Language features in The naked and the dead

As to the theme of human nature, there are many scholars and critics approaching The naked and the dead from different perspectives. This paper aims to analyze this theme from the writer＇s skills in manipulating language, presenting his characters＇ true states of mind. In the novel, Mailer skillfully chooses words and sentences with connotations to expose their human nature. With his choice of words, Mailer further molds his characters, investing them with the richest personalities. By the choice of words, Norman Mailer displays the richest personalities in his characters, disclosing the degeneration of human beings.

Two and a Half Thousand Years of Navigation on the Dead Sea

Today there is a single ship on the Dead Sea:a vessel that makes monthly research cruises.But in earlier periods many kinds of boats sailed the waves of the saltiest of all lakes.Stone and wooden anchors found on the newly

The Beauty of Dialogic Language——Pragmstylistic Analysis in The Dead

The content belongs to the multidisciplinary study of cross-linguistics and literature. And it takes The Dead as the text,the speech act and the principle of cooperation in the Pragmstylistic theory as the basic research framework,aiming to explore how the corresponding maxims are destroyed in different dialogues.Thus inferring the implication of the text and the relationship of thecharacters.

A Warm Death Trip——An Interpretation of The Great Blue Yonder from the Dead Children Narrative Perspective

When it comes to the death,it can be gruesome or be dolente.However,the death also can be warm and be a new start of life.It is because we regard the death from different perspective that we show different attitude to the death.The novel The Great Blue Yonder which described the experience of the little protagonist died as a ghost wandering in the mortal world interpreted the death by fairy tale.In his wandering trip,he experience not only tears but also laughter.The more important experience he realized was that he took a new look at love and comprehended the significance of life.Because of the dislocation between narrative perspective and narrative contents,the abnormal narrative perspective owns the unique artistic charm.This thesis aims to interpret the Great Blue Yonder by taking the abnormal narrative perspective as the point of view from the dual narrative perspective of the ghosts and the children.The abnormal narrative perspective is endowed with the unique aesthetic effect because of its own aesthetic properties.It will make a great fresh aesthetic feast to readers.

A Second Rung on the Ladder:Appraising the Jacob’s Ladder 2019 Remake

This paper compares the original 1990 cult film,Jacob’s Ladder,directed by Adrian Lyne,to the 2019 remake,directed by David Rosenthal.In 2015 we published an article using The Tibetan Book of the Dead as a mechanism for interpreting the original 1990 film.We believed then and do now that The Tibetan Book of the Dead provides the most comprehensive and interesting interpretation of the original film.We were anxious,then,to see how the 2019 remake dealt with concepts like enlightenment,attachment,the bardo,and other ideas from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.In the end,we decided that while the remake has many similarities with the original,the 2019 version of the film does not lend itself to interpretation using The Tibetan Book of the Dead.