Terry Eagleton What is Literature Doing a polemical study of contemporary literary theory‚ Eagleton introduces us in this world explaining what is actually fiction. a. Imaginative writing One definition is that literature is imaginative writing‚ based on its fictionality and do not engage in the literal truth. However‚ Eagleton rejects this theory‚ since the literature also includes nonfiction genres such as essay and autobiography. Distinguishing between fiction and fact‚ or truth and fantasy
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Outline: 1. Transformational Generative Grammar 2. Constructional grammar 3. Communicative grammar TRANSFORMATIONAL-GENERRATIVE GRAMMAR “Transformational Generative Grammar Theory” was presented byNoam Chomsky. This theory is about structure (Syntax) of sentences ina language. This theory tells us how syntax is formed and learned. Syntax: The study and organization or arrangement of sentences in alanguage is called Syntax. T.G.G theory explains this arrangement and organization
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“The Negro’s Complaint” by William Cowper In “The Negro’s Complaint”‚ which was published in The Gentleman’s Magazine in December 1793‚ William Cowper successfully creates a dramatic monologue in which the Negro slave is given the full chance to give a fervent‚ heartfelt account of the journey of suffering‚ cruelty‚ and disdain from the pleasures of freedom in Africa to the tortures of slavery in England. The Negro is further allowed to defend the humanity of the African race‚ refute all the slave
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Major Works Data Sheet Billy Budd 1. Title: Billy Budd 2. Author: Herman Melville 3. Date of Publication: 1924 (posthumously) 4. Historical Information: As divulged to the reader‚ Billy Budd takes place in 1797 in the midst of the French Revolution. Throughout the mid- 1790s‚ Britain enacted new quota requirements to enlist 45‚000 men in the Royal Navy‚ which was filled by means of volunteers‚ the Quota Acts‚ and most popularly‚ the impressing of men from merchant ships‚ as Melville
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1. Introduction The objective of this project is to scrutinize the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me through the lens of semiotics. Our group has chosen to approach our analysis through the extraction of narrative models‚ metonyms‚ metaphors‚ the use and also subversion of stereotypes and intertextuality. The film uses these devices to both inject humour and to subvert the notions that society has brought us up to believe in. The methodology employed is the viewing and analysis of the
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“Romantic” – this word holds many different connotations and brings to mind a collection of different images. It can be “fanciful‚ impractical‚ unrealistic”; it can be “ardent‚ passionate‚ fervent”; and it can be “imaginary‚ fictitious‚ or fabulous”. According to the dictionary‚ “romantic” is an adjective characterized by a preoccupation with love‚ or by the idealizing of love or one’s beloved. In the three poems I have chosen – “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare‚ “La
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ECOCRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ’HARD TIMES ’ BY CHARLES DICKENS. INTRODUCTION: Charles Dickens was one of the most important social commentators who used fiction effectively to criticize economic‚ social‚ and moral abuses in the Victorian era. He showed compassion towards the vulnerable and disadvantaged segments of English society‚ and contributed to several important social reforms. Dickens was successful in exposing the ills of the industrial society including class division‚
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Rizal Technological University College of Education Major in English (Assignment in Stylistics English 107) Submitted by: Alfred Jefferson M. Reclosado Introduction: Figure of Speech Figures of speech (or ’rhetorical tropes’) are ways of using words that may seem unusual but have a specific and desired effect. Read as ’normal words’ they often break normal rules of grammar‚ but can be nevertheless understood they are common in poetry and eloquent speech. ’Figures of speech’ is often used
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Chapter I Historical Background of English vocabulary Linguistic Notions: 1. Cognate 2. Etymology 3. Jargon 4. The core vocabulary 5. The learned vocabulary 6. Dialect 7. Inflection 6. Linguistic knowledge 3 Language classification (a) Isolating Each idea expressed in a separate word or morpheme; words tend to be monosyllabic e.g‚ Chinese; (b) Agglutinative Words made of multiple syllables;
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Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov Course Paper The Use of Slang in Modern American And British Newspapers Faculty: Foreign Languages Department: English and Linguistics Year: 3 Group: 14 Student: Maria Zakharyan Supervisor: L. Sargsyan Yerevan 2012 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION...............................................................
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