This paper investigates Mark Twain`s critical attitude to sentimental romanticism by analyzing two major novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court These novels deal with the criticism on sentimental romanticism In the first chapter, the sentimental romanticism of Southern American society is criticized indirectly Throu..
This paper examines the effectiveness of output on the second language acquisition in the light of theoretical claims and empirical evidence found in the previous studies For theoretical claims of output, the current study explores a number of models mainly grounded in psycholinguistic and cognitive theories to provide better explanation of how functions of output are invo..
The purpose of this study is to investigate the speech act of apology of Korean EFL learners and to assess the appropriateness of the speech act of apology to the particular situations The study employed 139 Korean learners of English and divided those subjects into two groups, Group A(74 students with TOEIC scores about 800), and Group B(65 students with TOEIC scores ab..
The purpose of this paper is to review May`s (1977, 1985) Quantifier Raising in Autonomous Syntax, to look for problems in QR and to find out how the native speakers express themselves when there are some problems First, in Autonomous Syntax the Empty Category Principle doesn`t play enough role to get rid of ill-formed sentences with regard to quantifier raising in Logica..
This essay examines the ecological content arid significance of nature poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins It starts with examining the views of Ignatius Loyola in terms of the man-and-nature relationship in a theological context, from which Hopkins develops his own idea of how nature serves to form a salvific vision for humans On this basis, the essay reviews and analyzes four..
This paper aims to examine the principles and the historical arguments of the sublimity, an affection, which can be experienced through the works of arts and the cultural products in multimedia era Lyotard argues that it is the time of postmodern and the term presents the shifted meanings on aesthetical experience in terms of different principles of images and narratives fro..
The purpose of this study is to evaluate Yun Chi-ho`s diary and investigate a change in his writings over time To achieve the goal of this study, T-unit analysis was initially adopted to ascertain the average length of the T-units the ratio of clauses per T-unit, and the ratio of error free T-units, and to measure the sentence maturity Secondly, TWE holistic evaluation was ..
Henry James employs silence as part of his narrative strategy in many of his tales Such a predilection for reticence, the withholding power of not telling the whole story, adds to the complexity of James`s literature This paper aims to examine the ways in which James develops the meanings of his tale and the sense of knowledge that grows in Maisie, by exploring the silence s..