Download or read book Literary Structures Character Development and Dramaturgical Scenarios in Framing the Category Novel written by Robert N. St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Formulas of Popular Fiction written by Anna Faktorovich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book creates a taxonomy for the major bestselling fictional genres: romance (e.g., authors Heyer, Cartland, Woodiwiss and Roberts), religious and inspirational (Corelli and Douglas), mystery and detective (Conan Doyle, Christie and Mankell), and science fiction, horror and fantasy (Wells, Tolkien, Orwell, Niven, King and Rowling). Chapters look at a genre from its roots to its most recent works. The structural patterns in the plot, characters and setting of these genres are then explained. The book also provides a critique of currently popular hyper-formulaic, hack, unliterary writings that have multiplied in recent decades. Special topics such as the publishing oligopoly and the resulting homogeneity among bestselling works and the steady movement from literary to unliterary fiction are also examined.
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Download or read book A Cognitive Approach to the Semantics of the German Passive written by Carlee Arnett and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopper & Thompson's (1980) seminal article on transitivity brought forth renewed interest in the passive and other correlates of transitivity. Langacker (1982) and others working with the Cognitive Grammar (CG) framework argue that the passive voice is an independent construction and that it is not a reorganization of the active voice. Language specific problems for the German passive include the use of the dative case to mark certain passive participants, passives formed from verbs and preposition combinations and impersonal passives. This study provides a semantic analysis of all the types of passive constructions found in German and shows that these construction types are related. A corpus of written data is used and the focus is on radial categories of meaning in Modern German.
Download or read book Plots Structure and Character Development in the Category Novel written by Robert St. Clair and published by Publishers Circulation Corporation. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Universal Quantification with Skolemization as Evidenced in Chinese and English written by Shi-Zhe Huang and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the formal definition of universal quantification. The central claim advanced here is that the formal definition of EVERY, which stands for any distributive universal quantifier, ought to incorporate a skolem function to capture the paired reading that for every x there is a y. We claim that this paired reading is present in all universal quantifier sentences. This definition of EVERY requires a variable in the scope of the universal quantifier word. This is so because the skolem function facilitates the paired reading by linking the choice of the value for y with the choice of the value for x. Under this view, securing a variable in the scope of a universal quantifier word becomes a make-or-break requirement of universal quantification. The issues dealt with in this book are highly theoretical and formal, but we approach them almost entirely from an empirical perspective, supporting the skolemized definition of EVERY with evidence drawn exclusively from natural language data, mostly from Chinese, but with some crucial data from English as well. scoping properties of indefinites in Chinese, semantic properties of the Chinese adverb dou and a number of conjunction and additive words, and event semantics. It also offers a novel way of explaining the interaction of dou with interrogative Wh-phrases.
Download or read book Ghanaian English Pronunciation written by Sophia A. Adjaye and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analytical description of the English accent used by Ghanaians. The work begins with a socio-historical background of English use in Ghana, with a view to identifying the possible varieties of English introduced to the then Gold Coast.
Download or read book Comparative Study of Folk Narratives Between West and China written by Lihong Wu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a comparative study on folk narratives. Six folk narratives are selected from the West and China. This investigation intends to conduct an in-depth comparison and contrast of the six folk narratives from Western and Chinese literature. The focus of the study is to divulge the deeper relationships between these stories. An underlying goal of the research is to provide general insights into literary forms from an intercultural perspective. The theoretical underpinnings are mainly the works The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth (1968, 2001) by Joseph Campbell, the work of Carl Jung The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious (1980), the work of Vladimir Propp Morphology of the Folktale (1968) and its expanded and revised investigation Literary Structures, Character Development, and Dramaturgical Scenarios in Framing the Category Novel (2004) by Robert N. St. Clair. This investigation is going to utilize these theories as instruments to analyze the themes, plot structures, and archetypes for a profound understanding of the folk narratives across these disparate cultures. The six folk narratives under study seem to have little in common on the surface, but they share many common properties. In other words, even though these stories come from very different cultural backgrounds, they possess some intriguing commonalities in plot structures ect. Demonstrating that a myth or story has a similar expression in another culture is one aspect of the research, the more valued question is how they differ and why they differ. This investigation is not only to reveal the commonalities; the differences of the folk narratives are also to be explored deeply and discussed from social and cultural aspects. This dissertation consists of six chapters. The first chapter sets the stage for the dissertation. The remaining four chapters address the issue concerned in this dissertation from different perspectives. The last chapter is a summary and conclusion of the research.
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Download or read book Literary Structures Character Development and Dramaturgical Scenarios in Framing the Category Novel written by Robert N. St. Clair and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, St. Clair (linguistics, U. of Louisville) reveals the underlying plot structures used in popular culture novels belonging in specific commercial categories. Early chapters discuss plot theory, character development, and the characteristics of a "page turner." The remaining chapters explore the specific story-telling formulas employed in romance, murder mystery, western, and science fiction novels. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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Download or read book Fact and Fiction written by Albrecht Koschorke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we develop a cultural theory starting with the basic insight that human beings are "storytelling animals"? Within literary studies, narratology is a highly developed field. However, literary historians have not paid much attention to the large and small stories abounding in everyday discourse, guiding all kinds of social activity, and providing common ground for whole societies—but also fueling controversies and hostilities. Moreover, "narrative" is not only a scholarly category but has come into use in many fields of social activity as a tool for cultural self-fashioning. This book is based on the assumption that to a large extent, social dynamics is modeled in an aesthetic manner via narratives. It explores the narrative organization of cultural spaces and time-frames, the mythological shaping of communities and adversaries, and the co-production of narratives and institutions aimed at stabilizing social life. In this framework, the epistemological problem looms large of how an instrument as unreliable as narrative can participate in the creation of a social consensus regarding truth. This problem endows the general topics explored in this book with a particularly contemporary dimension.
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Download or read book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life written by Erving Goffman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and cotnrol the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.
Download or read book The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers written by Johnny Saldana and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers is unique in providing, in one volume, an in-depth guide to each of the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. In total, 29 different approaches to coding are covered, ranging in complexity from beginner to advanced level and covering the full range of types of qualitative data from interview transcripts to field notes. For each approach profiled, Johnny Saldaña discusses the method’s origins in the professional literature, a description of the method, recommendations for practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example.
