Speaking about the theme and the structure. Speaking about the author and some aspects of his literary work

Speaking about the author and some aspects of his literary work

1) D.H. Lawrence’s view of the writer’s purpose was very different: he felt it was the novelist’s job to show how an individual’s view of his own personality was often affected by conventions of language, family and religion, and to show how people and their relationships with each other were always changing and moving. He took the form of the traditional novel and made it wider and deeper.

2) The writer combines the traditional skills of versification with a sharply

accurate, at times, visionary use of imagery and language.

3) This writer’s work displays a tense formal control accurately matched to his sharp and witty idiom, where the prosaic and the surreal frequently interact. Working within a variety of genres, he combines his exposure of the power politics of nationality and gender with his sense of the imaginative possibilities within fictional and poetic language.

4) She is one of the leading writers to be concerned about the position of women in modern Africa, but has also castigated all forms of corruption and chauvinism.

5) The writer cloaks his ridicule, irony and mockery.

Speaking about the theme and the structure

6) Physical and mental health are only the starting point of this writer’s study, which digresses continually to encompass topics such as politics and religion, its pages abounding in quotations from wide-ranging sources including the Bible, the classics and learned works by contemporaries. The style is both comic and serious in flavor, lively as well as informed.

7) The writer keeps to the conventional standards as to the plot.

8) The stories are told almost completely through conversation, and the picture of family life is one where the cruel and deceitful win, while the weak and honest lose.

9) The general slant of the text is satirical, sometimes humorous and even pathetic.

10) The story (book) is finally organized, the narrative power unflagging, the arguments irresistibly persuasive and the viewpoint elegantly detached.

2. Analyze the following:

1) “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (by James Joyce) …“The bell rang and then the classes began to file out of the rooms and along the corridors towards the refectory. He sat looking at the two prints of butter on his plate but could not eat the damp bread. The tablecloth was damp and limp. But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girl with a white apron, poured into his cup. He wondered whether the scullion's apron was damp too or whether all white things were cold and damp. Nasty Roche and Saurin drank cocoa that their people sent them in tins. They said they could not drink the tea; that it was hogwash. Their fathers were magistrates, the fellows said.” 2) “Regeneration” (by P. Barker) …“Simply by being there, by being that inconsequential, infinitely powerful creature: a pretty girl, she had made everything worse. Her sense of her own helplessness, her being forced to play the role of Medusa when she meant no harm, merged with the anger she was beginning to feel at their being hidden away like that.”

3) “ A Bruise upon a Bruise” (by G. Swift “Waterland”)

…“The sun was still low, glinting on the river. Above the fields, larks were twittering in a milky-blue sky. All over the globe, at this very hour, a war was being fought. Our troops were pushing hard, so we were told, in Sicily; the Russians, also, were pushing. Meanwhile, in the Atlantic… But except for the Lancasters and B24S which favored for their roosts the flat and strategic country of East Anglia, no hint of this universal strife reached us in our Fenland backwater. ”

4) “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (by Truman Capote)

… “Holly said, “What are you doing here?” and her lips were taut as drawn string.

“Why, n-n-nothing, sugar. I’ve been upstairs working with Yunioshi. Christmas stuff for the Baba-Zaar. But you sound vexed, sugar?” She scattered a roundabout smile. “You b-b-boys not vexed at me for butting in on your p-p-party?”

Rusty Trawler tittered. He squeezed her arm, as though to admire her muscle, and asked her if she could use a drink. ”

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