
Jane Austen’s Place in Literary History
Jane Austen is known as an 18th century author, a Romantic era’s author, and a Regency author. Her literature has aspects that match the features of all these literary periods. […]
Jane Austen is known as an 18th century author, a Romantic era’s author, and a Regency author. Her literature has aspects that match the features of all these literary periods. […]
Jane Austen used present-day settings and probable characters and actions in her writings. She followed the footsteps of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, and contributed in the rise of novel as a literary genre. […]
Chronologically, Jane Austen belongs in a category with the literary Romantics. She wrote in a period described as experiencing the ‘rise of print culture’ and the ‘rise of the novel’. Yet, for many years, she was seen as out of place in English Romanticism. […]
“Station Eleven” examines art in many forms, through flashbacks and in the present. The novel presents a very different view of the post-apocalyptic landscape than we’re used to. […]
What all apocalyptic stories have in common is a question of whether the survivors can manage to rebuild society as they knew it or even build a better one. The answers vary in different works of fiction. […]
Living in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event isn’t easy. To take us to these specific dystopias, writers use different means to create their worlds. The events that set the stage for an apocalypse affect the aftermath significantly. […]
The total reliance on Feed technology provides distractions rather than solutions. This is a perfect backdrop for a great cyberpunk dystopian narrative. […]
Like other Young Adult, and especially cyberpunk, novels, the dystopia in “Little Brother” is disrupted by a teenaged protagonist who outsmarts the system. […]
Cyberpunk privileges the outsider, or sometimes a group of outsiders, who are usually young and incredibly talented hackers. […]
Margaret Atwood strongly believes in the power of narrative. We write stories and they matter. To Atwood, they matter maybe more than anything else we do since they’re what we leave behind. […]
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