Introduction The concept of narrative has become one of the most discussed themes in sociolinguistics since the 1960s. Humans have the tendency to explain the world around them through rationality which, according to Barbara (2001), brought to develop the ability of telling stories. A narrative is a story containing a series of events that take place over a specific period of time. A well structured narrative should report the events following a chronological order. The sociolinguistic researches
Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), as the title suggests, is a memoir, which portrays the individual experiences and personal lives of the authoress and her students in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution 1979. In addition, as the subtitle suggests, Nafisi’s work constructs this personal memoir using various fictional texts such as Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Daisy Miller. Through the act of reading the above mentioned fictional texts, the individuals
venture into the role of story-telling and narratives in anthropological discipline and give one take on how it is possible to understand the given role. By drawing on Tim Ingold`s understanding of the processes of getting to know phenomena existing in the world around us I shortly discuss the idea of fieldwork as a cognitive journey defined by reflexivity. When doing fieldwork the anthropologist inevitably joins the stories shared with her with personal stories, meaning that ethnographic work presents
Now a day’s ‘aging’ has become an excessively discussed subject especially in European world. Aging is a very crucial topic to define. Basically from general point of view, human being grow old physically (i.e. chronological aging) and psychologically. Becoming, physically old means loss in physical strength, falling senses and weak memory. An elderly person may find difficulty in doing day to day activities and sometime even in sitting and walking. . Besides, as a person grow old chronologically
remembering an event, but “it includes structures of feeling and all the ways that people with culturally specific identifications remember precisely” (Oliva-Alvarado 4). This means that the memories of these comfort women do not only include their experiences, but also the pain, trauma, grief, and shame, and all of these are with them throughout their life. Just like Catalina Lorenzo, one of the Filipino comfort women, stated, “Do you think we have forgotten what had happened?” Everyday we wake up and
Beyond Band of Brothers Beyond Band of Brothers is a non-fiction historical account of the U.S. Army's Easy Company during World War II. It was written by Major Richard "Dick" Winters with Colonel Cole C. Kingseed. Major Winters was the Commander of Easy Company's 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Although Beyond Band of Brothers is his biggest work, he also authored The Jesuits Dance in 2005 and A Horseman's Journey: from the First Ride to Spin and Slide in 2010. He wrote Beyond Band of Brothers
Stages of Grief Paper Grief is inseparable from the human condition. When sin entered the world it opened the world to grief. While all of humanity shares the experience of grief; it is a deeply personal and individual experience. There are many ways in which humans process grief. One useful way to process grief is through writing therapy (O'Connor, Nikoletti, Kristjanson, Loh & Willcock, 2003). In the story Lament for a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff writes about his son who died in a climbing accident
theories that commenced developing centuries ago through written texts, progressed in the last decades to visual media, and are recently being applied to transmedia storytelling. Numerous narratological terminologies can be discerned from the fictional worlds, enabling narratologists to apply and develop theories within this dynamic new media. For this paper’s purpose, I will use League of Legends; a multiplayer online battle arena video game, to compare between literary texts and digital media, drawing
Part of my research has involved a change of focus, and even though discussing the personal and psychological reasons for this change is beyond the questions of the thesis, I consider my motivation an important part of the research background, that has ultimately led to the final choice of methodology. There are many approaches to human
literature all about telling the truth whether it was beautiful or not, ignore the propaganda published by the newspapers, and focusing on the common people and the problems they suffered from. Before slavery, literature was all about the beautiful in the world. Romanticists cherished nature and emotions, and used this as their main topic in their literature. As slavery appeared throughout