The article considers the change of points view narrator and characters in novel Jacob’s Ladder by L. Ulitskaya, which is characterized polyphony combination different narrative situations. By analyzing composition specific paragraphs novel, main text forms that reflect characters’ are summarized: old letters diaries, their dialogues, internal monologues, as well texts seems to be standing behi...

The paper considers the metanarrative (exegetical) and metafictional (diegetical) aspects of a work, ways author’s contacts with reader/listener. nature addressing may be direct, which implies explicit addressee, hidden, designed for implicit addressee. latter is present as an ideal recipient who perceives aesthetic mode work. strategy intimate connection reader based on ascending evaluative di...

There is always a distance between the narrator and story. Narrative Distance can be of varying degrees. The objective current study to explore how narrative discourse employed by Khaled Hosseini in novel “The Kite Runner”. Genette’s (1980) model provides theoretical framework for research as attempts analyze narrated speech, transposed speech reported apply narration Runner.

A novel speech waveform generation method using a nonmaximally decimated filter bank is proposed, where spectral features of synthetic sounds are created by amplitude modification of subband samples that are pre-decomposed from impulse or noise waveforms. The proposed method uses two synthesis banks of the maximally decimated pseudo quadrature mirror filter (QMF) bank structure which is similar...

Research on automatic recognition of named entities from Arabic text uses techniques that work well for the Latin based languages such as local grammars, statistical learning models, pattern matching, and rule-based techniques. These techniques boost their results by using application specific corpora, parallel language corpora, and morphological stemming analysis. We propose a method for extra...

In terms of sign systems and the way they are used, the experience of the interactive resembles nothing else so much as it resembles the experience of narrative. Narrative is best understood as a relationship between a Teller and a Listener, a relationship that is formal, moral and structural. The interactive reframes acts of narrative from re-counts and re-presentations towards simulation and ...

Configuring whiteness as contagion, Birdie Lee, the narrator of Danzy Senna’s Caucasia, connects assimilation to illness and disease. Separated from her African American activist father, Birdie Lee and her blue-blooded mother flee from the law in a racialized and radicalized 1970s Boston. Eventually, the two take up residence in New Hampshire, where Birdie passes as "Jesse"and for white. This a...

This paper argues that corpus stylistics can contribute methodologies and concepts to support the investigation of character information in fiction. Focusing on Charles Dickens, the paper looks at lexicogrammatical patterns as well as places in the literary text. It suggests that clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, and suspensions, i.e. interruptions of charactersÿ speech by the narrato...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories in the Sherlock Holmes series, yet only two are told from the narrative perspective of Holmes himself. I attempted to compare and contrast Holmes’ narration in The Blanched Soldier and The Lion’s Mane with Watson’s narration in A Study in Scarlet. I explored narratological theories and previous research done on Watson’s narration in order to find an...