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Style archives from September 2003
Mind style translated.
September 22, 2003... 1. Choice, Style, and Mind Style
Many different approaches to style share the view that the style of a text or utterance is the result of a set of choices made by the writer or speaker (Fowler, Linguistic Criticism 185-86; Wales 436). If...
The Poetics of M. F. K. Fisher.
September 22, 2003... M. F. K. Fisher once said, "I do not consider myself a food writer" (qtd. in Lopate 545). Notwithstanding her view, she remains known for her copious body of writing on gastronomy and her English translation of Brillat-Savarin's famous 1825...
Toni Cade Bambara's use of African American Vernacular English in "The Lesson".
September 22, 2003... In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson" (1972), the narrator, Sylvia, speaks and narrates in African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This is an appropriate dialect for Sylvia, who lives in a New York ghetto, is a working-class...
The role of music in Gabriel Josipovici's Goldberg: variations.
September 22, 2003... Introduction: Goldberg: Variations and The Tradition of Art "Aspir[ing] towards The Condition of Music"
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music"--like many sweeping aesthetic statements this famous dictum of Walter...
Negation as a stylistic feature in Joseph Heller's Catch-22: a corpus study (1).
September 22, 2003... Although the logical, grammatical, and semantic features of negation have been the object of discussion for decades, little attention has been paid to the pragmatic functions of negation in fictional discourse. Thus, few studies have been...
Tzvetan Todorov. Devoirs et delices: une vie de passeur. Entretiens avec Catherine Portevin.
September 22, 2003... Tzvetan Todorov. Devoirs et delices: une vie de passeur. Entretiens avec Catherine Portevin. Paris: Seuil, 2002. 395 pp.
This latest book by a scholar who has chosen the path of the lone researcher is unusual in several respects. Firstly,...
H. Porter Abbott. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative.
September 22, 2003... H. Porter Abbott. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 203 pp. $55.00 cloth; $20.00 paper.
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative wastes no time in laying out its goal. The first...