This paper examines William Wordsworth`s epic heroism in `Arab Dream` of The Prelude, analyzing the `knight` of uncouth shape and `deluge` in the desert The knight`s story can be read as another version of Don Quixote, and the deluge as an allusion to Robert Southey`s deluge epic, Thalaba, the Destroyer Echoing with and alluding to these books, Wordsworth presents an att..
Patti Kim`s A Cab Called Reliable delineates Ahn Joo Cho, a Korean-American, who undergoes an identity crisis in dealing with conflicts between the norms prescribed by different social institutions, such as the family and the school This paper examines how the protagonist grapples with the experience of growing up to be a self-reliant adult In constant conflict with diff..
The social function of literature has been questioned since its birth About 330 BC, Aristotle gave a firm answer to it Catharsis In the medical practice of Hippocrates and his school, and later in the Asclepian therapy, there are studies of the cathartic processes of diarrhoea, vomiting, and menstruation Catharsis can be considered to be mainly the purgation, purification..
Jamaica Kincaid, a US immigrant black writer from the Anglophone Caribbean (Antigua), has created postcolonial texts in that she attempts to make more visible the relation of unequal power between the (post)colonial margins and the so-called metropolitan centers, as well as that between the mainstream and the minorities within the US with the goal of ending it She especia..
This article explores Elizabeth Stuart Phelps`s two works, The Silent Partner and The Tenth of January, based on critical perspectives of Bakhtinian dialogic discourse Phelps was one of the most popular woman novelists in the nineteenth century She was the writer of the second best selling novel, The Silent Partner, just after Harriet Beecher Stowe`s Uncle Tom`s Cabin,..
D H Lawrence`s post-war novels-The Lost Girl, St Mawr, and The Plumed Serpent -have striking similarity with the central ideas of Antonin Artaud`s concepts of theatre of cruelty Despite of noticeable differences, Lawrence and Artaud both share a considerable amount of common grounds they were influenced by Nietzschean ideas At the early part of the twentieth century, L..
John Millington Synge`s first play Riders to the Sea is the most imaginative, impressive, and tragic work out of his six plays In this play in one act, Synge deals with the Aran island surrounded by the relentless sea, the details and multiple deaths of everyday peasant life, individual torment and fatalistic submission Especially, Synge presents the cruelty of the sea as..
This paper has two aims The first is to point out the relationship between text types and discourse markers, and the second is to apply these discourse markers to the teaching of academic writing to foreign students studying Korean language at the university level This study assumes that discourse markers are very important in structuring texts, and that all texts have disc..
This paper aims to review how readers comprehend a context of expository text with visual codes, investigate the relations between written text and visual code, and propose to develop readers`s literacies, focusing on the text interface`s functions in comprehending and writing a written text Recently, hypertexts as a expository text for practical purposes, are widely commu..
The aim of this work is that suggest synthetic cognition based writing model construction Until now, but represented writing model exclusive affective factors of writing, we need synthetic perspective of writing model construction included motivation, belief such as factors Because this model which synthesis cognition and affection reflect humans` mind exactly In synthet..
With the acknowledgement about the importance of the writing competence in the society the writing education becomes nowaday mode There are however some problems in the writing education One of these problems relates with the fact that the writing education is concentrated too much on the competence of the logical and critical thinking, because the competence is considered ..
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss Sahyangga, a Korean Roman Catholic epic(in Korean, Cheonjugasa) from the viewpoint of text linguistics For this purpose, I investigated the differences of some variants of Sahyangga, and analysed the macro structures of them Furthermore, I discussed the intention of the author of Sahyangga and the intertextuality between that epi..
Repetition is prevalent not only in literary works but also in ordinary conversation This research examines types and functions of repetition from an interactional perspective in Waiting for Godot, a modern play written by S Beckett (1954) Adopting notions and methodology of conversation analysis (CA), this research provides a CA-based analysis of repetition in the play..
Heutzutage wird es immer haufiger von Hybridisierung der Medienangebote geredet Also, das Schlusselwort Textgemeinschaft (Text-Community kurz TG) gilt im wissenschaftlichen sowie im praktischen Umfeld als ein aktuelles Thema zwischen Alltagsleben und Textsemiotik Bei dieser Lage versucht dieser Aufsatz eine texttheoretische Analyse uber das sog Bordmagazin einer v..
In dieser Arbeit geht es um die sieben Kriterien der Textualitat von R-A de Beaugrande und W U Dressler, die als Kernbegriffe in der Textlinguistik betrachtet werden Sie definieren einen Text als eine kommunikative Okkurenz, die sieben Kriterien der Textualitat erfullt Wenn irgendeines dieser Kriterien nicht erfullt wird, so gilt der Text nicht als kommunikativ Daher ..