The Techniques of Joseph's Characterization in "The Story of Joseph"

The Story of Joseph, from his sold to Egypt to his reunion with his family, is one of the longest stories of "The Old Testament". It's a story of a young man's growth which belongs to the fictional tradition of bildungsroman in the West. This paper explores the techniques of Joseph's characterization in the process of Joseph's reunion with his brothers.     

Katherine Mansfield and Her short story

Katherine Mansfield was an outstanding British short story writer. As a freelance writer and reviewer, she achieved great success with some short stories.One of her most famous masterpieces is "A Dill Pickle", on which this article comments. "A Dill Pickle" shows the extent to which romantic love is dependent upon circumstances and the convergence of certain character traits at a particular time. The story artfully and subtlety points up the heroine' s sensitivity and the man' s insensitivity to others - their feelings, attitudes and inner motivations.     

Dreams and Reality—About Impressionism and Epiphany in Araby

In Araby, Joyce’s well written style is exemplified, as well as his deep thoughts. From the perspective of literary devices, Joyce employs"impressionism"and"epiphany"which are special artistic devices he has applied in this story. The author discusses the plot, setting in Araby, and analyzes the characters in it. Through a thorough study of Araby, the thesis is in order to push forward the understanding of Joyce’s purpose in writing the story. The discussion of impressionism and epiphany in this thesis is an attempt to focus the discussion on the story alone, combing the inner unity and integrity of this device, providing better understanding of the functions and management of such new innovations, thus a better understanding of the work itself.     

The Analysis of Epiphany in A Little Cloud

A Little Cloud is one of the short stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners which can be regarded as a container of smaller epiphanies since"epiphany"is used as a predominant psychological device. This article aims to analyze the three epiphanies of the main character, in which the theme of the story, the hero’s failure in escaping from the paralyzed society and pursuing his ambitious dream, was fully embodied.     

The Depressed Image of Winesburg,Ohio

Winesburg Ohio is a famous short story in American literary history, through the study of this short story collection,the main and primary aim is to discuss social background of that certain time. People’s social life in this story was in Midwest America, which represented the whole country at that period of time. For Winesburg as a microcosm: The so called grotesque figures of Winesburg were forced to meet and handle issues and events, which people universally undergo. Winesburg then became Any Town, USA and the flaws and struggles represented by these characters were same as be met by the ordinary people with the common human experience. Sherwood Anderson’s motivation to write them was to show the typical human community to us.With analysis of three famous figures below to illustrate how depressed they were, and to indicate Anderson’s great contribution to the American literature. Also what were readers’ reactions to this masterpiece.     

Story Time and Narrative Time-On the Time in When We Two Parted

As narratives are composed of the content encoded and the medium giving concrete shape to them,narratives are inseparably intertwined with temporalities,those of story time and narrative time.In the poem When We Two Parted,there is the co-existence of story time and narrative time.The story time covers three sections depicting separately the past events,the present and the future.They are boiled down into the poem in thirty two lines in total,which gives rise to the variance between duration of story time and duration of narrative time.The durations endow the poem with distinguishable narrative effects.     

The Essence of Language in Toni Morrison’s View through an Analysis of Her Nobel Lecture and Novels

In 1993,the Nobel Prize of Literature was granted to an American black woman writer,Toni Morrison.She disclosed the features of language in her Nobel Lecture with a story of"the bird-in-hand".Language is both a tool of the ruling class to govern people and a tool fort he common people to understand society and express themselves.Morrison has a deep understanding of it and makes good use of the features to express women’s liberation and racial liberation in her works,which make her language peculiar and her ...     

Miniature of The Bluest Eye—A Stylistic Approach to the First Fragment

Morrison’s The Bluest Eye begins with a fragment—a triply-repeated story.In the second narration,all punctuation disappears,along with the capital letters.In the third telling,the spacing between the sentences fades,which creates a sense of incomprehensible linguistic chaos.A stylistic approach is adopted to interpret underlying meanings:insanity of the protagonist Pecola and dark sides of American society.Methodically,it is the first time that optics is employed to interpret story,and stylistics can nourish itself from natural sciences.     

The Analysis of Elisa’s Mind Journey from the Prospective of Feminism

John Steinbeck(1902-1968) is a famous American novelist. The Chrysanthemums was considered to be one of his finest short stories which has become progressively more influential in gender studies during the following decades. As the protagonist, Elisa unfolds herself in front of the readers about her rebellion and submission to the reigning patriarchal ideology. In the paper, I try to present Elisa’s mind journey in a male-dominating society, using gender studies analysis. The theme of this story is to describe women’s position in a male-centered and controlled culture. In order to give a most justifiable analysis of the theme of this short story, I base my study of Elisa’s mind journey on the prospective of gender studies.     

Naturalism in The Call of the Wild

Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild is story of transformation in which the old Buck,from civilized,moral to a wild,cruel leader of a packs of wolves.It is a typical American Naturalistic novel.The paper tries to explore three features of Naturalism in the novel,that is,determinism,"survival of the fittest",and heredity in an attempt to understanding the novel better.     

Naturalism in“To build a Fire”

The short story"To build a Fire"by Jack London tells about the relationship between man and nature. Involving such themes as fear, death, and the individual versus nature,‘‘To Build a Fire'is a naturalistic work of fiction in which Jack London depicts human beings as subject to the laws of nature and controlled by their environment and their physical makeup.     

The Techniques of Joseph＇s Characterization in ＂The Story of Joseph＂

The Story of Joseph, from his sold to Egypt to his reunion with his family, is one of the longest stories of ~Thc Old Testament＇. It＇s a story of a young man＇s growth which belongs to the fictional tradition of bildungsroman in the West. This paper explores the techniques of Joseph＇s characterization in the process of Joseph＇s reunion with his brothers.     

Topic for writing：Friendly Enemies——Character analysis of Frank O＇Conner＇s short story of Guest of the Nation

Patricia Robinson once said, ＂in war, hatred and revenge drive out ethical and moral intelligence.＂The short story of ＂Guest of the Nation＂, written by FrankO＇Connor＇s, well confirms such a viewpoint towards war, which is still prevalent in today＇s world. This article, based upon character analysis of the story which is full of conflict all the way through character images, plot arrangements as well as story settings, aims to arouse readers＇ further thinkinq over absurdity of war and value of humanity.     

Birdman: The Devil from the Past

The film Birdman was a great success for its writing, direction, performances and cinematography. It tells the story of a former-famous actor’s struggle to cope with his current life. One continuous take is used to illustrate the actor’s self-search in the setting of a Broadway theater. The experimental style of the film highlights great performances and strengthens emotional tension, which makes it a great production.     

《天堂之路》的情节、结构与风格(英文)

<正> This paper is a study of Dahl's story "The way Up to Heaven" in terms of plot,structure and style,showing his unique mastery of the traditional story-telling techniques and the remarkable narrative fineness of the story by discussing how the incidents are built up and how the story develops and ends.     

Surviving by Dying:A Paradox of Life On Mark Twain’ s Is He Living,or is He Dead

Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain’ s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.     

From "living dead" to "reviving after death"——An Interpretation of The Dead from Gabriel’s Epiphany

James Joyce is one of the greatest pioneers of Modern novel history.The Dead is the most famous story in his early short story collection Dubliners,and is widely recognized as one of the finest short stories in the English language.This study tries to analyze the hero Gabriel’s mind change:from "living dead" to "reviving after death" from his epiphany,indicating that there is merely a delicate line between the two:death is the end of life as well as the beginning of a new life for death actually carries within itself a new life.     

A Stylistics Analysis of Foregrounding in Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Hemingway in 1927. The story of Hills Like White Elephants takesplace in an unknown small railway station in northern Spain. A young couple are waiting for the express to Barcelona. The storystarts the dialogue of the novel, which is simple and easy to understand, but vividly describes the rich inner world of the protagonists.The novel with only a few thousand words vividly shows Hemingway's unique narrative style. Hemingway uses irony, symbolism,semantics level and syntax level to depict the psychological state of characters. The Foregrounding theory of stylistics is usedto analyze the theme text and the style of Hemingway from two aspects—Deviation and Over-Regularity.     

On Cultural Analysis of Baldwin’s Exodus

In the short story Exodus,James Baldwin sought to create a highly personal literature less with racial conflict than with the complexity of human motivations,by briefly contrasting the two processes of exodus,Baldwin achieved this kind of creation,which is to get behind the Negro problem to find the kind of reality that he really concerned:the process of struggle to bettering one’ s lot.