Literary themes Flashcards
Often one’s identity is formed from a combination of these many different identities.
Struggle for Identity or Purposes
The literature of war takes a wide variety of approaches in its efforts to comprehend the war experience and encompasses scholarship on a number of genres, including poetry, drama, short stories, novels, journals, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and letters.
EFFECTS OF WAR, TERRORISM AND OTHER SOCIAL EVILS
one of the most popular themes in fiction. Central to the disaster tradition are stories of vast biosphere changes which drastically affect human life.
A NATURAL OR MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE
expressive literary pieces written in first person that center on a particular event in the author’s life and may contain vivid description as well as personal commentary and observations
PERSONALIZED NARRATIVE
These plot devices were often incorporated into tales about humanity’s future or alien races on other worlds
EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY
It is an economic system in which human beings have to undergo a series of events. It deals with social, political, educational, cultural and economic changes.
EFFECTS OF CAPITALISM
Often contemporary literature explores the notion of multiplicities of truth and acknowledges that history is filtered through human perspective and experience.
MEMORY AND HISTORY
Not only does it imply that every writer with a migration background automatically addresses migration in his or her work, but it also suggests that non-migrant, and even second-generation migrant writers are unable to do so. It embraces all literature written in the age of migration, addresses migration thematically and, in some cases, stylistically.
THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE FROM ONE PLACE TO THE OTHER