It analyses an excerpt from the post-modern novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.Through transitivity analysis and cohesion analysis,it finds that the novelist Kurt Vonnegu...
American novelist Philip Roth demonstrated admiration for and intimacy with Joseph Conrad’s works.Testimonies abound of Roth’s direct and oblique references to Conrad’s novels.A close and comparative reading of Rot...
Cooperative Principle was first proposed by American linguist H.P.Grice.It is the regularity in conversation,which means make your conversational contribution such as is required,at the stage at which it occurs,by the...
Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye has aroused various disputes after its publication.Either standing on the bestseller list or got banned from reach of juveniles,the book could hardly define a definite position for l...
The Catcher in the Rye made a great sensation when published in 1951.It was regarded as the banned book by many communities and schools,but was popular among teenagers.This paper intends to analyze the anti-heroism in...
Catch-22,which is written by Joseph Heller,can be recognized as the "Modern Classic" of American literature,and this fiction uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration,describing the storie...
Yossarian is the hero in Catch-22 written by Joseph Heller in 1961,bearing the typical"anti-hero"feature of Black Humor in postmodernism literary fiction.This paper aims at giving some of the examples to make readers ...
Yossarian,the protagonist of Catch-22,lives in a marginal position and in the dilemma,and he has done many ridiculous things to keep alive.But basically Yossarian is still kind-hearted.He is an upright man and very co...
As the world-famous Queen of Crime,Agatha Christie not only won great honor for detective fiction but also made a significant contribution towards helping popular novels step into the palace of elegant culture.The met...