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Writing Novel Tips: Jane Austen’s Vision
Jane Austen’s work isn’t just a series of writing novel tips, for what she wrote about is but the essence of human nature that we humans try to understand and live by. Continue reading
Psycho-Narration and Indirect Free Speech: Jane Austen
Considering that Northanger Abbey was the first novel that Jane Austen wrote, and when she was only twenty-four years old, one might consider that the literary device of IFS, so widely used today, was indeed invented by her. In later novels, such as Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, as a more mature writer, masters the technique throughout the novel. Continue reading
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, and Rhetoric
Jane Austen wasn’t just your ordinary hack writer. She was a student of rhetoric. Continue reading
Writing Fiction: Repetition
Contrary to what English teachers mark in students papers —word already used, you are repeating yourself, duplicated word— repetition, when handled well, can be an effective tool for writing fiction. Continue reading
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Jane Austen and the USA’s Constitution
Jane Austen’s novel Emma depicts the British social system of hierarchies and inequalities, where titles of nobility and the landed gentry are the regents of the majority of the population. The founding fathers didn’t want such a detestable caste system and so wrote it into our Constitution. Continue reading
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