George Eliot, well-known as one of greatest realists in the 19th century, weaves multiple narratives her representative work Middlemarch, presenting vividly realistic picture society between 1829 and 1832. The narrative clue love affair Dorothea, Casaubon Will Ladislaw permeates whole story, which attracts attention numerous scholars with fruitful, inspirational studies. However, few numbers de...

this essay examines the practice of free indirect discourse (fid), as a narrative-stylistic device, in hossein sanapour’s lips on a blade (2010). after a brief overview of the novel ’s narrative structure, the four modes of representing characters’ discourses in narrative fiction are introduced and exemplified. among these modes, fid is the most important since it is the only one which leads to...

This paper considers narrative theory in the light of the requirements of a project just started to use stories around the theme of bullying to build empathy in child users and achieve pedagogical objectives. It describes and discusses the theories of Aristotle, Propp and Barthes, and concludes that the approach taken in improvisational drama and human Role playing Games is more appropriate for...

Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk. Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives. This article examines age and medium effects on use of various discourse markers in pre-school children. Fifteen normal Iranian monolingual children, male and female, participated ...

using the narrative poetry to express human and social concerns is one of the commonalities between nima yooshij and khalil matran, the modern persian and arab poets. lots of nima’s poems benefit the narrative aspects. khilil matran is also of the arab poets who have imported the narrative aspects in modern arabic poetry. based on the method of comparative literature, this study has being accom...