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The Distant Hours is the third novel by Australian author Kate Morton. [1] The hardback edition was published in the United Kingdom by Pan Macmillan in November 2010, the paperback was published in 2011.
Commonly, distant reading is performed at scale, using a large collection of texts. However, some scholars have adopted the principles of distant reading in the analysis of a small number of texts or an individual text. [6] Distant reading often shares with the Annales school a focus on the analysis of long-term histories and trends.
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]
In this essay, Bakhtin attempts to outline a theory of the novel and its unique properties by comparing it to other literary forms, in particular the epic.Bakhtin sees the novel as capable of achieving much of what other forms cannot, including an ability to engage with contemporary reality, and an ability to re-conceptualize the individual in a complex way that interrogates his subjectivity ...
The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work Mrs Dalloway.Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes in different settings.
Modern Fiction" is an essay by Virginia Woolf. The essay was published in The Times Literary Supplement on 10 April 1919 as "Modern Novels" then revised and published as "Modern Fiction" in The Common Reader (1925). The essay is a criticism of writers and literature from the previous generation.
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
Carys Davies, for The Guardian, referred to the novel as a "thrilling narrative, full of twists and turns". [2] Catherine Taylor, for the Financial Times, praised In the Distance as an "extraordinary epic tale". [5] The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction [1] [6] and the Pulitzer Prize. [7]