Humour Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

It is a million dollar question. What makes a good piece of literature? What makes a memorable piece of music? The question applies to every medium of art in factwhat makes the work of a human worth seeing, worth reading, listening, feeling or watching, studying. And the answer too is simple enough. Any work of art that conveys an idea in its purity and freshness no matter where the looking glass is aimed at, from whichever perspective, is worthy of note. Literature can transmit ideas from ages past, to demographics wide, mould itself into fashions and traditions and yet mean something different to ...

Given the full title of this novel: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the reader is lured into making an assumption that the novel will consist solely of a collection of letters, notes, postcards, diaries and meeting minutes but in reality, the novel is initially more preoccupied by the character of Boz trying to organise the papers before the narrative eventually gives way to an omniscient third-person narrator who forgets about the papers and prefers, instead, to focus on the current events. This is Dickens’ first novel and given the complexities of its narrative, it is possible to view ...

Introduction

Almost Maine is a wonderful heartfelt play by New York playwright John Cariani about the extraordinary tales of love that take place in the town of Almost, Maine. The assertion of this play is that all of these stories across the town take place at the stroke of 9:00 with the northern lights illuminating the slightly surreal, cold and northern night. John Cariani throws magical realism to the bittersweet love scenes in his play with original, sentimental and ultimately pleasant entertainment. Most of the characters in the play are eccentric, but all of them fit well into the small and ...