Navigating Gendered Literary Texts: A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Characterization in Ali’s The Book of Saladin

The study is based on effective methods of cognitive linguistics to study concept in the system of language. Speech realization of the concept in a literary text is examined as determined in its functions by an author’s idea, genre and style of the text. The research is a timely development of a modal framework notion for a work of literature, which enabled to describe verbalization of the concept as a system of semantic, formal and functional characteristics. The study confirmed that science-fiction novels from the series “Dune” by Frank Herbert are characterized by philosophical depth and complexity of language, while the concepts “garden” and “desert” play the key role in creating ideological and esthetic contents of the novels. The paper contains analyses of the concepts on various levels of the literary text. It is noted that a concept can be examined at the level of language verbalization, at the levels of the text, the hypertext and literary discourse, while concepts are represented on phonetic, lexical and syntactic levels of the language. Concepts in a literary text have a cohesive hypertext function and provide the dialogue of the writer and the reader in literary discourse. The basis of concept realization in F. Herbert’s science-fiction was linguistic and stylistic analysis, referring to the broader context. Research discloses hypertext function of the concept in the literary text to provide communication of the reader and the writer in the literary text. It is discovered that the cultural component of the text of novels is closely connected with verbalization of concepts. Analyses disclosed opposition of the concepts providing the principle of reader’s choice. The study showed that the writer models reader’s perception of heroes and events of novels by creating axiological modality. The paper brings forth conclusions about F. Herbert’s values experiments, the role of the reader in creating the system of values and the connection of axiology with epistemic and deontic modalities semantics.

<i>Scott T. Smith</i> Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England<i>Land and Book: Literature and Land Tenure in Anglo-Saxon England</i>. Scott T. Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. xii+288.

I present a posthumanist approach to literary interpretation using stylistic analysis. It is posthumanist since i) digital cameras/audio-video resources and editing applications prompt multimodal readings of literary works unlikely from human intuition alone; ii) anthropocentrism in literary texts is defamiliarised. I highlight how stylistic analysis can be used productively for developing multimodal creativity in posthumanist reading by motivating audio-video edits and effects. I model using Anne Brontë’s poem ‘Home’ (1846). When read only with intuition, ‘Home’ communicates young Brontë’s yearning for her family home. In contrast, this article has a non-intuitive digital multimodal realisation of this poem where a young Californian stuck in London because of pandemic (Covid-19) travel restrictions yearns for her home state in the aftermath of wildfires linked to anthropogenic climate change. This posthumanist transformative reading, flagging the negative repercussions of humans for their planetary home, defamiliarises the poem’s anthropocentric normality. Importantly, I show how stylistic analysis of ‘Home’ motivates creative use of audio-visual edits and effects in the posthumanist multimodal reading. The article makes contrast with standard interpretive practice in stylistics (‘humanist stylistics’). It also reflects on the value of posthumanist stylistics for extending students’ creative thinking in an educational context.

212 Reviews Francophone Literatures: A Literary and Linguistic Companion. By Malcolm Offord , La'ila Ibnlfassi, Nicki Hitchcott, Sam Haigh, and Rosemary Chapman . London and New York: Routledge. 2001. ix + 283pp. ?60 (pbk ?18.99). ISBN 0-415-19839-9 (pbk 0-415-19840-2). This collection of thirty extracts from key francophone novels since the 1930s? accompanied by textual commentaries?aims to provide an accessible introductory study aid. The books is divided into four major sections (respectively, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, and North America), each of which contains a succinct historical and cultural overview introduced by a different specialist. The chosen, often lengthy, extracts follow on chronologically by date of composition, and have their own bibliography and literary commentary ('Text and Context') provided by the section specialist, followedby a 'Languageand Style' com? mentary provided by Malcolm Offord throughout. Offord's very detailed linguistic and stylistic analyses usefully illustrate the various methodological perspectives from which literary texts can be studied. The short introduction provides a rationale forthe exclusion of theatre and poetry (in order to focus on the novel), explains the choice of texts (based on the availability of set texts), and justifies the geographical limitations (Belgium and Switzerland are excluded) as enabling more detailed thematic analyses. The introduction provides the essential conceptual and methodological definitions for the linguistic and stylistic analyses. However, while the contributors make clear thematic comparisons between texts in their respective sections, the absence of a substantial thematic overview hinders comparisons across sections on (for example) 'space', gender power relations, and the critique of post-independence regimes. Such an overview would have made more explicit the link between culture and politics at the heart of many francophone novels. In her section on North Africa, Laila Ibnlfassi's very diverse and well-chosen range oftexts (among which Chraibi'sLe Passe simple, Nina Bouraoui'sL<2 Voyeuseinterdite, Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable and La Nuit sacree) reveal the extent to which the family condenses power relations present at the level of society as a whole?a theme echoed across all sections of the book. Two texts are also included by writers of Algerian origin born in France (Azouz Begag, Mehdi Charef). Nicki Hitchcott's section on Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean provides accessible explanations on, forexample, the colonial gaze (F. Oyono's Une vie de boy) and the epistolary novel (Miriama Ba's Une si longue lettre). There are some stylistically and linguistically challenging extracts (Ahmadou Kourouma's Les Soleils des independances and Sony Labou Tansi's La Vie et demie) that the commentaries explain very thoroughly. Sam Haigh's section on the Caribbean gives due attention to Haitian literatures (Dany Laferriere ,Jacques Roumain) as well as to those of Martinique and Guadeloupe (Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Conde, Daniel Maximin, Simone Schwarz-Bart, among others), particularly in relation to narratives of history, memory, and resistance in contexts where legacies of slavery and colonialism remain very present. At a textual level, the infusion of Creole is closely analysed throughout. In her section on North America, Rosemary Chapman does seek to link themes from francophone Canadian literatures to those from other, more recent, colonial contexts, notably via Antonine Maillet's Pelagie-la Charrette, which chronicles the Acadians' return to the Bay of Fundy in the 1770s after their forcible expulsion by the English. This collection succeeds in showing the development of francophone literatures from a chronological perspective and thereby constitutes a very timely addition to a growing field. University of Leeds JimHouse ...

The article studies different aspects of linguistic and stylistic analysis of authentic literary text. The author defines such notions as “text” “literary text”, “authentic text”, “linguistic and stylistic analysis”, reveals various approaches to the analysis of authentic literary text and studies the procedure used for teaching Orenburg State University students who specialize in foreign languages and foreign literature how to carry out a relevant and perfect linguistic and stylistic analysis. The author treats an authentic text as a text which native speakers produce for native speakers to perform a certain social function in the linguistic community where it has been produced considering peculiarities of the national culture. Linguistic and stylistic analysis of authentic literary text is defined in the article as a method aimed at studying linguistic means and stylistic devices of different levels according to the functional and aesthetic point of view as well as from the point of view of their correspondence to author’s intention, his individual manner of writing. The author proves the validity of the methodology based on the integration of literary; linguistic; psycholinguistic and communicative approaches (considering psycholinguistic approach as a leading one) and the procedure including preparatory, analytical and reflexive stages. This conclusion has been proved by the results of observations and students’ tests.

The article deals with the problem of increasing the productivity of literature study via various approaches to literary text analysis. The author argues that event-based and compositional approaches can be used from 5th-6ths grade: during this period, students are better at dealing with concrete facts rather than the abstract. Chronotope analysis facilitates the development of students’ ideas about time and space and should be offered in the 9th-11th grades. Image-based analysis (7th-11th grades) helps broaden the understanding of individuals’ internal world. Verbal image analysis best reveals the nature of literature as a verbal art in the 5th-11th grades. Problem- and topic-basedanalysis helps intensify intellectual activity and is most useful in the 9th-11th grades when students develop an interest in important philosophical issues. The highest level of the problem- and topic-based analysis is the conceptual and philosophical analysis (9th-11th grades). The productivity of the learning process increases due to the use of philosophical categories by the students. Structural and stylistic analysis helps realise one of the key principles – the study of literature from a historical and genealogical perspective. Genre analysis is universal and is first offered in the 5th-6th grades. Event-based analysis is useful for short prose texts with one plot line. Compositional analysis – for texts divided into acts and chapters. Chronotope analysis should be used in the case of texts where time and space have an important conceptual meaning. Verbal image analysis is best suited for poetry, fragments of prose texts and drama. Problem- and topic-based analysis as well as the conceptual and philosophical analysis are useful tools for understanding author’s philosophical system. Structural and stylistic analysis helps establish connections between literary material and stylistic processes,whereas genre analysis enables the most comprehensive evaluation of the literary text.

لوحظ ان تطبيق الادب في دورات وسياقات اللغة الانكليزية بوصفها لغتا اجنبية يودي اثرا اساسيا في تعزيز المهارات اللغوية. يمكن استعمال التحليل الاسلوبي الادبي كأداة فعالة لتحسين قدرة المتعلم وتعزيز تصوره وإدراكه في القراءة والكتابة. فعلم الاسلوبية التعليمية هو تخصص يستعمل التحليل الاسلوبي الادبي في تدريس النصوص المكتوبة للمتحدثين باللغة الانكليزية لكونها لغة ثانية وذلك لإدراك فهم افضل لمعنى الادب وتحسين اكتساب اللغة. &#x0D; ان الدراسة عبارة عن محاولة لتطبيق الاسلوبية التعليمية لتدريس الشعر كأداة لتحسين وتعزيز معرفة الطلاب بتعلم اللغة الانكليزية . فالأنشطة التربوية في الصف تحفز وعي الطلاب وكفاءتهم حول كيفية تنظيم اللغة واستعمالها مع عرض للعمليات الذهنية لفهم المعنى. ان الدراسة الحالية تهدف الى الاجابة على الاسئلة الرئيسية الاتية:&#x0D; &#x0D; ما العلاقة بين الاسلوب والادب؟ ولماذا تستعمل النصوص الادبية في تدريس اللغة؟&#x0D; هل تطبيق الاسلوبية التعليمية بكونها فرعا من الاسلوبية مثمر وفعال في تعزيز وعي الطلاب في تعلم اللغة الانكليزية؟&#x0D; &#x0D; لقد اظهرت الدراسة ان الاساليب التعليمية تسهم في تعزيز عملية تعلم اللغة واستيعابها من خلال النص الادبي. كما يرى ان حدس الطلاب ودوافعهم ومعرفتهم اللغوية والنحوية تزداد بالأنشطة التعليمية الاسلوبية (قبل واثناء وبعد القراءة) ولاسيما عند اعطائهم دورات تحليلية للأدوات الاسلوبية, وان ذلك ينجم عنة مزيد من الفرص والتشجيع المستمر لتعميق ادائهم ومهاراتهم التعليمية

This study investigates the correlation between stylistic features and thematic development in Percival Everett's James (2024) through an innovative integration of traditional stylistic analysis with fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). The research examines four primary stylistic elements metaphors, symbolism, imagery, and sentence structure and their relationship to four thematic categories: struggle, hope versus despair, freedom, and confinement. Using a mixed-method approach, the study combines qualitative textual analysis with quantitative correlation analysis to evaluate the strength of stylistic-thematic relationships. Data analysis reveals strong to very strong correlations between specific stylistic features and themes, with metaphors most strongly correlated with struggle (r = 0.85), symbolism with hope versus despair (r = 0.80), imagery with freedom (r = 0.78), and short sentences with confinement (r = 0.76). The findings demonstrate that linguistic elements function as essential tools for thematic coherence rather than merely decorative devices, providing empirical evidence for systematic relationships between form and meaning in literary texts. By integrating fsQCA methodology with literary analysis, this research offers a replicable framework for future stylistic studies while contributing to methodological innovation in digital humanities and computational literary analysis.

The article notes a marked preference given by the philological investigations of the last decades for the discourse-centered approach to analyzing a literary text, a poetic text in particular. The major idea that makes the sense and pathos of this&#x0D; publication is that the text-centered approach, as distinct from the discourse-centered one and applied much less frequently, is feasible due to the fact that any «high-grade»&#x0D; literary text is of value by itself: its faultless perception and correct assessment by the recipient do not require involvement of cultural and historic context and appeal to&#x0D; the broad literary context. Moreover, the first and foremost condition of the existence of a unique cultural&#x0D; artifact, i.e. a quality literary text, is nothing but its formal and semantic self-dependence, therefore it is self-containment, that is autonomy. The prime example is Joseph Brodsky’s 16-line poetic miniature «She Puts on&#x0D; the Stockings and Fall Comes...» written in 1994. It undergoes a deep line-by-line semantic and stylistic analysis with a focus on the parameters demonstrating the choice of a dominant sensory canal (vision, audition, partly smell), an object of poetic&#x0D; description (a portrait, landscape, indoor scenes), a dynamic / static description. The article has noted the textual semantic «frame» reflecting expressly realistic impres-&#x0D; sions; at the same time, everything embraced by the «frame» reflects the inner world of the character, his flash-back, doubts, self-reflection, emotions. The conclusion of the paper is as follows: the author’s literary skill, his technique, mastery of the language means and control of speech including its «accelera-&#x0D; tion» and «moderation», individual poetic taste and intuition are all embodied in the literary result that needs no special search for any extra-textual links and their obligatory involvement in the perception and comprehension of the text. Brodsky’s&#x0D; poem is not an only literary example; it clearly demonstrates a case when the poet, without too much effort, manages «to button up the beauty», i.e. the aesthetic dominant of his personal world (outlook), art, senses, thoughts, soul, «in the dark tower&#x0D; of poem» (Pasternak), turn this dominant into something hermetic and intimate, and on the other hand open to an attentive reader.

This article seeks to demonstrate how socially relevant linguistic analysis, using a sufficiently ‘extravagant’ theoretical framework, can provide a founded argument for the value of particular literary texts – and more generally the social, cultural and intellectual worth of literature – in a school curriculum. Through a stylistic analysis using Systemic Functional Grammar of a poem by one of Singapore’s foremost writers, it examines how its language patterns artistically coalesce into a secondary patterning to encode important socio-historical information and thematic issues of relevance to National Education, a key concern of Singapore schools. Thus, it reveals and suggests how literature can be used to meet this concern, as well as another key concern, the stimulation of critical and creative thinking, while simultaneously enhancing awareness of the power of language in the construction of meaning. In so doing, it suggests how literature should have a central place in the school curriculum.

Stylistics plays a key role in interpreting pieces of literary writing. It is considered to be the most appropriate and principled approach to study literary texts regarding its comprehensive naturethat tries to link two disciplines, linguistics and literary criticism.Focusing on the various linguistic features of texts, stylistics seemsto be a powerful tool that- if used properly- can endorse Englishas Foreign Language (EFL) students to analyze and appreciate literature in all its manifestations in a practical and objective way.The present paper aims at showing the effectiveness of opting forthe stylistic analysis in the EFL context. It also attempts to accentuate the significance of the aforementioned approach in facilitating learning literature and making it an enjoyable task for bothteachers and learners as well. The overall goal of this research is toinvestigate whether stylistics is an effective and relevant approachto analyze literary texts.

We associate the relevance of addressing the problem of the colloquial speech usage within the framework of a literary text and, in general, the consideration of individual techniques for creating colloquiality in the text with the need to determine the range of colloquial vocabulary use by masters of the word. Colloquiality is one of the most striking features of everyday speech related to spontaneity in communication. In everyday speech behavior of native speakers, colloquial speech clearly demonstrates both a function of communication and an expressive function. Colloquial speech is traditionally widely used by writers in a literary text to create a characters’ speech portrait and increase the impact of the author’s speech in works of fiction. The representatives of modern women’s Russian prose are no exception. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of creating colloquiality in a literary text in the works of outstanding authors of modern women’s prose. The study is based on V. Tokareva’s novella “Nothing Special”. This article uses descriptive and structural methods, as well as the method of linguistic and stylistic analysis in the study of the literary text. Particular attention is paid to individual techniques used for creating colloquialities in the text. We have come to the conclusion that V. Tokareva strives to bring the narrative closer to real life, to increase the expression of the narrative; therefore, she actively uses the elements of colloquial speech.

This article focuses on revealing structural and syntactic properties of author`s digression in English literary prose of the XIX-XX centuries. Convergent and divergent types of inserting author`s digression into literary space of the text have been distinguished based on syntactic and stylistic analysis. In philological works on composition theory of a literary text the author’s speech and the image of the author were shown in different aspects. The author’s digressions, their functions and communication strategies of their inserting to the semantic space of a literary text were not sufficiently explained from the point of view of a linguo-pragmatic and communicative-functional approaches. The object of the work is the author`s digression in English literary prose of the XIX-XX centuries The subject of the study is the stylistic and compositional speech forms of the author’s digression. The material of the research is the fiction texts of the XIX-XX centuries. The purpose of the work is to systematize and classify the author’s digression in English literary prose from the standpoint of an integrated approach that is oriented to identify their linguo-pragmatic properties. The study allowed us to establish the syntactic and stylistic types of the author’s digression: convergent digression, divergent and convergent-divergent digression. The convergent author’s digression is characterized by expressivity such, kind of digression distracts the attention of the addressee from the main plot of the text and stimulates the reflection. The convergent author’s digression is presented in the literary texts under analysis mainly in the form of philosophical reflection. The divergent author’s digression explicates the image of the author as a creative linguistic personality realizing his/her creative potential by expanding the boundaries of the depicting of the object, that demands from the reader to think over different aspects in different directions. The divergent author’s digression presented in the literary texts under analysis mainly in the form of a description or an aphoristic maxim, creates compositional semantic coherence of the text and focuses the attention of the addressee on the necessary information. The method of the mixed mode of organizing the expressions (utterances) of the author’s digression in the literary space of the text speaks of the addresser as an informed, confident, creative linguistic personality who not only offers the addressee the theme for reflection, but also affects the formation of his own point of view.

This research presented the stylistic analysis of a poem by Maya Angelou, Equality. The poem was chosen as it became Angelou’s one of well-known poems. The Stylistic analysis aimed at comprehending the meanings of either literary or non-literary text by means of observing the language device used in the texts. In this article, the stylistic analysis was conducted to analyze Maya Angelou’s Equality. To achieve the goal of stylistic analysis, there were some language levels to observe; they were phonological, graphological, grammatical, and semantic levels. In the phonological level, the repetition of rhyme in some stanzas, assonance, consonance, and alliteration were used to voice Angelou’s dream about freedom for black people. In the graphological level, the use of prominent punctuation in stanzas 3, 6, and 9 stressed equality as the requirement for the freedom she expected. In the grammatical level, Angelou used pronoun I and you as the dominant words in the poem, revealed different class the poet experienced in the country. The use of metaphors in the poem brought the same meaning as freedom, voice, effort, and racism that black people experienced in America. This research concludes that stylistics applies to analyze literary work so that thorough appreciation to it can be achieved.

Alma Maksimiliana Karlin (1889–1950) was born in Celje 130 years ago. Since the mid 1920s, she was considered an important world traveler and by the end of World War II Alma Karlin became a very popular and notable German writing author. The volume provides research findings on the linguistic and stylistic aspects as well as some others specific features of Karlin’s literary heritage. The papers are classified according to theoretical, methodological and empirical background and devided into three sections. The contributions in the first part discuss the possibilities of different ap-proaches to studing literary and aesthetic characteristics in Karlin’s select-ed works. Dejan Kos (Maribor) illustrates how Alma M. Karlin’s texts are characterized by an empathetic tendency to transcend the boundaries of her own world through aesthetics and spirituality. The discussion by Sylvia Brä-sel (Erfurt) shows that Karlin does not merely convey knowledge about the world and reflects on entertaining, foreign, and exotic, but also systematically re-presents herself. Alenka Jensterle-Doležal (Prague) describes the ways in which women’s roles and identities are constructed in the novel Svetlikanje v mraku. The analysis of style and language reveals that the author critically asseses woman’s life in a patriarchal society, while advocating racist judgments and prejudices of the time. The article by Melania Larisa Fabčič (Maribor) focuses on Karlin’s autobiography and her style, which is primarily constructed through reflection of emotions, recognized by the reader even when the text does not explicitly demonstrate them. The texts in the second part focus on different approaches of Alma M. Karlin’s textual style. Vida Jesenšek (Maribor) transparently presents the complexity of the author’s style. By implying linguistic, pragmatic and cognitive aspects, the research identifies the connections and mutual correlations between general principles of text’s structure, specific stylistic »meanings« and substantive textual aspects. Inge Pohl (Schwieberdingen) presents the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of the novel Windlichter des Todes, focusing on the archi-tectonic, structure and composition of literary characters and highlightening the function of the narrative perspective and the narrative structure. One of the most outstanding feautres of Alma M. Karlin’s literary texts is conveing emotions. In her research, Hana Bergerová (Ústí nad Labem) demonstrates that Karlin’s describes emotions in different, explicit and implicit, ways. The papers in the third part examine the creative use of language in Alma M. Karlin’s selected works. The reader notices linguistic creativity when rec-ognizing those linguistic meanings or devices in a text which seem unusual, unexpected, or deviating from expected. Urška Valenčič Arh (Ljubljana) studies the use of phraseological expressions in Der blaue Mond’s and compares the original to the Slovene translation. Alja Lipavic Oštir (Maribor) resarches travel texts with a particular emphasis on geographical names. Simona Štavbar (Ma-ribor) proceeds from the assumption that Karlin’s geobiographical texts contain evaluating statements which reinforce social prejudices. It is not surprising, therefore, that there are numerous euphemisms and dysphisms which Karlin uses to »indirectly« denote things, people, and events, concealing or empha-sizing certain judgments. Karlin’s creativity is also reflected in the effective use of word-formations. Inge Pohl (Schwieberdingen) studies neologisms in the novel Windlichter des Todes and describes the word-forming patterns used by Karlin to attract readers’ attention but which also demonstrate her exceptional knowledge of German. The volume offers a scholarly insight into a number of previously unexplored topics related to language and style of Alma M. Karlin’s literary works and outlines possibilities for further researches.