Elements of Fiction in Joyce and Faulkner

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This paper examines the use of three fictive elements--setting, characterization and point-of-view--in Joyce's 'Eveline' and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning'. The paper explores the importance of these literary devices in making the works in question more resonant with the reader and notes that there are actually excepting, of course, the obvious differences in subject matter many more similarities than differences between the two works. The writer concludes that in the end, each story is as much a marvelously-constructed bit of literature as it is a work of imagination.

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"Both Faulkner and Joyce were brilliant story-tellers who knew how to use fictive elements to full effect. The following paper will explore three fictive elements - setting, character and point-of-view - as they are employed by both writers. In particular, the paper will review Joyce's "Eveline" and Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and argue that the differences between the two works begin and effectively end with their subject matter; beyond that, their use of literary technique is arrestingly similar. With that in mind, it is to a discussion of these issues that we now turn. As mentioned above, Joyce's "Eveline" uses three elements of fiction - setting, character and point-of-view - especially well."

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