FUNCTIONAL STYLISTICS Functional stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies functional varieties of the literary language determined by specific spheres and aims of communication. In modern society every person constantly finds himself in regularly recurring situations typical of the given culture‚ in which he has to play a definite social role‚ i.e. to behave according to norms accepted in the given society for such situations. One of the manifestations of a social role of
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John Milton was an English poet‚ polemicist‚ a scholarly man of letters‚ and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. Wikipedia Born: December 9‚ 1608‚ Cheapside‚ United Kingdom Died: November 8‚ 1674‚ Chalfont St Giles‚ United Kingdom Full name: John Milton Parents: John Milton Plays: Samson Agonistes THE Age of Dryden” seems an expression as appropriate as any description of a literary period by the name of a single writer can be‚ and yet
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Roidis‚ G. Vizyinos 5.2 1880s Generation or New Athenian School 5.3 C. Cavafy 5.4 Neo-romanticism or Neosymbolism 5.5 N. Kazantzakis 5.6 K. Varnalis‚ A. Sikelianos 6 20th century literature (1930-1981) 6.1 1930s Generation (‘30) 6.1.1 Poetry 6.1.2 Prose 6.2 The Surrealists (Late 1930s) 6.3 Postwar literature (1944 1974) 6.4 Contemporary literature (1974 -) The emergence of modern Greek literature (11th - 15th century) The main forms and themes of this period include scholarly and popular epic songs
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Mark Twain is known widely as a satirical novel‚ but due to the satirical techniques Twain uses all throughout the book has caused it to become controversial on whether it should or should not be banned. Although Twain may appear to be racist in Huckleberry Finn‚ he actually wrote the book during the Reconstruction Era but based the book during Pre-Civil War to show the “good ole times” when the white southerners had slaves. Because Twain uses so many satirical techniques to help show readers that
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intent to insult. - Dramatic - All about access to information‚ when a reader or audience member knows more about the situation than a character in a book or play. Caricature – Exaggerate a thing or person’s flaws whether for comedy or deep satirical comment. Characterization (direct vs indirect) – Round – Flat – Static – Dynamic – Stock – Foil Literary Terms Hyperbole – An exaggeration (Hyperbole does not stay within the realm of what is plausible. (Outlandish exaggeration)
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angry at the colored man‚ but rather is upset about the story. Perhaps‚ as a suppressed woman‚ she is sad about the story and can to some degree identify with the coloured man’s plight. Perhaps she is teary eyed because the others have missed the satirical point of the story. Regardless of the
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To what extent can the language and literature of a nation or a race reflect the history and culture of this nation or race? To what extent can the soul of a nation and the universal values in the innermost recesses of the minds of humanity be revealed in the language and literature of a given country? To those questions‚ only the person who is long engaged in the study of this field can find distinctive answers and develop unique perceptions. I believe that the perception of the historical and cultural
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The intricate and multifaceted nature of texts allows composers to express their ideas in such a way that they have an influence on people’s perspectives. It also provides a means to either subvert or conform to the ideologies of the time. The treatment of personal morality‚ due to repercussions of personal morality‚ does not influence the nature of the texts‚ though it to an extent reveals similarities in terms of concerns and reinforces those ideas throughout the texts through their respective
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that University‚ and published his first poem: on reading it‚ John Dryden‚ a distant relation‚ is said to have remarked "Cousin Swift‚ you will never be a poet." Between 1696 and 1699 Swift composed most of his first great work‚ A Tale of a Tub‚ a prose satire on the religious extremes represented by Roman Catholicism and Calvinism‚ and in 1697 he wrote The Battle of the Books‚ a satire defending Temple’s conservative but besieged position in the contemporary literary controversy as to whether the
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ENGLISH STYLISTICS G. Misikova – Linguistic stylistics I. R. Galperin- Stylistics Crystal D. and Davy D. – Investigating English Style / for non-literary styles STYLISTICS Style and Styleme Štylistika je náuka o výbere a spôsobe využívania jazykových a mimojazykových alebo umeleckých prostriedkov a postupov uplatňovaných v procese použitia komunikácie. Jazykový štýl je spôsob prejavu‚ ktorý vzniká cieľavedomým výberom‚ zákonitým usporiadaním a využitím jazykových a mimojazykových
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