A corpus-stylistic approach to Dickens’ use of speech verbs: Beyond mere reporting

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ruano San Segundo
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Stylistic Device

The creation of Dickens’ most memorable characters is partly a result of his talent for endowing them with individual voices and characteristic turns of speech. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the role played by the speech verbs that gloss his characters’ words and the functions they may fulfil. The fact that the characterising potential of these speech verbs has previously been overlooked may be due to their dispersal through the texts and the difficulty of carrying out a close analysis of their role and functions. The use of a corpus methodology allows the systematic retrieval of these verbs and reveals how Dickens consistently uses particular verbs to report the speech of particular characters, thus further projecting character traits. This practice is not an isolated phenomenon but, as an analysis of Dickens’ 14 major completed novels shows, an important stylistic device in his works.

Signs and Arguments in Parmenides B8

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard McKirahan
Keyword(s):  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Enormous Amount

David Sedley recently complained that despite the enormous amount of work on Parmenides in the past generation, the details of Parmenides' arguments have received insufficient attention. It is universally recognized that Parmenides' introduction of argument into philosophy was a move of paramount importance. It is also recognized that the arguments of fragment B8 are closely related. At the beginning of B8, Parmenides asserts that what-is has several attributes; he offers a series of proofs that what-is indeed has those attributes. This article undertakes a close analysis of fragment B8, teasing out the structure of the arguments, and showing what parts of the traditional and new interpretations of Parmenides those arguments do (or do not) support. It presents some surprising conclusions and opens up spaces for new interpretations.

scholarly journals Adrift on the Ocean: a study of K.S. Maniam’s displaced characters

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Philip
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Defined Culture

This paper analyses two plays by Malaysian Indian author K.S. Maniam, examining his ideas about the necessity to rearticulate state-authored, essentialising notions of cultural and ethnic identity towards the creation of a more hybrid and inclusive identity which does not demand allegiance to a single, rigidly defined culture. Maniam’s main concerns in this context will be examined through a close analysis of his plays The Cord and The Sandpit: Womensis. My analysis of these two plays will be framed by the ideas articulated in Maniam’s 2001 paper “The New Diaspora”.

Boris Pavlovich Mansurov and the organization of the Russian presence in Holy Places (1857–1864)

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Andrey N. Allenov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
Policy Program ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Comprehensive Study

We analyze the circumstances of the creation of Russian Palestine, a unique phenomenon of Russian history and culture. The role of one of the main ideologists of the Russian presence in the Holy Land, B.P. Mansurov is shown. The relevance of the work is determined by a comprehensive study of the activities of state structures in organizing Russian pilgrims in the Orthodox East, recreating the stages of work on the Jerusalem project. The lack of research of the first stage of the development of Russian Palestine, insufficient attention to the issue, give the work a histori-ographic novelty. It is shown that the concept of presence in the region appeared in the Naval Ministry under the leadership of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. Attention is drawn to the contribution of B.P. Mansurov in justification and development of the program for the arrangement of Russian infrastructure in Jerusalem, the business of purchasing land and the construction of the Russian Compound. It is substantiated that the proposed by B.P. Mansurov, the project played the role of an important foreign policy program of Russia in the Orthodox East after the end of the Crimean War. It is revealed that the creation of the Russian pilgrimage and church infrastructure in the Holy Land opened a new stage in the development of the Russian presence in the region, strengthened the existing cultural and diplomatic ties between Russia and Palestine.

Improvisation, Transposition, and Elaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 218-270
Author(s):  
Mark Minett
Keyword(s):  
Character Traits ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Causal Chains ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Screen Strategy

Chapter 4 jettisons the standard account of Altman’s “transpositional” script-to-screen strategy, in which he is said to have casually discarded the script in favor of the anarchic possibilities of communal filmmaking. Comparing preproduction scripts with final films, this chapter clearly establishes these films’ “improvisatory ceilings,” revealing the extent to which Altman’s approach depends on retaining rather than rejecting his scripts’ scenic and narrative structures. It is around these causal chains that Altman economizes, rejecting redundancy as well as thematic and dramatic cliché. This makes room for multiple forms of elaboration—including constrained versions of the improvisatory flourishes and reimagining of character traits that underwrite his reputation, but also involving the improvisation of thematic motifs, the multiplication of “middleground” characters, and the creation of affordances for favored stylistic techniques. While Altman’s practices are remarkably consistent throughout the early 1970s, later scripts display interesting innovations anticipating and accommodating Altman’s practice-oriented preferences.

The Sanctuary of a sacred nation: National discourse in the style and décor of the Licheń Sanctuary

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-339
Author(s):  
Piotr Kisiel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
National Discourse ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, located near Konin in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, provides a unique insight into a nationalistic discourse in contemporary Poland. It was created not only as a Catholic shrine but also as a place of patriotic indoctrination. This paper examines not only the architecture and design of the Church and the surrounding Sanctuary, but also the ideas of Rev. Eugeniusz Makulski, the site's founder, and Barbara Bielecka, its architect, in order to understand one of the important currents in a debate on the Polish post-Communist identity. A close analysis of this religious shrine is intended not only to understand this particular site but also to examine how national identity is (re)defined in architecture. As this paper shows, the employment of symbolic devices allows the creation of a coherent story of the Polish nation as a religious community with a history intrinsically linked to the Catholic Church. However, the annexation of the lay sphere (nation) by the sacred one (religion) leads to problematic results when it comes to the universality of the religion and the “nationalization” of the Catholic Church itself.

Bodily Souls? Paradoxical Bodies in Origen’s Theology of Progress

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35
Author(s):  
Lavinia Cerioni
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Abstract This article analyses and discusses the Origenian terminology concerning the creation, existence and resurrection of the body. Starting from a close analysis of the textual evidence, it proposes the working definitions of those terms – such as εἶδος, σῶμα πνευματικὸν, χιτῶνες δερμάτινοι, ὑλικὸν ὑποκείμενον – which constitute the intricate vocabulary of Origen’s doctrine of the body. In particular, it stresses the difference between the εἶδος (corporeal form) and the ὑλικὸν ὑποκείμενον (material substratum). On the one hand, the εἶδος is the corporeal form of the body, which is strictly intertwined with the λογικός and represents the individuality of each intelligence. On the other hand, the ὑλικὸν ὑποκείμενον represents the materiality of the body, which changes according to different qualities and is destined to be eschatologically destroyed. In summary, this article suggests that Origen distinguishes corporeality from materiality, thus envisioning both the destruction of the flesh and the resurrection of the body.

scholarly journals ARCHITECT-BUILDERS IN LONDON AND EDINBURGH, c. 1750–1800, AND THE MARKET FOR EXPERTISE

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
STANA NENADIC
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Individual Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Market Strategies

ABSTRACTEighteenth-century architect-builders were a small group, but important for understanding the market strategies of knowledge-based experts in an age of rapid growth in technical information before the creation of modern professions. This article confronts a teleological historiography of emerging professionalization. It is focused on Robert Mylne and several of his contemporaries in Edinburgh and London, including a number of successful London-based Scots who were active as architects, builders, engineers, and surveyors, and self-styled in all these areas when it suited them. It supplies an account of what it took for building experts to establish themselves and flourish in big cities and the ways in which such experts navigated, controlled, and accommodated an environment of unregulated expertise that largely suited contemporary practitioners. Individual, family, and collective market strategies are examined in detail and the final section is a close analysis of the activities of the Architects Club in the 1790s.

The beauty of Victorian beasts: illustration in the Reverend J. G. Wood's Homes without hands (W. T. Stearn Prize 2012)

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
History Book

The Reverend John George Wood (1827–1889) was a successful popularizer of natural history in the Victorian era. His Illustrated natural history (1853) and Common objects series (1857–1858) have been written about extensively. However, historians have largely ignored his most successful book, Homes without hands, in spite of its exquisite designs and profound connections with natural domesticity. In addition, little research has been conducted on the illustrations that appear across Wood's publications, despite their great popularity during his lifetime. This article examines the creation, popularization and methods of communication of this beautiful natural history book. A work explicitly about animal dwellings, Homes without hands was exceedingly popular during its time, as will be shown through an analysis of previously unpublished impression and sales records from the Longman's publishing archive at Reading University. Furthermore, this article will reveal Wood's use of advanced methods in printing and engraving technologies, which made Homes without hands more accessible to the public, particularly through the use of electrotype. In addition, Wood adapted his illustrations for the sake of uniting pleasing aesthetics with scientific representations. Wood's proactive involvement in the illustrative processes of the book ensured that his vision was fully enacted in the final designs. There were elements of danger and domesticity present throughout Wood's work, which functioned as a method for enticing readership and communicating social and religious messages. This will be revealed through a close analysis of a few specific illustrations. Wood dynamically united illustration and text to create a useful domestic piece of natural history, for and about the home. This article seeks to combine methods of examination of both natural history illustration and literature through the investigation of a single book, to better communicate how works of Victorian natural history functioned as a whole.

“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Symonds
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theater ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rodgers And Hammerstein ◽  
Oscar Hammerstein Ii ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores some of the influence Sondheim’s mentor Oscar Hammerstein II may have had on the composer. With close analysis of the ways in which lyric patterning guided the structure of the music in several Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, the chapter suggests that one of their primary contributions to musical theater was to structure the dramatic dynamic of a show into the score through a use of extended song-form. I note in particular the way this works inCarousel(1945),Allegro(1947), andSouth Pacific(1949). The chapter then speculates about how Sondheim has developed this technique through a modular montaging of scenes and through the creation of palindromic trajectories within a whole show inA Little Night Music(1973) andSunday in the Park with George(1984).

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