The loneliness of the long distance runner by alan sillitoe ; summary and analysis
Summary : The works of Alan Sillitoe are preoccupied with man's struggle to attain personal identity in an increasingly impersonal world. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959) depicts the life of a 17-year-old inmate named Smith in an English Borstal, reform school. The story unfolds in a first-person point of view. He exhibits the &quo…
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Psychoanalytic Theory for beginners
"There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face" - Macbeth (Duncan) A form of literary theory which makes use of the techniques of psychoanalysis, it is a theory about human mind. Psychoanalytic concepts are prevalent in our everyday life. It came into being during the 1920s. This form of literary theory can be understood as emerg…
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Dream children : a reverie by Charles Lamb Summary and Analysis
Charles Lamb Charles Lamb was popularly known as the prince of English essayists. His essays formulate a special aura that the readers emotionally involve in. It evokes our central emotions like laughter and sorrow. One can find out a strange mixture of humor and pathos in his writings. His essays are fascinating, captivating, charming and he…
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Finest first lines from novels: for NTA NET and SET aspirants.
It was love at first sight. —Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961) You better not never tell no body but God. —Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Time is not a line but a dimensio n, like the dimensions of space. — Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988) This is the saddest story I ha ve ever heard. —Ford Madox Ford, The Good So…
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