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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
31 May 1980-
About: The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: The epoch between World War I and that of World War II is framed by two of the landmark prose satires of the century as discussed by the authors, Tarr (1918) and Animal Farm (1945), which employed the traditional form of the fable to put across its complex critique of revolutionary socialism with almost populist clarity.
Abstract: The epoch between the end of World War I and that of World War II is framed by two of the landmark prose satires of the century. However, while Wyndham Lewis’s Tarr (1918) is an uncompromising product of the Modernist avant-garde, George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) employs the traditional form of the fable to put across its complex critique of revolutionary socialism with almost populist clarity, the epitome, in every way (apart from its brevity) of all that High Modernism spurned. Other satires of note appeared in the interim, so although the 1918–45 period is most strikingly an era of ambitious rebuilding in Anglo-Irish fiction, with Joyce and Woolf as its leading architects, it is hardly less boldly a time of demolition (both of the certainties of the past and the enthusiasms of the present), with Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh as its foremost iconoclasts. Moreover, although the type of social satire with which these three novelists are associated largely dies out by the mid-1930s (before resurfacing, mutatis mutandis , in the 1950s novels of Kingsley Amis and Angus Wilson), a satirical spirit pervades the period’s literature and is evident, for example, in Ulysses , Jacob’s Room , The Waste Land, Orlando , Finnegans Wake and Between the Acts . ‘Imuch doubt that any young person of our time can be impressed by a poem, a painting, or a piece of music that is not flavored with a dash of irony’, the cultural critic Jose Ortegay Gasset remarked in 1925.
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: This article analyzed the discourse of news reports on selected events of the second Intifada, both from cross-cultural and inter-cultural perspectives, by exploring the way Arab and Western newspapers report on some recent events of conflict and the way different newspapers issued in the UK cover the same events.
Abstract: As one of the most violent, ideological and intractable conflicts in modern history, sited in a very sensitive and strategic region, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has always been under the spotlight of media and politicians. The conflict is almost a constant item in the coverage of news outlets, especially since the outbreak of the spiraling violence that marked the end of the peace process and the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising in the fall of 2000. The discourse of the conflict is as ideological and controversial as the conflict itself. Even news reporting, which is governed by values of truthfulness, accuracy, balance, impartiality and integrity, has always been the object of scrutiny and criticism by members of both sides who often accuse newspapers of bias against them. The discourse of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been the object of a number of academic studies. This thesis aims to contribute to this body of knowledge about the discourse of the conflict by critically analysing the discourse of news reports on selected events of the second Intifada, both from cross-cultural and inter-cultural perspectives, by exploring the way Arab and Western newspapers report on some recent events of the conflict and the way different newspapers issued in the UK cover the same events.
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TL;DR: Analyse litteraire et semiotique de deux textes rediges par Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri (1817-1892) surnomme Baha'u'llah, fondateur de la religion Baha', relatifs a la doctrine de l'unite des Grands Prophetes (Moise, Jesus, Muhammad, Baha'),.
Abstract: Analyse litteraire et semiotique de deux textes rediges par Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri (1817-1892) surnomme Baha'u'llah, fondateur de la religion Baha'i et relatifs a la doctrine de l'unite des Grands Prophetes (Moise, Jesus, Muhammad, Baha'u'llah)
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