This novel, subtitled " His Masquerade ", has won general acclaim in modern times as a complex and mysterious exploration of issues of fraud and honesty, identity and masquerade, but when it was published, it received reviews ranging from the bewildered to the denunciatory.

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

In this novel about the ill fated exploration by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to discover the Northwest Passage.

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of biofilm formation has facilitated the exploration of novel strategies to control bacterial biofilms.

The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words ( by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other ) or by images ( the tarot cards — considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations ).

John L. Sullivan ( Joel McCrea ), a popular young Hollywood director fresh from a string of very profitable, but shallow comedies ( e. g. Ants in Your Plants of 1939 ), tells his studio boss, Mr. Lebrand ( Robert Warwick ), that he is dissatisfied and wants his next project to be a serious exploration of the plight of the downtrodden, to be based on the socially-conscious novel O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Thus it provides an intense, detailed exploration of its subject, providing to some degree both the concentrated focus of the short story and the broad scope of the novel.

* Bruce Chatwin wrote the fiction / non-fiction blended novel, The Songlines in exploration of some important aboriginal concepts.

In both China and Western Europe, the novel gradually became more autobiographical and serious in exploration of social, moral, and philosophical problems.

Set in Mississippi sixty-seven years after the American Civil War ended race-based slavery and twelve years after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled American women to vote, this novel by William Faulkner shows how racism and misogyny can persist ; but its exploration of human prejudices goes well beyond those two.

He has attributed his early interest in underwater exploration to reading the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, living by the ocean in San Diego, and his fascination with the groundbreaking expeditions of the bathyscaphe Trieste.

In addition to directing, he also devoted considerable energy to releasing two albums and publishing a novel, Pink, which was a thinly veiled exploration of his grief over River Phoenix's 1993 death.

* Janet Lewis ' historical novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre ( 1941 ), is a fictional exploration of Bertrande and her motives for her actions.

During this brief period in jail he started working on his first novel, Ecué-Yamba-O, an exploration of Afro-Cuban traditions among the poor of the island.

Earnings from the novel go to the advancement of human exploration of space.

He set out to write a cycle about Fandorin with an exploration of every subgenre of the detective novel in mind, from spies to serial killers.

When the novel was published in May 1972 it appeared somewhat prophetic because of the oil exploration beginning in the Orkney area.

In order to present the tale as an authentic exploration, Poe used a number of the travel journals that proliferated at the time he was writing the novel.

This would be far more difficult to track with physical books, in addition to other common visual novel features such as a large number of save slots and the ability to quickly skip through text that has already been read before to allow greater exploration of the different branching paths.

Her dissertation on Charles Dickens, Figures of Dust: A Reading of Our Mutual Friend, is an exploration of language and identity in the novel, with particular emphasis on Dickens ’ metaphors of fragmentation, his use of pronouns, and their relation to a narrative, dialogical conception of self.

The pieces Ren and Guardian of the Veil revisit the language of the Cremaster Cycle, via a ritualistic exploration of Egyptian symbolism inspired by Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings.

While in some respects it is a ' romantic thriller ', interwoven with intrigue and adventures, the novel is also an exploration of human nature and psychology and court politics.

Her pre-war novel, The Wind Changes ( 1937 ), set in Ireland, anticipates the future works in its " subtle exploration of relationships against a backdrop of war.

Traven's last novel, published in 1960, was Aslan Norval ( so far not translated into English ), the story of an American millionairess, married to an aging businessman and at the same time in love with a young man, who is going to build a canal running across the United States as an alternative for the nuclear arms race and space exploration programs.

Two main topics were of interest: the exploration of the Czech village and the extent to which it remained an oasis of good morals ( Jan Herben, Karel Václav Rais, Alois Mrštík ); and Prague, especially the life of the lower classes ( Ignát Herrman, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod ).

Life sciences, global developments ( e. g. climate change, population growth, environmental pollution ) and the exploration of the universe are just a view of various new topics.

Dowd, who perceives her columns to be an exploration of politics, Hollywood, and gender related topics, often uses popular culture to support and metaphorically enhance her political commentary.

It is an examination of the very nature of matter and reality, covering such topics as spacetime and cosmology, origins and unification, and including an exploration into reality and the imagination.

* Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, covering a large number of topics in scientific exploration and invention.

* Multi-media exploration of San Salvador's, people, plants, sea life, culture and research project topics for visitors to the island.

Third-wave feminists want to transform the traditional notions of sexuality and embrace “ an exploration of women ’ s feelings about sexuality that included vagina-centred topics as diverse as orgasm, birth, and rape .”

In his later years, as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, he and his wife Brenda were known for holding dinner parties in their Palo Alto home, in which they would invite an eclectic mix of guests and lead lively discussions on topics ranging from space exploration to politics, health care, and 20th century music.

Lectures for the general public were also provided of wide interest covering topics ranging from Arctic exploration to Shakespeare and philosophy.

The show focussed on myriad topics, including politics, the war on terror, nuclear proliferation, the UN, African civil wars, American history, space exploration and even Hollywood scandals.

HIJs format allowed for in-depth exploration of topics that were only being superficially covered in the island's dailies, and the paper became a uniquely valuable source of information for island residents.

During these blocks they will have the opportunity to participate in research projects, experiments, problem-based learning simulations, multi-grade level seminars in a wide variety of topics, study groups, theme-based cross-curricular exploration, self-paced guided independent studies, concurrent studies at post-secondary institutions and other non-traditional approaches to the secondary school curriculum.

His exploration of individual horoscopes continues into book IV, the only distinction of content being that subsequent topics relate to material matters and life experiences: what Ptolemy refers to as " external accidentals ".

Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are key topics allowing Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool as well as a science enabler.

He has written on a wide range of topics including the history of computing, the development of algorithms and intelligence, communication systems, space exploration, and the design of water craft.

Weekly public affairs programs focus on a range of topics, from social justice to space exploration.

Science articles cover such topics as cosmology, space exploration, exobiology, research conducted by professional-class observatories, and individual professional astronomers.

The meeting ’ s sessions cover a wide range of topics, including volcanology, planetary exploration, the Earth ’ s internal structure and atmosphere, climate change, and renewable energies.