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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.

story and drama
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
The story of Jonah is a drama between a passive man and an active God.
Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).
By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.
In characteristic fashion this sweeping political-historical drama was followed by It's a Free World a story of one woman's attempt to establish an illegal placement service for migrant workers in London.
New genres of vernacular literature were based on this language, including verse, drama and story forms, such as the qu and sanqu.
In 1987, the story told in Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, a made-for-television movie, formed the basis of a full-fledged drama television series.
Some also use various other forms of communication such as the written word, artwork, drama, narrative story or music.
Big Finish Productions first used the Sontarans for their audio drama Heroes of Sontar-a 2011 Fifth Doctor story.
*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Toole's short story, Million-Dollar Baby, but could not interest the studios in a female boxing drama.
The end sequence plays like music, not drama: It completes the story on an emotional, not a literal, level.
:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.
An episode of the NBC drama Harry's Law used the industry jargon " Franken-bytes " and gave an example of the audio-splicing trick, which is used to force dialogue that is needed for the drama / story / script, but not actually said by the reality characters.
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story " The Wisdom of Eve ", by Mary Orr.
The story of a girl being groomed to be a courtesan by her grandmother made Freed doubt making it as a straight drama would be acceptable to the American censors, so they " cleaned it up " and turned it into a musical.
Another Nights tale with crime fiction elements was " The Hunchback's Tale " story cycle which, unlike " The Three Apples ", was more of a suspenseful comedy and courtroom drama rather than a murder mystery or detective fiction.
A musical drama written in 1989, Grannia, story and lyrics by Thomas A.
In June 2007 the Knock School of Irish Dancing did a dance drama based on Ní Mháille's story.
Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.
It was originally billed as " an everyday story of country folk ", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as " contemporary drama in a rural setting ".
Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.
She is the center of the human drama within the story.
As the story was adapted to include Qur ' ānic material ( Q. 22: 50, Q. 53, Q. 17: 73-74 ) the idea of satanic temptation was claimed to have been added, heightening its inherent drama as well as incorporating additional biblical motifs ( cf.

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