Yossarian is the hero in Catch-22 written by Joseph Heller in 1961,bearing the typical"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.This paper aims at giving some of the examples to mak...Yossarian is the hero in Catch-22 written by Joseph Heller in 1961,bearing the typical"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.This paper aims at giving some of the examples to make readers clearer of the Black Humor and more familiar with the"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.展开更多
American novelist Philip Roth demonstrated admiration for and intimacy with Joseph Conrad’s works.Testimonies abound of Roth’s direct and oblique references to Conrad’s novels.A close and comparative reading of Rot...American novelist Philip Roth demonstrated admiration for and intimacy with Joseph Conrad’s works.Testimonies abound of Roth’s direct and oblique references to Conrad’s novels.A close and comparative reading of Roth’s American Pastoral and Conrad’s Lord Jim reveals the intertextuality between the two novels in three aspects:narrative techniques,characterization and the protagonist’s tragedy.By incorporating Conrad’s Lord Jim into the fabric of American Pastoral through intertextuality,Roth rewrites Jim’s story in a new historical and social context,throwing new light on the canonical work and revealing the dilemma and tragedy of American Jewish immigrants in their pursuit of American Dream.展开更多
Cooperative Principle was first proposed by American linguist H.P.Grice.It is the regularity in conversation,which means make your conversational contribution such as is required,at the stage at which it occurs,by the...Cooperative Principle was first proposed by American linguist H.P.Grice.It is the regularity in conversation,which means make your conversational contribution such as is required,at the stage at which it occurs,by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.Anti-hero is a concept opposed to a traditional hero,whose characteristics are totally contrary to traditional aestheticism.Lack of the noble beliefs and goals in life,anti-heroes are often pessimistic and eccentric.The movie Kingsman is directed by Matthew Vaughn,whose story is aroundthe protagonist Eggsy.The focus of study is characteristic subversion from a common person to a hero.At present,most of the researches at home and abroad only focus on the characteristics of anti-heroes or from the aspect of violenceaesthetics or the film literature analysis,there is few analysis of the film language charm,and even fewer studies analyzethis movie from the perspective of linguistics.In this paper,the corpus is selected from Kingsman.Firstly,it introduces the concept of CP and the anti-hero as well as the related researches in recent years.It aims to analyze the anti-heroic characteristics of Eggsy through literature and theoretical analysis,and CP as a theoretical framework.Therefore the literary significance of Kingsman can be found and“heroes”will be redefined.展开更多
Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing ...Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the stories from different figures' visual angles.The novel features tragic content with comic form,anti-hero and illogical narrative structure.Catch-22,which no one can get out of,is not a simple rule;in other words,it's really a snare and this no-win situation exists in every corner of people's daily time.展开更多
As the world-famous Queen of Crime,Agatha Christie not only won great honor for detective fiction but also made a significant contribution towards helping popular novels step into the palace of elegant culture.The met...As the world-famous Queen of Crime,Agatha Christie not only won great honor for detective fiction but also made a significant contribution towards helping popular novels step into the palace of elegant culture.The methods like analysis and contrast are used in this paper to analyze its unique artistic value of her detective works from the artistic technique employed and her antiheroic qualities as a feminine detective fiction writer.展开更多
It analyses an excerpt from the post-modern novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.Through transitivity analysis and cohesion analysis,it finds that the novelist Kurt Vonnegu...It analyses an excerpt from the post-modern novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.Through transitivity analysis and cohesion analysis,it finds that the novelist Kurt Vonnegut uses passive voice and the image of the moon to enhance the passivity and insanity of the anti-hero Bill Pilgrim respectively.Moreover,the fact that there is only one conjunction helps to form the feature of fragmentedness of the postmodern novel.展开更多
文摘Yossarian is the hero in Catch-22 written by Joseph Heller in 1961,bearing the typical"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.This paper aims at giving some of the examples to make readers clearer of the Black Humor and more familiar with the"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.
文摘American novelist Philip Roth demonstrated admiration for and intimacy with Joseph Conrad’s works.Testimonies abound of Roth’s direct and oblique references to Conrad’s novels.A close and comparative reading of Roth’s American Pastoral and Conrad’s Lord Jim reveals the intertextuality between the two novels in three aspects:narrative techniques,characterization and the protagonist’s tragedy.By incorporating Conrad’s Lord Jim into the fabric of American Pastoral through intertextuality,Roth rewrites Jim’s story in a new historical and social context,throwing new light on the canonical work and revealing the dilemma and tragedy of American Jewish immigrants in their pursuit of American Dream.
文摘Cooperative Principle was first proposed by American linguist H.P.Grice.It is the regularity in conversation,which means make your conversational contribution such as is required,at the stage at which it occurs,by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.Anti-hero is a concept opposed to a traditional hero,whose characteristics are totally contrary to traditional aestheticism.Lack of the noble beliefs and goals in life,anti-heroes are often pessimistic and eccentric.The movie Kingsman is directed by Matthew Vaughn,whose story is aroundthe protagonist Eggsy.The focus of study is characteristic subversion from a common person to a hero.At present,most of the researches at home and abroad only focus on the characteristics of anti-heroes or from the aspect of violenceaesthetics or the film literature analysis,there is few analysis of the film language charm,and even fewer studies analyzethis movie from the perspective of linguistics.In this paper,the corpus is selected from Kingsman.Firstly,it introduces the concept of CP and the anti-hero as well as the related researches in recent years.It aims to analyze the anti-heroic characteristics of Eggsy through literature and theoretical analysis,and CP as a theoretical framework.Therefore the literary significance of Kingsman can be found and“heroes”will be redefined.
文摘Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the stories from different figures' visual angles.The novel features tragic content with comic form,anti-hero and illogical narrative structure.Catch-22,which no one can get out of,is not a simple rule;in other words,it's really a snare and this no-win situation exists in every corner of people's daily time.
文摘As the world-famous Queen of Crime,Agatha Christie not only won great honor for detective fiction but also made a significant contribution towards helping popular novels step into the palace of elegant culture.The methods like analysis and contrast are used in this paper to analyze its unique artistic value of her detective works from the artistic technique employed and her antiheroic qualities as a feminine detective fiction writer.
文摘It analyses an excerpt from the post-modern novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.Through transitivity analysis and cohesion analysis,it finds that the novelist Kurt Vonnegut uses passive voice and the image of the moon to enhance the passivity and insanity of the anti-hero Bill Pilgrim respectively.Moreover,the fact that there is only one conjunction helps to form the feature of fragmentedness of the postmodern novel.
