A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of “Broken Verses” by Kamila Shamsie

This study describes the feminist stylistics in Woman at Point Zero novel. Woman at Point Zero is a novel about feminism, woman that demand equality and justice. The methods used is descriptive qualitative. The objective of this study is to find out the word, phrase / sentence, and discourse level presented in gender-specific in Woman at Point Zero novel. The result of this study uncovered the writing style or practice of the said author that has to do with the presentation of gender. Female characters differ from the male in that there are more descriptions given to them which pertain to their thoughts, emotions, experiences, vulnerability towards men, and their physical characteristics. Males, on the other hand, are described according to their physical strength, personalities, attitudes, which dominate females. The novel contains descriptions of women and men focusing on their physique, some of which displaying sensual appeal.

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Perplexity and Predicament: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of A Summer Bird-Cage

10.31235/osf.io/mdy4r ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Xuqin Lin

Keyword(s):

Women Characters ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Research Question ◽

Value Orientations ◽

The Body ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

The Novel ◽

Specialized Knowledge ◽

Lexical Categories ◽

Spatio Temporal

This paper aims to explore the text style of Margaret Drabble’s novel A Summer Bird-Cage. Specifically, it is intended to scrutinize how Drabble’s language style vivifies her representation of some women characters’ perplexity and predicament when they are confronted with problems related to value orientations and lifestyles. The present paper’s significance lies in a methodological breakthrough and resultant interdisciplinary insights. To achieve the main aims specified above, this paper will explore the following research question: stylistically, how some lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and clusters are related to the spatio-temporal order of the novel and to its discourse prosodies or “tone of characters” speeches. As a whole, this study is situated in a research context where previous and many current studies of A Summer Bird-Cage are primarily qualitative. To complement them, this paper embodies mixed methods research, featuring in a computer-aided, data-based, corpus stylistic approach to the style in Drabble’s novel. Based on a multi-layered investigation of Drabble’s language use and a close corpus stylistic analysis of it, this paper obtains some interesting findings as follows. First, some young, educated British women’s complicated psychological experiences are thematized via narratorial introspection that centers around characters’ processing of mind. Second, the tone of the women characters’ speeches and the underlying attitude to some important issues are often negative, indicative of the women characters’ bewilderment. In short, this paper adopts a corpus stylistic approach to thematic studies and character analysis as a contribution to the body of specialized knowledge of Drabble’s art of fiction.

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Perplexity and Predicament: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of A Summer Bird-Cage

Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies ◽

10.24093/awejtls/vol5no1.11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 159-176

Author(s):

Xuqin Lin

Keyword(s):

Women Characters ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Research Question ◽

Value Orientations ◽

The Body ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

The Novel ◽

Specialized Knowledge ◽

Lexical Categories ◽

Spatio Temporal

This paper aims to explore the text style of Margaret Drabble’s novel A Summer Bird-Cage. Specifically, it is intended to scrutinize how Drabble’s language style vivifies her representation of some women characters’ perplexity and predicament when they are confronted with problems related to value orientations and lifestyles. The present paper’s significance lies in a methodological breakthrough and resultant interdisciplinary insights. To achieve the main aims specified above, this paper will explore the following research question: stylistically, how some lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, and clusters are related to the spatio-temporal order of the novel and to its discourse prosodies or “tone of characters” speeches. As a whole, this study is situated in a research context where previous and many current studies of A Summer Bird-Cage are primarily qualitative. To complement them, this paper embodies mixed methods research, featuring in a computer-aided, data-based, corpus stylistic approach to the style in Drabble’s novel. Based on a multi-layered investigation of Drabble’s language use and a close corpus stylistic analysis of it, this paper obtains some interesting findings as follows. First, some young, educated British women’s complicated psychological experiences are thematized via narratorial introspection that centers around characters’ processing of mind. Second, the tone of the women characters’ speeches and the underlying attitude to some important issues are often negative, indicative of the women characters’ bewilderment. In short, this paper adopts a corpus stylistic approach to thematic studies and character analysis as a contribution to the body of specialized knowledge of Drabble’s art of fiction.

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PENGAKUAN CALABAI: SEBUAH ANALISIS INTERTEKSTUAL NOVEL PASUNG JIWA KARYA OKKY MADASARI DAN NOVEL CALABAI KARYA PEPI AL-BAYQUNIE

Jurnal KATA ◽

10.22216/jk.v2i1.3148 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 50

Author(s):

Krisna Aji Kusuma ◽

Herman J Waluyo ◽

Nugraheni Eko Wardani

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Analysis Data ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

The Novel ◽

Research Results ◽

Self Actualization ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The Difference ◽

Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims to describe the intertextuality relationship between the novel Pasung Jiwa by Okky Madasari and Calabai by Pepi Al-Bayqunie. The type of research is descriptive qualitative approach using content analysis. Data are collected by inventorying events that are similarities and differences, specifications on the characters, settings, plots, and themes of both text. The research results indicate that there are similar themes on the two novels, the theme of self actualization in addition with the theme of family and friendship. The same characterization are also used by both author, masculine figures with feminine soul characters. The difference between the two novels lies on the plot and setting. Pasung Jiwa uses progressive plot and Calabai uses a flash-back plot.. Okky Madasari takes Java Island as the background in the novel Pasung Jiwa, while the novel Calabai, Pepi Al-Bayqunie using the setting of Sulawesi Island. The basis of the similarity of theme and characterization supported by the similirity of events in the story shows the existence of intertextual relationship between the two novels. As a previously published work, the novel Pasung Jiwa by Okky Madasari is a hipogram and novel Calabai by Pepi A-Bayqunie as a transformational text. On the theme and characterization, the transformation of Calabai forward the hypogram, while in the plot and setting deviates his hypogram, Pasung Jiwa.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan hubungan intertekstualitas antara novel Pasung Jiwa karya Okky Madasari dan novel Calabai karya Pepi Al-Bayqunie. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan konten analisis. Data dikumpulkan dengan menginventariskan peristiwa yang merupakan persamaan dan perbedaan, spesifikasi pada tokoh, latar, alur, dan tema dari kedua teks. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat kesamaan tema pada kedua novel, yaitu tema aktualisasi diri, ditambah dengan tema keluarga dan persahabatan. Penokohan yang sama juga digunakan oleh kedua penulis, yaitu tokoh maskulin dengan karakter jiwa feminin. Perbedaan kedua novel terletak pada alur dan latar. Pasung Jiwa menggunakan alur maju dan Calabai menggunakan alur campuran. Latar dalam novel Pasung Jiwa, Okky Madasari mengambil latar Pulau Jawa, sedangkan novel Calabai, Pepi Al-Bayqunie menggunakan latar Pulau Sulawesi. Dasar kesamaan tema dan penokohan didukung kesamaan peristiwa-peristiwa dalam cerita menunjukkan adanya hubungan intertekstual antara kedua novel. Sebagai karya yang terbit terlebih dahulu menjadikan novel Pasung Jiwa karya Okky Madasari adalah hipogram dan novel Calabai karya Pepi Al-Bayqunie sebagai teks transformasi. Pada tema dan penokohan, transformasi Calabai meneruskan hipogram, sedangkan pada alur dan latar menyimpangi hipogramnya, Pasung Jiwa.

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A Fast Retrieval of Cloud Parameters Using a Triplet of Wavelengths of Oxygen Dimer Band around 477 nm

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13010152 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 152

Author(s):

Haklim Choi ◽

Xiong Liu ◽

Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad ◽

Jongjin Seo ◽

Kwang-Mog Lee ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Scattered Light ◽

Trace Gas ◽

Retrieval Algorithm ◽

The Novel ◽

Cloud Parameters ◽

Retrieval Scheme ◽

The Difference ◽

The Look ◽

Time Required ◽

Cloud Top Pressure

Clouds act as a major reflector that changes the amount of sunlight reflected to space. Change in radiance intensity due to the presence of clouds interrupts the retrieval of trace gas or aerosol properties from satellite data. In this paper, we developed a fast and robust algorithm, named the fast cloud retrieval algorithm, using a triplet of wavelengths (469, 477, and 485 nm) of the O2–O2 absorption band around 477 nm (CLDTO4) to derive the cloud information such as cloud top pressure (CTP) and cloud fraction (CF) for the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS). The novel algorithm is based on the fact that the difference in the optical path through which light passes with regard to the altitude of clouds causes a change in radiance due to the absorption of O2–O2 at the three selected wavelengths. To reduce the time required for algorithm calculations, the look-up table (LUT) method was applied. The LUT was pre-constructed for various conditions of geometry using Vectorized Linearized Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer (VLIDORT) to consider the polarization of the scattered light. The GEMS was launched in February 2020, but the observed data of GEMS have not yet been widely released. To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, the retrieved CTP and CF using observational data from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2), which cover the spectral range of GEMS, were compared with the results of the Fast Retrieval Scheme for Clouds from the Oxygen A band (FRESCO) algorithm, which is based on the O2 A-band. There was good agreement between the results, despite small discrepancies for low clouds.

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Lack of influence of the antidopaminergic drug domperidone on basal and TRH-stimulated TSH-serum levels after oral administration

Acta Endocrinologica ◽

10.1530/acta.0.1010550 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 101 (4) ◽

pp. 550-554 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

K. W. Wenzel ◽

J. Döring

Keyword(s):

Oral Administration ◽

Thyroid Function ◽

Oral Absorption ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Oral Intake ◽

Serum Levels ◽

The Novel ◽

Antiemetic Drug ◽

First Pass ◽

The Difference

Abstract. Since antidopaminergic drugs are known to elevate basal and TRH-stimulated TSH-serum levels and since this effect was also shown after iv administration of the novel dopamine antagonistic agent domperidone, it was investigated, whether this antiemetic drug could interfere after oral intake with the evaluation of thyroid function. Oral domperidone caused a marked TSH-enhancement of TRH-induced TSH increments in 6 out of 14 euthyroid subjects, with no statistical significance, however. The difference between oral and parenteral influence as well as inter-individual changes are probably due to the varying first pass effect of the drug after oral absorption.

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Bruch’s membrane opening-minimum rim width: An alternative OCT biomarker study for multiple sclerosis

European Journal of Ophthalmology ◽

10.1177/1120672121996638 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 112067212199663

Author(s):

Kemal Turgay Özbilen ◽

Tuncay Gündüz ◽

Selva Nur Çukurova Kartal ◽

Ali Ceyhun Gedik ◽

Mefküre Eraksoy ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Multiple Sclerosis ◽

High Sensitivity ◽

The Novel ◽

Bruch's Membrane ◽

Bruch’S Membrane ◽

Spectral Domain Oct ◽

Neuroretinal Rim ◽

Bruch’S Membrane Opening ◽

The Difference ◽

Therapeutic Decision Making

Purpose: Bruch’s membrane opening-minimum rim width (BMO-MRW) and RNFL measured using anatomic positioning system (APS-RNFL) are novel OCT methods and remained unexplored in MS patients. To investigate the novel parameters of spectral-domain OCT as an alternative biomarker in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: Retrospective cohort study; participants consisted of relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) patients and healthy controls (HC). Eyes were classified according to the presence of MS and previous optic neuritis (ON). Measurements of standard peripapillary RNFL (S-RNFL), BMO-MRW, and APS-RNFL were performed. Result: A total of 244 eyes of 122 participants (MS-patients: 63, HC: 59) were included in the study. Fifty-one eyes had a history of previous ON. In almost all measured parameters, neuroretinal rim thicknesses were observed the thinnest in eyes with ON history between all subgroups. S-RNFL and APS-RNFL techniques showed the difference in neuroretinal rim thickness in all three subjects (ON+, ON−, and HC). However, BMO-MRW, on the other hand, could not distinguish between ON(−) patients and HC. The relationship between OCT parameters and EDSS were observed only in eyes with an ON history in all three techniques. A meaningful model with 78% accuracy was obtained by using only the OCT parameters as risk factors. In the ROC analysis, no parameters were found to have acceptable high sensitivity and specificity. BMO-MRW was statistically weaker in every aspect than other RNFL techniques. Conclusion: The novel APS-RNFL technique appears to be a bit more reliable alternative to S-RNFL technique to support therapeutic decision-making in MS. BMO-MRW has not been found as a successful alternative to S-RNFL.

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Matriarchal Society in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Linguistics and Literature Journal ◽

10.33365/llj.v1i1.223 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 28-33

Author(s):

Teta Irama Setri ◽

Dwi Budi Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Women Characters ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Economic Condition ◽

Literary Work ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

The Novel ◽

Historical Approach ◽

The Past ◽

Library Research ◽

Feminine Divine

This research discusses a novel which written by Sue Monk Kidd entitled The Secret Life of Bees. The writers aims to describe the matriarchal society issue that is often regarded as the opposed of patriarchy. This research aims to answer the question how levels of matriarchal society described in the novel The Secret Life of Bees through women characters in the story. This study applies descriptive qualitative method and typically library research. This research applies socio-historical approach in order to look at the relation between literary work and society’s historical elements that happen in the past. At political level, August character shows as the matriarch or the leader in community with important role for overcoming conflict and decision making process. At economical level, it shows that matriarchal society common practice has right and same position in economic affair and giving gift each other to make the economic condition balance. Last, at spiritual and cultural level, it is described that women characters in The Secret Life of Bees believe in feminine divine which is the Black Mary and doing worship for her. In conclusion, The Secret Life of Bees novel clearly depicts matriarchal society based on the theory of Matriarchy by Heide Göettner-Abendroth.Keyword: The Secret Life of Bees, Matriarchy, Matriarchal Society, Levels of Matriarchal Society, Socio-historical Approach

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Figurative Language in Layla Al-Atrash’s Nesa’a Ala Al-Mafareq: A Stylistic Analysis

Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.53057/linfo/2020.2.4.3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 20-26

Author(s):

Eman Abedelkareem Hijazi ◽

Keyword(s):

Figurative Language ◽

Social Values ◽

Identity Crisis ◽

Narrative Discourse ◽

Stylistic Analysis ◽

The Novel ◽

Arab Woman ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Figurative Speech ◽

Quantitative Approaches

This study aims to analyze Layla Al-Atrash’s Nesa’a Ala Al-Mafareq stylistically to address the issue of an identity crisis and self-alienation by shedding light on the Arabic narrative discourse that is used by Al-Atrash in the selected novel. The stylistic analysis focuses on casting lights on how the five protagonists of the selected novel employed their feminist narrative discourse to represent their suffering and how the old cultural and social values affect their lives. To achieve the aim of the study, the researcher relies on Geffrey Leech's (2006) theory of figurative language to analyze the novel. Accordingly, this study is considered as the first study focusing on analyzing the language used by Al-Atrash linguistically in light of the stylistic analysis of figurative speech such as a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, and metonymy. The researcher used both qualitative and quantitative approaches with (SPSS) program for statistics. The results showed that Al Atrash succeeded in utilizing her feminist narrative discourse linguistically to introduce the catastrophic situation the woman has in the masculine society. Taking into consideration metonyms with the highest rates (189) indicating the problems that the Arab woman encounters without finding a solution. Although hyperbole (126= 23%) refers to the writer's trial to support the readers with the perfect image of a woman’s life and why she surrenders to reality and accepts the outdated conventions and traditions.

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Women in Patriarchy: A Study of Sexual Colonialism in Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10656 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 52-59

Author(s):

Dr. Deepali Sharma

Keyword(s):

Women Characters ◽

Central Character ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

The Novel ◽

Australian Society ◽

Women Of Letters

Colleen McCullough, a famous Australian women novelist, extensively deals with the issue of sexual colonization by exhibiting the fact that this world belongs to men not to women where women suffer and men cause them pain. Meggie, the central character in the novel is shown as the victim, sufferer and the colonized individual and Paddy, Ralph and Luke are shown as the epitome of the British colonizers who misused, misbehaved and degraded the women during their colonial rule. The novelist while sketching women characters does not asseverate as ostensible women of letters but for the delineation of patriarchy in the novel The Thorn Birds which clearly manifests her declivity in the vicinity of the infringement with women in Australian society.

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