Assignment 1 ‘Star of the Sea’ by Joseph o Connor is a text set during the Irish Potato Famine‚ in 1847. The Irish Potato famine of the 1840s was the greatest social catastrophe of 19th century Europe‚ yet inspired surprisingly little imaginative writing. (Eagleton‚ 2002) However this book has been described by the Sunday Times as having ‘compelling characters and a dizzying narrative’ (Heaney‚ 2007) This compelling story is set around a wealthy‚ turned bankrupt‚ land owner and his family who
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What is meant by style and stylistics? Style is concerned with the artful expression of idea and stylistics is the bridge that links the idea of style to the analysis of literary texts through the tool of linguistics. The 19th century‚ that witnessed evolution in the field of biography‚ historiography‚ anthropology and others‚ could not remain unattached to immutable linguistic and stylistic norms in literature. Linguistic study was esoteric in the beginning and severely criticized as‚ "pretension
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blue sea in the far side. On the left‚ a tall cliff dominates almost a half of the painting. Rysselberghe painted “The Regatta” with two main colors‚ the blue of the sea‚ and the yellow-orange of the cliff. “The Slave Ship” is an oil on canvas‚ 36 x 48 inches painting. This painting depicts the scene with a ship sailing in the background‚ kind of being blended between the high waves and the deep blood-like red sky. In the foreground‚ people in pieces floating among the fierce fish‚ and sea monsters
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Cat in the Rain‚ stylistic analysis Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction‚ as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. It’s a third person narration text. The description is interlaced with descriptive passages
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A Stylistics Analysis of Sons and Lovers 2006级教育硕士 周凌帆 2006694 一．Abstract: In this essay‚ I mainly talk about the author‚ D.H.Lawrence and his works. And I also give a brief analysis of Sons and Lovers. 二．Key words: Sons and Lovers‚ analysis 三．Body: 1. Brief account of the author of the passage David Herbert Lawrence is one of the major novelists of the English tradition He was born at Eastwood‚ England‚ in 1885‚ the fourth child of a collier father and a genteel mother
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “HARD TIMES” by Ch. Dickens. 1. The extract under consideration comes from “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens. The author was the well-loved and prolific British author of numerous works that are now considered classics. In a whimsical and unique fashion‚ Dickens pointed out society’s flaws in terms of its blinding greed for money and its neglect of the lower classes of society. Through his books‚ we come to understand the virtues of a loving heart and
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Reading Reaction A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Reading Reaction The short story‚ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚ is written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is a story containing lots of imagery and symbolism‚ and sheds light on the cruelty of human nature. With those elements‚ Marquez wrote a perfect magical realism story‚ everything from the setting‚ to the smell of the town’s air is put under the microscope. The story starts off at what many would guess is a small town off the coast somewhere
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Spencer Long Daniel Gleason ENG 211 19th April‚ 2015 Research Context Essay: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez‚ or locally known as Gabo‚ was born in 1928 at a small Colombian village near the Caribbean coast. Because his parents were so poor‚ his grandparents chose to raise him‚ and later he would say that he drew much of his inspirational stories from his dear grandmother. Gabriel is said to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish
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“Zombieland” is a film where a lot of stylistic choices were made. Especially the opening scene says a lot about the film and the characters. Mise-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ editing and sound shape the film’s effect on the viewer. The film begins in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. The first shot is unbalanced to prime our expectation that something will change position. The shot is of the American flag‚ which is focused while the background is unfocused which means it indicates that the flag
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Human Response to Strangeness In Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” the main character‚ Pelayo‚ encounters a supernatural being which he abuses to gain monetary value. When the strange man with wings came‚ the whole town was baffled and mesmerized because they were all curious of where the man is from. In the character of the old man with wings‚ García Márquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” exemplifies the relationship between tolerance and suffering
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