abstract the present study is conducted to find various forms of times in two fictional genres “tale” and “minimalist story”, and also to disclose the factors behind the difference of the aforementioned forms in the two mentioned genres. time is represented in the levels of plot, setting, language and the images in various forms. in case of tales, due to the absence or weakness of the plot, the...

minimalist story is a kind of very short story that is summarized sometimes in some lines and sometimes in one page. it tells a short event and in addition includes deep contents.studying verses of holy quran we can see stories in different forms and lengths. meanwhile there are some storiesthat are not more than some lines in lengthso it is possible for the researcher to evaluate these stories...

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...

The Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995–2001) sketches a model that aims to be empirically adequate and theoretically motivated but that does not fit in any clear way with specific performance algorithms such as parsing or generation even though much emphasis is put on “interface properties”. In this paper I propose that a Minimalist Grammar formalization (an extension of Stabler’s 1997 proposal) ...

The essence of standard X-bar theory is that structure building is asymmetric in the sense that a complex structure inherits properties from only one of its constituents. There are some structures, however, that are best analyzed as reflecting the properties of all their constituents. This kind of symmetric projection should in principle be allowed within the minimalist program if the union of ...

This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization USA and warning about dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding reality. To reach his purposes, novelist combines three stylistic strategies. First, he creates story that exposes condition American politics, dangers radicalized correctness,...