It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

* 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.

Even after her death, Marie Antoinette is often considered to be a part of popular culture and a major historical figure, being the subject of several books, films and other forms of media.

The phrase " Let them eat cake " is often attributed to Marie Antoinette.

Jane Seymour, OBE ( born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg ; 15 February 1951 ) is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die ( 1973 ), Somewhere In Time ( 1980 ), East of Eden ( 1982 ), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World ( 1988 ), War and Remembrance ( 1988 ), the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ( 1993 – 1998 ).

The Victorian coupe ( according to legend, designed using a mould of the left breast ( signifying a giving from the heart ) of Marie Antoinette as a birthday present to her husband, Louis XVI ) is not recommended as it disperses the nose and over-oxygenates the wine.

The award is named after Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946.

A full-size model of the " Antoinette Barrel Trainer " is in the foyer of the Airbus Training Centre at Toulouse, France.

There is a story that, like most others regarding the island, lacks adequate archival sources, or any quoted sources at all, which places the priceless jewels of Marie Antoinette ( which are historically missing, save for some specimens in the collections of museums worldwide ) on Oak Island.

The village is the site in 1853 of the first ordination of a woman minister in the United States, Antoinette Brown.

He is pressed to testify against Marie Antoinette ( 14 October ), but he refuses.

He is most notable for correspondence with Marie Antoinette in an attempt to set up a constitutional monarchy and for being one of the founding members of the Feuillants.

* October 15: Queen Marie Antoinette is impeached and convicted for treachery against the country, and for incest with her child The Dauphin, and is condemned to be executed in the Place de la Revolution.

He is famous in history as the alleged lover of Queen Marie Antoinette of France.

The Tony Award for Best Play ( formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre ) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York.

A large Holstein cow named Antoinette is a local landmark.

Even her staunchest defenders concede that Nancy Reagan is more Marie Antoinette than Mother Teresa.

* Antoinette ( Form 2-3 ) and The Sixth Form at St. Clare ' sAntoinette is a French girl who hates sports, and also dislikes Angela.

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An exemplar post-colonial novel is Wide Sargasso Sea ( 1966 ), by Jean Rhys, a predecessor story to Jane Eyre ( 1847 ), by Charlotte Brontë, a literary variety wherein a familiar story is re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, who, within the story and the plot, is a socially oppressed minor character who is renamed and variously exploited.

* Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.

One of the likely catalysts for Antoinette's downfall is the suspicion with which they both begin to view each other, fuelled by the machinations of a supposed relative of Antoinette's, Daniel Cosway ( Boyd ).

The most striking difference between the two novels is that Wide Sargasso Sea transforms Rochester's first wife from Bertha Mason, the infamous " madwoman in the attic ," to the lively yet vulnerable Antoinette Cosway.

The 18th century produced a great number of miniature painters, of whom Richard Cosway ( 1742 – 1821 ) is the most famous.

George Engleheart ( 1750 – 1829 ) painted 4, 900 miniatures, and his work is stronger and more impressive than that of Cosway ; it is often signed E or G. E.

Richard Cosway painted an oil portrait of Shipley, and there is also a portrait, drawn and engraved by William Hincks, in the National Portrait Gallery ( London ).

The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a semi-fictional account of Thomas Jefferson's tenure as the Ambassador of the United States to France prior to his Presidency, and his alleged relationships with artist Maria Cosway and slave Sally Hemings.

* In Double Sin Mary Durrant speaks of the miniatures she is transporting as being by Cosway.

This is a reference to Richard Cosway ( 1742 – 1821 ), one of the most successful practitioners of that art of the Georgian era.