This article aims to contribute the discussion of English-language crime fiction by black South African writers before 1994 exploring H.I.E. Dhlomo’s relatively overlooked contribution genre in first decade apartheid. In particular, I intend close read three detective stories written between late 1940s and early 1950s Dhlomo, namely “Village Blacksmith Tragicomedy”, “Flowers”, “Aversion Snakes”...

Imagine a princess asleep in a castle, waiting for her prince to slay the dragon and rescue her. Tales like the famous Sleeping Beauty clearly divide up gender roles. But what about more modern stories, borne of a generation increasingly aware of social constructs like sexism and racism? Do these stories tend to reinforce gender stereotypes, or counter them? In this paper, we present a techniqu...

This paper discusses the incentive to bundle when consumer valuations are nonadditive and/or when products are supplied by separate sellers. Whether integrated or separate, firms have an incentive to introduce a bundle discount when demand for the bundle is elastic relative to demand for stand-alone products. A simple formula is derived for when an integrated firm supplying substitute products ...

Until the year 2000, there was no specific statute enacted in Jordan that regulates unfair competition. In the year 2000, the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law No. 15 of 2000 was enacted. The Law deals with the issue of unfair competition in a very generic way. In addition to the Jordanian Unfair Competition Law, the principal statutory source of protection is implemented through the general rul...

cet article a étudié le statut et les modalités de l'intervention des événements historiques dans la création de l’œuvre très célèbre de louis aragon, le fou d'elsa. nous y avons tout d’abord donné une définition des deux genres, poème et prose, pour voir à quel genre appartient cet ouvrage. après avoir expliqué le phénomène de l'hétérogénéité générique de l’ouvrage, on a vu comment l’auteur a ...

The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis Sorry for and about in the COCA BNC. When it comes COCA, interesting point out that types show same pattern TV/movie fiction genres academic genre, whereas they different blog, web, magazine, newspaper spoken genre. With respect BNC, significant note genre magazine misc, non-academic genres. It can thus be inferred these two a...

Literature is a measure of nation’s spiritual development, as well an expression its and educational experiences. It known that fiction, which embodies great social power, exerts active influence on the expansion human consciousness formulation aesthetic taste. In evolution Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Afghan literature, progression narrative genre toward prose, plot stories, compositional structu...

Network Text Analysis (NTA) involves the creation of networks of words and/or concepts from linguistic data. Its key insight is that the position of words and concepts in a text network provides vital clues to the central and underlying themes of the text as a whole. Recent research has relied on inductive approaches to identify these themes. In this study we demonstrate a deductive approach th...

A t the dawn of the twentyfirst century, young adult literature looks very different than it did fifty years ago. Indeed, fifty years ago, we were just getting started with the likes of Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye (1951), with Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967), Zindel’s The Pigman (1968), and Cormier’s The Choco­ late War (1974) still a gleam in the eye of their literary creators. We have a c...

This paper identifies and discusses the western vernacular and minimalist tendencies in Norman Mailer’s 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning “true-life story” The Executioner’s Song. Mailer’s use of a lean, often flat style of narration is read in relation to Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood to measure the extent to which Mailer moved beyond a conventional novelistic approach. The artic...