A Web site called cheatbooks.com offers literary guides from six brand names, including Bloom's Reviews, written under the direction of Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and a guru of Great Books, and new, updated CliffsNotes, which have been redesigned for a microwave age, with less dense type and catchy icons to alert readers to themes, character insights and literary devices.
Recurring elements include plot themes, character names, and game mechanics.
Each page links to Times articles past and present that fit with the themes, characters, settings and ideas of works by authors from Shakespeare to Salinger.
The notes scribbled on them are the building blocks she uses to develop the themes, characters, scenes and structures of her books.
This spontaneity and immediacy of feeling coexists with a continual, slightly modified repetition of themes, characters, and symbols that express Lawrence's own evolving artistic vision and thought.
But that, it becomes clear, is the power of this show: its themes, characters and story are as immersive as a great novel.
Themes, characters and images recur in different configurations, as in a complex musical work; characters from earlier Mitchell books make guest appearances; there are sly references to Mitchell's literary reputation, as well as to the works of other writers.
If you're like me, you'll take as much pleasure from words as from themes, characters or plot – the sound of them, their appearance on the page, the musicality of a piece, how it chimes on your inner ear.
At home, students keep a television diary for two weeks (in order to be able to see more than one episode of the same show), recording the shows they watch, their themes, characters, and other aspects of the shows.
Realities that are evident in the tropes, themes, characters and concerns of blockbuster movies.
The lawsuit claims that the plots, themes, characters and situations in the Barbershop movies bear an overwhelming resemblance to those of "Scissors," which toured the United States from 1998-2001.
