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Poetic justice describes an obligation of the dramatic poet, along with philosophers and priests, to see that their work promotes moral behavior. [10] 18th-century French dramatic style honored that obligation with the use of hamartia as a vice to be punished [10] [11] Phèdre, Racine's adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus, is an example of French Neoclassical use of hamartia as a means of ...
Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan.Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing.
This list was published in a book of the same name, which contains extended explanations and examples. The original French-language book was written in 1895. [3] An English translation was published in 1916 and continues to be reprinted. The list was popularized as an aid for writers, but is also used by dramatists, storytellers and others ...
Whether you are or always have been a bookworm or stopped reading books at 16 years old, you should know all these big names in this literature trivia. From Dickens to Hemingway, this trivia has ...
Hoover has written four book series. You can read one or all of the series, in any sequence. The Slammed Trilogy. The Hopeless Saga. The Maybe Trilogy I. It Ends (and Starts) With Us. According to ...
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
A minor character flaw is an imperfection which serves to distinguish the character in the mind of the reader / viewer / player / listener, making them memorable and individual, but otherwise does not affect the story in any way.
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