplinary purpose of ...
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‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz. ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz.

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    ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz.

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  • Toni Morrison’s fiction is preoccupied with the persistence of the past. Indeed, in Beloved (1987) and Jazz (1992) the past continually resurfaces in the present. In Beloved, for example, Sethe is haunted by her past in the form of her departed daughter. Whereas in Jazz, the past is tragically repeated in the lives of Joe and Violet Trace. In both texts, Morrison’s characters must confront their past in order to move on. Accordingly, their experiences demonstrate Morrison’s ‘concern to b...
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‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A ‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A

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    ‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A

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  • Postmodern American fiction responds to the economic and social changes that occurred in America, and the globalised world, post-World War Two. This altered world required innovative modes of representation that could reflect the new cultural sensibility of the authors. Auster and DeLillo, for example, are part of this postmodern movement of formal innovation. The hallmarks of literary postmodernism frame The New York Trilogy (1986) and Cosmopolis (2003). Indeed, by evaluating the concept of the...
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To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective? To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective?

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    To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective?

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  • Notes looking at the way in which magical realist texts are feminist in their approach. Explores the core themes of: - The use of spirits, ghosts and haunted spaces - Story telling as survival - Gender and the decolonisation of language
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A close critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnett 43 A close critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnett 43

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    A close critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnett 43

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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 is principally a poem about the intense love and compassion a woman feels for her husband. The poem is taken from a collection of sonnets, entitled Sonnets from the Portuguese, which trace the interlude between 1945, when Elizabeth met her partner Robert Browning, to 1846, when they were married. Browning lived and wrote during the Victorian era, a time of major societal and economical change. This is reflected in her work, which draws on religious, polit...
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Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic

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    Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic

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  • Many modern dramas feature an unconventional couple. From Kane’s coupling of Hippolytus and Phaedra, to Parks’s pairing of Booth and Lincoln, playwrights use the unconventional couple as a device to explore the different thematic interests of their plays. In The Homecoming (1965), for example, Pinter dramatises the unconventional relationships formed between Max, his sons, and Teddy’s wife. Suddenly Last Summer (1958), however, centres on the potentially incestuous couplings of Mrs Venable...
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Summary of Miller's play, A View From The Bridge Summary of Miller's play, A View From The Bridge

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    Summary of Miller's play, A View From The Bridge

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  • Summary of Arthur Miller's play, A View From The Bridge. Exploration of: - Eddie Carbone - Alfieri - Dramatic techniques used (language, symbolism)
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War and Progress - Waterland and Austerlitz. Notes and Essay

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    War and Progress - Waterland and Austerlitz. Notes and Essay

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  • Notes and essay covering war and progress as depicted in Graham Swift's Waterland and in Sebald's Austerlitz.
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