title: the sense of an ending
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• Topic: The sense of an Ending: Title
• Paper no.• Sub. The New Literature• Name: Jadeja Kashmiraba
G.• Roll no. 10• Std. M.A.-2 Sem.-4• Submitted by: Dept of English M.K. Bhavnagar University• Year: 2013-2014
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Introduction
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About Novel
“The Stories we tell about ourselves serve
as consolatory structures, falsifying origins and ends to
grant order and meaning to the which
has none”.
-Frank Kermonde
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Ambiguity of title
Title invites multiple interpretation
Purposeful ambiguity
Typical of Barne’s lucid but malty layered
Corrosive relationship with Veronica
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Plot
1 Fine book2 SKILLFULLY PLOTTED3 Boldly conceived4 Questions of ageing and memory 5 Realistic Condition6 Peripetiea
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“At some very low level we shall share certain fictions about time
and they testify to the continuity of what is called human nature”
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BORROWED TITLE
“Studies in the Theory of Fiction”
Through thwarted love like in ‘Wuthering Heights’
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Some Interesting Critical observations
“It’a book about history and how we recall events”
-Robin Leggett “Plot is not the main point, character and life are
Barne facus” - Whispering Gums “It’s a book about history and how we recall
events” - Anita Brookner
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Main Object
Truths
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Sense of the World
Crisis
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No beginningAnd
No End
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Narration
Thriller
Conclusion
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