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Paper 2, Prose and Paper 1, Drama: Gothic Genre
Gothic literature is characterized by elements of horror, mystery, and the supernatural, typically set in dark, decaying
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Paper 2, Prose and Paper 1, Drama: Gothic Genre
Pastoral literature presents an idealized vision of rural life and nature, typically contrasting this idyllic world with
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Paper 2, Prose; Paper 3, Poetry: Augustan Literature
Augustan literature refers to works from the late 17th and early 18th centuries emphasizing classical models, wit, and r
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Paper 2, Prose; Paper 3, Poetry: Augustan Literature
Georgian literature spans the reigns of the Georges and encompasses the transition from Augustan neoclassicism to Romant
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Narrative perspective refers to the narrator's position, relationship to the story, and access to information. The three
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Free indirect discourse (sometimes called free indirect style) presents a character's thoughts or speech within the narr
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Stream of consciousness is a modernist narrative technique that attempts to portray the actual mental processes of a cha
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Dystopian fiction presents an imaginary future or alternative society characterized by oppression, totalitarianism, envi
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
The picaresque is a narrative genre originating in Spanish literature, featuring a picaro—a clever rogue of low social s
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
The Bildungsroman (German: 'novel of formation') is a narrative genre that traces the protagonist's intellectual, moral,
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
An epistolary novel is constructed from written documents—primarily letters—that reveal plot, character, and theme throu
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
An omniscient narrator possesses unlimited knowledge of the narrative world and can reveal characters' internal thoughts
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
An unreliable narrator is one whose version of events cannot be trusted as fully accurate due to psychological instabili
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
A frame narrative embeds one story within another, creating layers of narration. The outer frame provides perspective, a
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Gothic conventions are repeated devices and situations in Gothic fiction, creating atmosphere of fear, mystery, and psyc
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
A bildungsroman is a novel centered on the protagonist's development from youth to maturity, emphasizing psychological o
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Postmodern narrative techniques destabilize conventional storytelling, foregrounding the constructedness of narrative an
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Paper 2, Prose: Narrative Perspective
Diaspora literature explores experiences of displacement, exile, migration, and cultural hybridity, examining how commun
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