Ragtime is a novel set in America at the beginning of this century. Its characters reflect all that is most significant and dramatic in America’s last hundred years. One character‚ Coalhouse Walker Jr.‚ a black pianist love affair with young Sarah and abandoned her to later reunite. But who bore his child was resentful when he came to rectify his actions. The novel will take you through the tragedy of their lives. This novel written by the well-known novelist named E.L. Doctorow is about the
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Luncheon of the Boating Party Luncheon of the Boating Party is a European artwork painted in 1880-1881 by French Impressionist‚ Pierre Auguste Renoir. In traditional Impressionist style‚ Renoir depicted a scene from modern life and based it in a place he knew well - the Restaurant Fournaise. Chatou was one of Renoir’s beloved settings and Luncheon of the Boating Party is a romanticized portrait of his friends enjoying a Sunday afternoon on the balcony of the restaurant. His intention was to take
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Decoding Stylistics Stylistics of the author and of the reader. The notions of encoding and decoding Decoding stylistics is the most recent trend in stylistic research that employs theoretical findings in such areas of science as information theory‚ psychology‚ statistical studies in combination with linguistics‚ literary theory‚ history of art‚ literary criticism‚ etc. Decoding stylistics makes an attempt to regard the esthetic value of a text based on the interaction
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Stylistic Analysis: Hamlet Soliloquy Shakespeare’s Hamlet is full of misdirection and mysterious happenings that are only explained to the audience through various soliloquies and hidden actions. Hamlet’s soliloquy in act 3‚ scene 2‚ is crucial for the audience to understand the mental struggle and inconsistent characteristics of the play’s eponymous protagonist. Hamlet incorporates dark‚ sinister-like images‚ to portray his future course of action towards his mother‚ Gertrude. Hamlet’s soliloquy
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The Luncheon by Somerset Maugham Analysis The text under analysis belongs to the pen of William Somerset Maugham‚ the one of the best known English writers of the 20th century. He was not only a novelist‚ but also one of the most successful dramatist and short-story writers. He was born in Paris in 1874. His parents died when he was very young. The boy was taken away from the French school‚ and went for his lessons daily to the apartment of the English clergyman at the church‚ then he was sent
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A Stylistic Analysis of Death of a Pig In the article Death of a Pig‚ the author E. B. White recorded the last few days he spent with his young pig. This article was inspired by his real experience. After reading the whole article‚ readers can feel strongly that E. B. White didn’t treat his young pig as an animal‚ but a human‚ like a child‚ a friend or a relative. His various and accurate descriptions of the death of his young pig make readers feel that one of his family members pass away
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that is theoretically maintained unchanged In recent years considerable attention has been paid to stylistic variation in linguistic description. Variation which used to be described as free has lately been described as fitting within identifiable linguistic or social parameters. Studying stylistic variation is the main focus of this project which is based on the observation that language variation depends not only on the social
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1. Style and Stylistics. Language‚ speech and text. No one knows for sure what it is. The scope of problems stylistics is to solve‚ its very object and its tasks are open to discussion up to the present day‚ regardless of the fact that it goes back to ancient rhetoric and poetics. According to I.R. Galperin‚ the term STYLE is presumed (by various authors) to apply to the following fields of investigation: the aesthetic function of language; (reference to works of art‚ that is of poetry and
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David and Jennifer are living in the age of negativity. The environment is going to hell‚ unemployment is going to rise‚ life just sucks in general. This doesn’t bother Jennifer‚ but David wishes his life was more like his favorite 50′s TV show‚ Pleasantville. He’s seen every episode to the point of memorization; so when a mysterious TV repairman gives him a remote that transports him and his sister‚ Jennifer‚ into the show; he’s thrilled‚ but she is not. David (now Bud) tries to get Jennifer (now
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and quote approach is not enough to argue for a particular view of text‚ ∵ logical gaps often exists ∵ intuition is not enough 6. Stylisticians also use the same kind of approach on non-literary texts. 7. Another important strand in developing Stylistics: The Russian Formalist‚ (Moscow) - IA Richard the first stylisticians‚ but their work
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