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
This article demonstrates how Kurt Vonnegut experiments with the narrative structure of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The study focuses on Vonnegut’s experimentation which assents to postmodern innovative virtuosity. On the outset of postmodernism, two critical issues have been raised. That is, the literature of exhaustion and the literature of replenishment dominating modern literature. Accordingly, this study explores Vonnegut’s critique of literary exhaustion prevailing modernism’s exhausted
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
primary factor that contributes to making a documentary comes from capturing the lives of real people. Rather than imagining a narrative like fiction films, documentaries find real narratives, ones that come from the world everyone resides in. They can focus on current events, past ones, or both, any one can be formed to shape the narrative of a documentary. While a narrative is important to any piece of film, when it comes to this genre, making a statement and informing those who watch it is essential
fictional, he has set new and interesting trends of writing historical fiction, in the literary world. He is passionate about his research and creative writing. He skillfully employs poetic language to uncover the history of the Noongar community in the form of stories. All this aspect of Scott’s writing has increased readers interest. As John Fielder writes: Scott’s writing appeals to readers interested in narratives that explore different ways of story telling and texts that break down in entrenched cultural
perceives a work of fiction. There is a distinction between first-person and third-person narrative, which Gerard Genette describes as homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrative, respectively. A homodiegetic narrator is a character in the story and describes his own personal experiences. A heterodiegetic narrator on the other hand describes the experiences of other characters in the story. ++ Some stories may have an omniscient author who
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
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Ovando brought with him the first black slaves from Africa into the island. Christopher Columbus’s monumental colonising voyage in 1492 not only brought about the “discovery” of the “New World”, but was also instrumental in creating a new world order based on race and discrimination; the most startling example of which is the transatlantic slave trade. Originally imported from Africa to work on the plantations, the incursion of slaves into the
nature as a means of further establishing a relationship to the Christian faith. This representation of the natural world as a link to the divine is developed through the depiction of religious sanctuary. The concept of typology in the Puritan faith is defined as the idea of nature revealing God. While this concept is significant within Edwards’ biographical piece, entitled ‘Personal Narrative’ he creates an image of a nature that not only reveals the divine to man but that also stands in opposition to