scholarly journals An Analysis of Iceberg Theory in Hills like White Elephants by Hemingway

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Saiyu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Writing Theory ◽  
Concrete Elements

Iceberg Theory is Hemingway’s unique writing theory. It presents readers how the most succinct writing style can create the strongest interaction. The thesis condensed the abstract concept of Iceberg Theory into concrete elements such as dialogues, wordings, sentence structure, narration, and etc. In order to assist people to understand the abstract implications and expressiveness of the theory. The analysis of the Iceberg Theory is carried out based on the short story Hills like White Elephants.

scholarly journals A Self-Supervised Representation Learning of Sentence Structure for Authorship Attribution

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Jafariakinabad ◽  
Kien A. Hua
Keyword(s):  
Structural Information ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Vector Representation ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Neural Models ◽  
Syntactic Information ◽  
Classification Tasks

The syntactic structure of sentences in a document substantially informs about its authorial writing style. Sentence representation learning has been widely explored in recent years and it has been shown that it improves the generalization of different downstream tasks across many domains. Even though utilizing probing methods in several studies suggests that these learned contextual representations implicitly encode some amount of syntax, explicit syntactic information further improves the performance of deep neural models in the domain of authorship attribution. These observations have motivated us to investigate the explicit representation learning of syntactic structure of sentences. In this article, we propose a self-supervised framework for learning structural representations of sentences. The self-supervised network contains two components; a lexical sub-network and a syntactic sub-network which take the sequence of words and their corresponding structural labels as the input, respectively. Due to the n -to-1 mapping of words to their structural labels, each word will be embedded into a vector representation which mainly carries structural information. We evaluate the learned structural representations of sentences using different probing tasks, and subsequently utilize them in the authorship attribution task. Our experimental results indicate that the structural embeddings significantly improve the classification tasks when concatenated with the existing pre-trained word embeddings.

scholarly journals The Urewera Notebook: Scholarly edition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rose Anna O'Rorke Plumridge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Native Flora ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
The Social ◽  
John Middleton Murry

<p>This thesis is a scholarly edition of Katherine Mansfield’s Urewera Notebook. The General Introduction summarises the purpose to which the notebook has been put by previous editors and biographers, as evidence for Mansfield’s happiness or unhappiness in New Zealand throughout 1906-8. It then offers an overview of the historical context in which the notebook was written, in order to demonstrate the social complexity and geographical diversity of the terrain that Mansfield covered during her 1907 camping holiday. This is followed by an analysis of Mansfield’s attitudes towards colonials, Maori and the New Zealand landscape. Mansfield’s notebook is permeated by a sense of disdain for colonials, especially when encountered as tourists, but also a fascination with ‘back-block ’settlers and a sense of camaraderie with her travelling companions. Mansfield repeatedly romanticised Maori as a noble ‘dying race’ with a mythic past, but was also insightfully observant of the predicament of Maori incontemporary colonial society. Her persistent references to European flora, fauna and ‘high culture’, and her delight in conventionally picturesque English gardens, reveal a certain disconnect from the New Zealand landscape, yet occasional vivid depictionsof the country hint at a developing facility for evokingNew Zealand through literature.In the Textual Introduction I discuss the approaches of the three prior editors of the notebook: John Middleton Murry polished, and selectively reproduced, the Urewera Notebook, to depict Mansfield as an eloquent diarist; Ian A. Gordon rearranged his transcription and couched it within an historical commentary which was interspersed with subjective observation, to argue that Mansfield was an innate short story writer invigorated by her homeland. Margaret Scott was a technically faithful transcriber who providedaccuracy at the level of sentence structure but whoseminimal scholarly apparatus has madeher edition of the notebook difficult to navigate,and has obscured what Mansfield wrote. I have re-transcribed the notebook, deciphering many words and phrases differently from prior editors. The Editorial Procedures are intended as an improvement on the editorial methods of prior editors.The transcription itself is supported by a collation of all significant variant readings of prior editions. Arunning commentary describesthe notebook’s physical composition, identifies colonial and Maori people mentioned in the text, and explains ambiguous historical and literary allusions, native flora and fauna,and expressions in Te Reo Maori. The Itinerary uses historical documents to provide a factually accurate description of the route that Mansfield followed, and revises the itinerary suggested by Gordon in 1978. A biographical register explains the social background of the camping party. This thesis is based on fresh archival research of primary history material in the Alexander Turnbull Library, legal land ownership documents at Archives New Zealand, historical newspapersand information from discussions with Warbrick and Bird family descendants.A map sourced from the Turnbull Cartography Collection shows contemporary features and settlements, with the route of the camping party superimposed. Facsimiles of pages from the notebook are included to illustrate Mansfield’s handwriting and idiosyncratic entries. Photographs have been selected from Beauchamp family photograph albums at the Turnbull, from the Ebbett Papers at the Hawke’s Bay MuseumTheatre Gallery, and from private records.</p>

scholarly journals Identification of Urdu Ghazal Poets using SVM

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-944
Author(s):  
Nida Tariq ◽  
Iqra Ijaz ◽  
Muhammad Kamran Malik ◽  
Zubair Malik ◽  
Faisal Bukhari
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
K Nearest Neighbors ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Urdu Literature ◽  
Vector Machines ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Feature Selection Techniques

Urdu literature has a rich tradition of poetry, with many forms, one of which is Ghazal. Urdu poetry structures are mainly of Arabic origin. It has complex and different sentence structure compared to our daily language which makes it hard to classify. Our research is focused on the identification of poets if given with ghazals as input. Previously, no one has done this type of work. Two main factors which help categorize and classify a given text are the contents and writing style. Urdu poets like Mirza Ghalib, Mir Taqi Mir, Iqbal and many others have a different writing style and the topic of interest. Our model caters these two factors, classify ghazals using different classification models such as SVM (Support Vector Machines), Decision Tree, Random forest, Naïve Bayes and KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors). Furthermore, we have also applied feature selection techniques like chi square model and L1 based feature selection. For experimentation, we have prepared a dataset of about 4000 Ghazals. We have also compared the accuracy of different classifiers and concluded the best results for the collected dataset of Ghazals.

scholarly journals Location of Self Identity --A Freudian Psycho-Analysis of the Protagonist in I Want to Know Why

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Gao Jing ◽  
Song Wei
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Contemporary American Literature ◽  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Spiritual World

Sherwood Anderson plays a signifcant role and regards as a signpost in the transitional period contemporary American literature. Moreover, Anderson's writing style exerts a great influence on other writers like Faulkner and Hemingway. Sherwood Anderson has been called the frst of America's "psychological writers" because he frst explored the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Sigmund Freud's theories of psychology. I Want to Know Why is one of his famous short story from his short stories collections The Triumph of the Egg which is one of his most representative works. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the unnamed frst-person narrator, aged ffteen at the time of the events with Freud's theory of three structures of personality. With the help of Freud's psyoanalysis, this essay mainly probes into the inner spiritual world of the narrator in order to locate his own personality.

scholarly journals Between Jazz, Cherry Blossoms, and Baseball: Transculturality in the Publications of Murakami Haruki

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
Sarah Anna Juen
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Norms And Values

Abstract In this day and age a continuous flow of ideas and culture takes place, which is part of the globalisation process. These exchanges influence the development of a transcultural literature. Murakami Haruki is not only a transcultural writer, but one of the most popular and internationally acclaimed authors of contemporary Japanese literature who has changed the literary scene in Japan since the publication of his debut novel Kaze no uta o kike (Hear the Wind Sing). Murakami has experimented with postmodern expressions and eventually developed his own writing style, which integrates elements of Western cultures into his works. This paper focuses on the author’s transcultural strategy, which is often reflected in his choice of the setting and time frame, the frequent mentioning of cultural consumer goods and linguistic features such as the utilisation of loanwords. In particular, references to music and literature play a major role in Murakami’s publications. This paper analyses how and to what extent transculturality influences the characters, their actions, and the storyline on the basis of the short story “Nemuri” (Sleep) published in 1989. In the process it is concluded that, above all, these references underpin aspects such as the search for identity, the escape into ‘another world’, and the rejection of societal norms and values.

scholarly journals Forgotten Memories: Stephanie Ye’s Seascrapers

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Daniella Ysabel B. dela Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The Core

The paper aims to perform a close reading of Singaporean short story author Stephanie Ye. Using formalism as the core discipline, the researcher aims to develop and explain the concepts of time and memory presented by the author. In addition, a critique of the writing style and syntax in relation to the themes of the story will be tackled as well.  

scholarly journals Anti-transcendentalism and dark romanticism in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"

Entrelinhas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
Sofia Lopes
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The 19Th Century

This review seeks to analyse the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allan Poe, and to study its connection to the anti-transcendentalist and dark romantic movements. Through an examination of the literary aspects contained in the story, this work aims to inspect Poe's writing style, notedly marked by a bold approach of the themes of death, mourning and decay, and to compare his aesthetic decisions - such as the strong symbolic streak, the reliance on colour and architecture and the artistic depiction of death - to the chief tenets that influenced anti-transcendentalist writers over the 19th century.

scholarly journals Developing the Students' Reading Comprehension through Interactive Approaches by Using Short Stories (An Experimental Research at South Aceh Polytechnic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Hasbaini Kluet ◽  
Amsar Yunan ◽  
Asmaidi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Teaching Models ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test

This research was conducted to see the effectiveness of using short stories in teaching reading comprehension. The teaching model was used an interactive approach to be developed the reading skills of second semester students at the Department of Computer Engineering, South Aceh Polytechnic. The reading ability of students was explored and to be found the right teaching model, then the aspects of the ability to be seen was understanding the meaning of words, sentence intentions, information, problems, opinions, recommendations, sentence structure, analysis and communication and student responses after the application of the teaching model in the classroom. After treatment, there was an increase in students' reading comprehension skills especially in the experimental class after using short story teaching materials with interactive approach teaching models to obtain an average value of pre-test = 55, and post-test = 77.67. Whereas in the control class only got a pre-test value = 49,64 and post-test = 67,86. Then there was a significant difference in the scores of the two classes in the post-test scores (77,67-67,86) namely 9,81. Meanwhile, from questionnaire data, 87% of students responded very well and the remaining 13% responded well to the use of short stories with interactive approach teaching models. As well as answering enough options and less as much as 0%. From the responded above, which has helped develop student confidence, collaboration, self-ability and group work. Of course this research was far from perfection and needs to be improved in the future with other teaching methods, while still providing motivation to students to continue to be improved their learning, especially reading skills. So from the results of this simple study it can be recommended that, the use of short stories in teaching comprehension reading with interactive approach models got a significant increase in students' ability in reading comprehension than conventional learning models.

An Analysis of Fifty Citation Superstars from the Scientific Literature

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Harmon
Keyword(s):  
Science Citation Index ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Reference List ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Abstract Nouns ◽  
Average Sentence ◽  
Scientific Papers

This article contains results from a literary analysis of fifty scientific papers selected from the top 100 most-cited papers appearing in the Science Citation Index for the period 1945–1988. Most papers are from the field of biochemistry and became citation superstars because their authors discovered a method or material that numerous others could use in their own research. The typical paper has two authors, two tables, six figures, and twenty-two references. It adheres to the conventional topical organization, with the topics distributed as follows: 2 percent abstract, 5 percent introduction, 25 percent methods and materials, 50 percent results, 10 percent discussion, 4 percent conclusion, and 4 percent reference list. Tables and figures occupy about 30 percent of the article. With respect to the writing style, the average sentence is somewhat long (24 words) but not unreasonably so, and the sentence structure is simple greater than half the time. Moreover, sentences tend to rely heavily on to be verbs (about 80% of sentences have at least one) and abstract nouns (0.66 per sentence). Explanations for the typical form and writing style in these papers are provided.

Kerima Polotan-Tuvera: An Analysis of Her Style and Craft as Reviewed from Her Short Stories The Virgin and the Sounds Of Sunday

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeliza Torrento Estimo
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
Simple Sentences ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This study is an attempt at describing and analyzing Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s style and craft as a short story writer. This attempt is anchored on the combined constructs of Short (1996), Hayes (1966) and Chapman (1973) which emphasize that analyzing text style must be done by examining linguistic choices which are intrinsically connected with meaning. This paper also borrows Hayes’ (1966) concept of writing style as a characteristic, habitual, and recurrent use of the apparatuses of language which must be amenable to statistical measurement in order to reveal the writer’s craft. Combining both quantitative and qualitative methods, the study revealed prevalent use of simple and complex structures where the use of simple sentences is more predominant and lengthened only by an extensive use of a variety of modifiers. Tuvera’s writing revealed a dominant use of single word adjectives or “true adjectives”---a term borrowed from Gibson (1966). Furthermore, her simple, natural, and spontaneous use of description was perceived to be used as a foregrounding device for characterization and theme-building, as a withholding technique, and as a strategy to imply meanings and to highlight the setting of the story. Further analysis of the stories revealed social realities during Tuvera’s time particularly on the changing role of women in the society.   Keywords - Kerima-Polotan Tuvera, short stories, The Virgin, Sounds of Sunday

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