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Journal articles on the topic "Avarice – Fiction"

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Grandy, Christine. "“Avarice” and “Evil Doers”: Profiteers, Politicians, and Popular Fiction in the 1920s." Journal of British Studies 50, no. 3 (July 2011): 667–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/659877.

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Shyamal Ghosh and Dr. N. K. Pandey. "Issue of River and Dam in the Fiction of Arundhati Roy." Creative Launcher 8, no. 3 (June 30, 2023): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2023.8.3.03.

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Arundhati Roy is not only an author but also a committed environmentalist and campaigner for human rights. She is widely credited with revitalising the effort to halt the enormous Narmada Dams project, in particular the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. Besides writing, she has acquired a distinctive place in the mind of people as an activist. Roy shows a propensity to explore environmental issues and the devastation of the ecosystem due to human avarice in her writings. The river has been the lifeline of our society and culture since ancient times, but in recent times it has lost its glorious past, it has become contaminated and in various cases, its natural flow has been obstructed because of dam construction by providing excuses of modernity and progress. The river water is an integral part of our daily lives, as we drink it, use river water in cultivation, wash our clothes in it, and cook with it. River is a means of livelihood to many. Aquatic organisms find their means of survival there. However, the river has suffered a lot as a result of human interference. In her novel, The God of Small Things, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy pens down the horrible condition of the river and unplanned dam construction. This paper uses the lens of river ecology to investigate the symbiotic interaction between humans and other species in river ecosystems.
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Dede Wahyu Pramesti, Shalsadila Meida Putri, Abdul Rozak, and Andi Sutisno. "A Distortion of Eid Al-Fitr Traditions in an Indonesian Short Story." International Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies 4, no. 1 (June 22, 2024): 55–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijcrs.2024.4.1.6.

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This research aims to clarify the inaccuracies in A.A. Navis's short fiction. The study utilizes a descriptive qualitative methodology, employing a mimetic approach and critical reading of the short tale "Tamu Yang Datang Di Hari Lebaran" by A.A. Navis to gather data. The narrative is a reflection of reality in Indonesian culture. Using a mimetic technique, the researcher analyzed the short tale "Tamu Yang Datang Di Hari Lebaran" by A.A. Navis and concluded that there are two types of mimesis. First, A.A. Navis' short narrative "Tamu Yang Datang Di Hari Lebaran" highlights several societal aspects, such as (1) the custom of returning home for Eid, (2) the halal bihalal customs, (3) the avarice of the powerful. Second, the social phenomena in A.A. Navis's short novel "Tamu Yang Datang Di Hari Lebaran" are distorted; they include the interpretation of Eid customs and the moral and social standards of officials who take advantage of their positions. Mimetic theory may, therefore, be used to study the short tale.
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Aricò, Santo L. "A Lawyer's Defense of a Wine Merchant against a Carpenter's Deposition: A Story about Friendship and Betrayal." Law and History Review 17, no. 2 (1999): 365–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/744017.

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In 1770, Antoine-Louis Séguier, the avocat général (king's advocate) of the Parlement of Paris, defended Jean-Baptiste Dubarle, a Parisian wine merchant, against charges of theft, seduction, kidnapping, and adultery initiated by a carpenter, Eustache Chefdeville. For all of the offenses, Chefdeville demanded monetary reparation.The case, summarized in a mémoire, connects the history of family law in France under the ancien régime to the skillful use of lawyerly forensics. But it also relates to literary portrayals of social scapegraces who betray the esteemed values of friendship and gratitude: in fact, this member of Paris's menu peuple emerges from the pages of the case abstract as a dissembling traitor. Séguier's legal brief, viewed as a work of fiction, projects Chefdeville as an ungrateful betrayer who feigns comradery. In Séguier's telling, this disfigured pariah, albeit socially inferior, takes his place next to the deceptive worldlings described in many eighteenth-century novels. Like them, he violates the sacred laws of sincerity, turning himself into a moral pervert. Séguier's mémoire is rich precisely because it demonstrates how a skilled lawyer attempting to win his case adopts the form of a story characterized by all the literary qualities of the day—love, friendship, avarice, and betrayal. It illustrates a classic legal approach and also reads like a novel from beginning to end.
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Ike, Onyeka. "The utilization of literary techniques in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 7, no. 1-2 (April 15, 2020): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v7i1-2.9.

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This research investigates the utilization of literary techniques in two Nigerian historical fictions: Never Again by Flora Nwapa and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. Nwapa and Adichie are two creative writers belonging to two different generations of Nigerian writers. While the former is of the first, the latter is of the third generation. In their two different novels in focus, it is observed that they deployed diverse literary techniques in variegated fashions to achieve the same goal – creating fictional works that deal with the sensitive issues of the Nigerian Civil War. Using new historicism (NH) as its theoretical anchor, this study uses historical-analytic and literary methods to posit that no two creative writers apply literary techniques in an identical manner even when their subject matter is the same. Rather, the deployment of literary tools is usually a function of talent, training, idiosyncrasies, orientation and propensities of a particular author. It is, of course, the patterns of such deployments that create and confer identity and uniqueness to various writers across the globe, such that when a section of the work of a known author is read, his or her name comes to mind. Using New Historicism as a critical searchlight, this paper evaluates compares and contrasts the utilization of literary techniques in the two novels aforementioned. Both writers have utilized literary elements in various ways to foreground and portray the cancerous issues of corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and avarice – the issues that led to the unfortunate and devastating Civil War, and till today continues to limit the progress of Nigeria. Keywords: Literary techniques, NH, Never Again, Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun
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Bryan, Jimmy L. "Unquestionable Geographies." Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 4 (2018): 593–637. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.4.593.

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From 1810 with the publication of the first charts of the Louisiana Purchase, to 1848 with the celebration of the Mexican cession, leading U.S. cartographers like John Melish, Henry S. Tanner, S. Augustus Mitchell, and others marshaled their empirical and romantic skillsets to engage willfully and consciously in the work of empire-building. Instead of presenting static and impartial displays of geographic information, they were self-conscious and unashamed visionaries who manipulated and sometimes invented geographies, outlining the “sketchy” places with aggressive borders and labels and filling in the “silences” with make-believe topographies and hydrographies. They professed the revelation of natural designs that forecasted grand and prosperous futures. As powerful, yet fictive, expressions of dominion, maps significantly impacted the way many Americans viewed their national destiny, enticed by the geographic vocabularies that masked their chauvinisms and avarice by normalizing their territorial ambitions as natural, providential, and inevitable.
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Tarnogórska, Maria. "Dowcipy o góralach a tzw. duch góralszczyzny." Góry, Literatura, Kultura 10 (May 25, 2017): 209–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2084-4107.10.18.

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Highlander jokes and so-called spirit of the highlandThe aim of this article is to examine the authenticity of popular ‘highlanders’ jokes’ published in many anthologies of humour as well as in separate dedicated volumes often termed ‘highland­ers’ humour’ thus suggesting folkloristic sources of the texts. The analysis of representative ex­amples shows that most jokes are thoroughly fictive constructions profiled as ethnic jokes without authentic origins. The anonymous sources of these jokes create them with two main qualities: 1. the tendency to use puns, black humour or even nonsense humour which contrasts with the rather realistic humour of folkloristic texts; 2. incorporating elements of modern reality such as technical gadgets comically incongruous in the context of the stereotypical image of highlanders’ culture. A true portrait of highlander culture, a quality of authentic folklore, is replaced by purely nominal ethnic characteristics, often added to primarily non- ethnic jokes, implying that the ethnic joke is more funny than the same joke without such an ethnic characteristic for instance, a joke about Scottish avarice is deemed more funny than the same joke about a non-descript miser.
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Delay, Katherine. "Dune: Desert Planet." Earth Common Journal 2, no. 1 (September 29, 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.31542/j.ecj.69.

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This article is a review of the science fiction classic Dune, by Frank Herbert, and its environmental message. By designing an entirely new universe for his masterpiece, Herbert enables the reader to draw perspective about the world of 20th, and 21st, century Earth, and where humanity is possibly headed. Dune, however, is more than just a space opera, it is an enduring message about the struggle between conservation and human avarice.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Avarice – Fiction"

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De, Jager Thea Laurette. "The poesis of decay : a painter's response to the dystopian aesthetic." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26241.

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This study focuses on the investigation and deconstruction of the phenomena of the South African dystopian society, as reflected in the novels of Lauren Beukes and films by Neill Blomkamp. The characteristics and signifiers of a uniquely South African dystopian society are established and investigated through a posthuman lens. The theoretical framework of this study is principally concerned with the critical posthuman writings of Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway and, to a lesser extent, Cary Wolfe. Feminism and post-colonialism, and their influences on posthuman theory, are applied as the secondary theoretical framework, in this study. The study is practice led, with the study of the literature serving as mutually informative to the execution of a body of work centred on the dystopian theme. The paintings are intended to be metonyms for the wide range of manifestations of social decline evident in contemporary South African narratives.
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Books on the topic "Avarice – Fiction"

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Burgh, Anita. Avarice. London: Orion, 2000.

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Burgh, Anita. Avarice. London: Orion, 1998.

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Burgh, Anita. Avarice. London: Macmillan, 1994.

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Coleridge, Nicholas. Pride and avarice. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Coleridge, Nicholas. Pride and avarice. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Roe, Caroline. An antidote for avarice. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999.

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Levin, Michael Graubart. Alive and kicking. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

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Byrnes, Michael. Harvest of greed. Melbourne: D Books, 2013.

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Chŏng, Yŏn-hŭi. Ttangkkŭt ŭi tal. Sŏul-si [Seoul, South Korea]: Kaemi, 2021.

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Waweru, P. M. Jackie the ravenous pest. Nairobi: Choro Publishers, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Avarice – Fiction"

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Schulman, Bruce J. "Missiles and Magnolias." In From Cotton Belt To Sunbelt, 135–73. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195057034.003.0006.

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Abstract “Our economy is no longer agricultural,” William Faulkner observed in 1956. “Our economy is the Federal Government.” In characteristic fashion, Faulkner likened the South’s surrender of its pastoral heritage to the Edenic Fall. The South, he contended, had “sold state’s rights” during the Depression in return for the fruits of the New Deal. In Faulkner’s conception, the historical experience of his native land after 1945 recapitulated the path of his characters, the denizens of fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Southern leaders, motivated by pride and avarice, reenacted the drama of the Original Sin. They exchanged the richness of the region’s land and people for the foolish promise of progress.
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