Hannam University Department: English Language and Literature. Degree: Masters of English Language & A ; Literature. Title: The Kite Runner: The novel presents the narrative of a state and people in convulsion. An condensation of a THESIS Presented to Professor Kim Ilgu. the Faculty of the Department of English Language & A ; Literature of the Hannam University in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of English Language & A ; Literature.
By Uttam Mallick Student ID: 20114012 An brief overview of Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner—Stories Views on instruction: Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and doctor. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was 15 old ages old. Khaled Hosseini is the first Afghan-American author to print a work of fiction in English in the United States. The Kite Runner is Hosseini’s foremost novel. and his book has achieved a important sum of success since its publication in 2003-now in its 17th printing with over 1.
4 million transcripts sold-and has repeatedly appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List over the last three old ages. Even though bookshops and libraries have been inundated with literature about Afghanistan and Iraq. none appear to hold achieved the same sum of acknowledgment or success as The Kite Runner. Since the 19th century. critics have called into inquiry the literary virtues of sentimental fiction for its apparently unskilled rhetoric and unauthentic sentiment.
Although the aesthetic intent of sentimental literature has been repeatedly trivialized by literary critics. sentimental imagination. linguistic communication and subjects have been efficaciously utilized by assorted writers in the yesteryear to review controversial societal. historical and political patterns of the times. such as bondage in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin ( 1852 ) . and go on to be efficaciously utilized by modern-day writers. such as perceptual experiences of Afghanistan and its people in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
To finish my concluding thesis. I will utilize books and reviews or published by scholarly diaries every bit good as major and minor newspapers to analyse the popularity of the novel. including its literary strengths and failings. I will seek to utilize my ain cognition and unfavorable judgment about the state and people in convulsion. Some scholarly articles on Afghanistan published shortly after 9/11 will be used to supply a societal and historical context for Hosseini’s novel.
Last. I will utilize both scholarly articles and books to explicate the construct of “sentimentality” and “emotional narrations. ” and their cultural importance. which will assist me farther joint my critical attack to Hosseini’s text. Beginning of Datas: For the research must be my ain thought with some paper secondary informations will be used.
