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Amiri, Niloufar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
In our modern world where people suffer from self-alienation and are after the meaning of existence in their mechanical and flamboyant outside world, finding a discernible language is very important. Dejected minds of people are the products of the miserable modern societies which have changed them to the taciturn and uncommunicative creatures in…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Drama, Literary Styles, Literary Devices
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El-Sharif, Ahmad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This article makes a literary review to the linguistic research in the use of metaphor in didactic discourse; especially the religious one. Acknowledging Conceptual Metaphor Theory as the primary theory in the field, the researcher embarks upon how metaphor is perceived and analysed in discourse in order to pertain its persuasive function. The…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Islam, Religion
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Btoosh, Mousa A. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Perhaps rarely is there any piece of Pre-Islamic Arabic literature where color features more strongly and less naturally than in Antara's poetry. Therefore, the intended message of color in Antara's poetry is adequately understood inasmuch as the pragmatic implicatures of color are worked out. Evidence in literature explicitly attributes Antara's…
Descriptors: Color, Poetry, Figurative Language, Pragmatics
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Dibavar, Sara Saei; Ahmadzadeh, Shideh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In "Wuthering Heights," Brontë provides us with the opportunity to meet two writing subjects; Emily Brontë herself and her character Catherine Earnshaw. Both these writers resist and challenge the authority of the patriarchal. Their different methods of interaction, though, cause one to fail and the other one to succeed. The objective of…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Figurative Language
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Sarker, Md Abdul Momen; Talukder, Tusar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The paper brings into focus how Syed Manzoorul Islam, in his three-decade-long literary career, has mastered a narrative style that sets him apart from many of his Bengali contemporaries. It demonstrates all the traits unique to his storytelling: blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, self-reflexivity, irony, and humor. The research…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Language Styles, Authors, Indo European Languages
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Bharadwaj, S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Irony, inclusiveness, and complexity are the chief criteria of value in the twentieth century intellectual poetry. These criteria, however, do not merely indicate qualities of craftsmanship; they reflect a sensibility, a particular way of experiencing reality. What really distinguishes Dylan Thomas is a capacity for self-analysis, a capacity for…
Descriptors: Poetry, Twentieth Century Literature, Figurative Language, Philosophy
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Amrita; Anisha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Mira Bai, a saint-poet of North India is an important figure in medieval Hindi literature. Her "bhajan"-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein target domains are generally abstract. Since, the working of the mind is more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Poetry, Cognitive Processes, Spiritual Development
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Maleska, Kalina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This essay explores the theme of the double in Umberto Eco's "The Island of the Day Before," Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Zivko Chingo's "The Big Water." While traditionally the double is connected with the evil alter-ego of the protagonist, what brings these three works together (by an Italian, English and…
Descriptors: Novels, Literary Genres, Literary Devices, Twentieth Century Literature