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 literary forms in order to provide them with permanent literary replenishment. Vonnegut accomplishes his critique through manipulating the novel’s plot, narrator, and character’s discourse. It will be argued that Vonnegut mixes real experiences with fictional
CORPUS • Corpus Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on News Reports of the 2011 Libyan Civil War1-Sibo Chen School of Communication, Simon Fraser University This paper reports a comparative analysis of the news coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war in two national media. The 2011 Libyan civil war attracted wide attention and was extensively covered by various media around the world. However, news discourse regarding the war was constructed differently across various news agencies
century and to the present day. The question now arises of whether Arab-American literature can be considered outside of political contexts or politics is an integral part and the main issue in one way or another tackled in most of the Arab-American literary
In “Address to the Nation”, a speech released by President Barack Obama on December 6th of 2015, Obama discusses the ubiquitous issue of terrorism, specifically referring to ISIL. An analysis of the first section of this speech uncovered the anomaly of a tragedy depicting 14 American soldiers who were killed in the hands of a terror organization formally known as ISIL. As the president advances in his national address, he elucidates all aspects of terrorism in this tragedy, but also details pertaining
2015 Literary Analysis The books The Great Gatsby and The Things They Carried, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Tim O’Brien respectively, are two disparate novels written in styles of the same kindred. The former is written through the eyes of Nick, an Ivy League graduate looking to work as a stockbroker in the heart of New York. The latter, also written as a first-person narrative, is a personal account of the author himself as he describes his experiences in the Vietnam War. Both
and meaning of genre. Literary generic categories, as we understand them in the United States, have existed since the nineteen thirties, although dedicated scholarly attention began only in the nineteen seventies. Frederic Jameson’s article Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre argued that ‘genres are essentially contracts between a writer and his readers; or rather … they are literary institutions … like other agreements or contacts’. This declaration of the nature of literary genre was an addition
Transformation of the Idea of History in A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters The usual understanding of history as a phenomenon is mostly abstract. Some people would define history as a consequence of dates when great battles took place and Monarchs finished their reigns with mysterious deaths. The history of the world is usually narrowed to numbers, names, toponyms and – what is significant – books. Not only textbooks on history, but literature itself represents history through words and pages
War. One word has the capability of instilling within an individual feelings of dread, rage, grief, will power, disgust, torment, and various others. However, despite the various examples, one word appears to be more prominent than any other. That word is death. Throughout time, poetry has been used in numerous ways to bring awareness to events in life, including the violence or war. In the poem, “Out, Out –,” author Robert Frost creates an image of a young boy who, by unfair circumstances, is killed
inventiveness. Francis Scott Fitzgerald – a great American writer who made an impact on history of world literature owing to his novels about American’s life in 1920s years, among which especially
I chose Hunter S. Thompson’s, Fear & Loathing in America, for the Unit #5 Discussion Assignment. This creative non-fiction story reports on the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attacks at New York City’s World Trade Center Towers and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Thompson uses the events as a vehicle to make a larger statement about United States leadership and its policy. Thompson writes in a creative non-fiction style, wrapping sarcasm, drama and extreme descriptions around the facts. His style