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Journal articles on the topic "Contemporary writing style"

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Vermeulen. "Warped Writing: The Ontography of Contemporary Fiction." Style 55, no. 3 (2021): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/style.55.3.0325.

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Suzuki, Satoko. "Vernacular style writing." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 19, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 583–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.19.4.04suz.

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This paper shows that some Japanese non-fiction writers are using various structural characteristics of spoken discourse in their writing. Their written discourse includes non-canonical word order and long sentences that are produced by combining a series of clauses. Their sentences may lack case or topic marking particles, but they may contain clause-final particles. Their discourse looks like it may have gone through a dynamic, on-going formation process because it includes reformulation and changes in the structure in midstream. It is proposed that writers who adopt such an approach are deliberately blurring the boundary between speech and writing for multiple reasons. They may be exhibiting their creativity and innovation as well as their anti-establishment ideology. Vernacular style writing may also be an attempt to engage, involve, and connect with their readers. Further, they may be reflecting as well as expressing contemporary society in which orality is viewed favorably and as a result, writing in general has become increasingly more casual than before. The phenomenon discussed in this paper may be viewed as a reflection of erosions and shifting of traditional genres.
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Shim, Hoon. "Narative journalism in the contemporary newsroom." Narrative Inquiry 24, no. 1 (October 28, 2014): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.24.1.04shi.

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This study examines the journalistic discourse in American trade publications toward a storytelling format, competitive in contemporary daily papers, which has long been considered as not appropriate for objective news writing. Thomas Kuhn’s concept of ‘paradigm’ was employed in examining and analyzing narrative discourse in trade journals. The outcome of text-analysis revealed that assenters in narrative news writing outnumbered the dissenters; narrative upholders have vividly attempted to construct a friendly perspective toward a storytelling format by eulogizing the prose style, battering the old form of news production, and distancing the previous literary movement from contemporary narrative news writing. The author concludes that the change of journalistic perception toward the narrative style documents the hierarchical relationship between the occupational ideology and the market ideology within which the journalistic paradigm of news writing can be modified and replaced when the established one — the inverted pyramid news writing — fails to satisfy the concerns of the media industry.
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Thompson, Susannah. "The dress of thought: Form and style in contemporary art writing." Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 10, no. 1 (September 1, 2017): 101–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.10.1.101_1.

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Lovell-Smith, Rose. "SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE FEMINIST FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AND A NEW READING OF OLIVE SCHREINER’S FROM MAN TO MAN." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 2 (September 2001): 303–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301002042.

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BY THE LAST DECADES OF THE nineteenth century, the various aspects of the “Woman Question” had drawn many women into public controversy. Their published writings commonly advance both moral and practical arguments, and often cite supporting statistical evidence and scholarly opinions as well. But not all their writing is of this kind. Feminist1 argument around the turn of the century also generated some fine rhetorical flights which stand out from their more prosaic surroundings. Passages of elevated and figurative persuasive writing are found in essays, monographs, and occasionally novels. Today these writings may be found in the many anthologies of “first-wave” feminist writing, which draw on the London journals, especially the Contemporary Review. Female activists in America often use a similar style. Consistent features in this rhetoric suggest that something like a distinctive feminist authorial position had developed.
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Gottesfeld, Dorit. "One Sky: The Palestinian Writer Liyāna Badr between Two Periods." Arabica 60, no. 1-2 (2013): 178–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341242.

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Abstract The present article illustrates how the change in the geographic location of Liyāna Badr, one of the prominent Palestinian women writers, influenced her writing in thematic and stylistic terms. It shows how Badr’s writing shifts from descriptions of isolation and loneliness, alienation and yearning for the past, to describing feelings of rage and frustration with the reality of Israeli occupation, and how from an innovative and vague writing style she shifts to a realistic, simple, and direct style that reflects the themes of her stories and the messages she wishes to convey. In this way Badr reinforces the connection of her work with Palestinian existence and the reality of occupation, and does not let the contemporary writing directions adopted by the young women authors influence the degree of Palestinian-ness of her texts.
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Walters, Frank D. "Scientific Method and Prose Style in the Early Royal Society." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 23, no. 3 (July 1993): 239–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/xue0-7frb-4bnh-511w.

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This article discusses two conflicts occurring during the first decade of the Royal Society (1660–1670). One conflict concerned the proper method of scientific experimentation, the other the proper writing style for communicating scientific knowledge. Following the method proposed by taxonomists, language would be a vehicle for representing the order of reality in its undisturbed state. Following the method proposed by conjecturalists, language would be a means for constructing a theory and arguing for its validity. Members of the Society were divided over these crucial questions, as evident in scientific documents of the period as well as in Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society. Parallels to this division are present in contemporary issues in technical writing, and this article closes by discussing some implications for teaching, practice, and theory.
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Monaco, Leida Maria. "Was late Modern English scientific writing impersonal?" International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21, no. 4 (November 28, 2016): 499–526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.21.4.03mon.

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This paper focuses on the use of certain linguistic features conveying impersonal style in late Modern English scientific prose (1700–1900). Samples are taken from two subcorpora of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, one from the humanities (Philosophy) and the other from natural sciences (Life Sciences). The methodology applied is based on Biber’s (1988) Multidimensional Analysis, consisting of a study of register variation as manifested through sets of co-occurring linguistic features with a shared discursive function. The aim of the present study is to detect variation across scientific disciplines, genres, and subject matter. Findings are compared to those found in both diachronic and contemporary reference corpora.
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Hua, Meng, and Jun Li. "A rare glimpse into the Chinese novella." FORUM / Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation 17, no. 1 (July 26, 2019): 120–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/forum.17010.hua.

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Abstract The Chinese novella has been playing an important role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature. To provide English readers with a rare glimpse into the heart of contemporary Chinese fictional writing, this paper introduces the content and style of a book titled By the River: Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas, and comments on its English translation from perspectives of a reader. This book is a handsomely recommended production for readers who are interested in Chinese literature or novellas.
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Kočan Šalamon, Kristina. "Translating Culture: Contemporary African American Poetry." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 12, no. 2 (December 29, 2015): 211–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.12.2.211-224.

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The paper interrogates cultural specifics of contemporary African American poetry and exhibits translation problems when translating this poetic work. African American writers have always included much of their cultural heritage in their writing and this is immediately noticed by a translator. The cultural elements, such as African American cuisine, attire and style in general, as well as spiritual and religious practices, often play a significant role for African American poets who are proclaiming their identity. Moreover, the paper presents the translation problems that emerge when attempting to transfer such a specific, even exotic, source culture into a target culture, like Slovene. The goal is to show to what extent contemporary African American poetry can successfully be translated into the Slovene language and to highlight the parts that inevitably remain lost in the translation process.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Contemporary writing style"

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Herbst, Elke Maria. "The Possible House." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500990/.

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The thesis begins with an introductory chapter that explains the creative process, providing quotes from well-known poets and examples from my own personal history and ideas. Some of the creative concepts discussed are different manifestations of inspiration, such as the duende and the Muses. However, the act of creating a work of art--what actually occurs when an artist works--remains undiscovered. Every poet is part of the poetic tradition, yet she also strives to supersede that very tradition. In my poetry, I try to build on and deviate from the poetic tradition, while simultaneously representing events from my cultural and personal history. Twenty-nine poems follow the introduction. The poems included in this volume represent a contemporary writing style influenced by Romanticism and Modernism, apparent in nature imagery and ambiguity.
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Efone, Ekemi Shella. "La question de l'originalité dans le roman contemporain : Identification des caractéristiques stylistiques dans trois oeuvres : La Place d'Annie Ernaux, Lac de Jean Echenoz, La Place de l'étoile de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Tours, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUR2015.

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La question de l’originalité dans le roman contemporain : identification des caractéristiques stylistiques dans trois oeuvres : La Place d’Annie Ernaux, Lac de Jean Echenoz et La Place de l’étoile de Patrick Modiano est un travail qui consiste à mener des analyses sur la spécificité du roman français aujourd’hui. Ce travail s’appuie sur trois principaux axes dont le premier consiste à identifier les rapports d’influence et d’intertextualité qui relient les textes de nos auteurs à leurs prédécesseurs. Le roman puise sa matière dans le patrimoine littéraire et il se transforme progressivement par l’acte d’écriture. Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz et Patrick Modiano sont des auteurs atypiques qui ont su extraire de l’héritage littéraire une véritable source d’inspiration. Pour le montrer, nous avons mené une étude analytique des procédés d’écriture utilisés par chaque écrivain. Leur particularité réside dans la vision personnelle et l’univers de chaque auteur
The subject of originality in the contemporary novel: identification of stylistics caracteristics in the three works of Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano. This work consists in a relevant analysis of the stylistic features of the French novel these days. This work is based upon three approaches whose the first consist in identifying the relation of influence and intertextuality which link the texts of ours authors with the texts of their predecessors. The novel takes its roots in the literary heritage, and then it transforms itself progressively through the writing act. We have seen that Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano are atypical authors who have been able to extract from the literary heritage its very substance in order to produce a masterpiece. In addition, we have conducted an analytical study of the writing methods used by each one of these authors
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Lin, Hsuan-sung, and 林玄淞. "The Writing Style Research of Nature/Travel in Contemporary Taiwan—A Concurrent Discussion of the Writing Style and Achievement of Liu Kehsiang''s Nature/Travel." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/f6e727.

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Because of the intimidating reign of long-period colonization, the cultural development of Taiwan has been under oppression. Up to the 70''s, both the difficult situations of a series of retreat on international foreign affairs and personal wealth accumulation owing to economic boom caused internal change and collapse of Taiwan''s authoritative political system, which in turn shaped the booming environment of various writing styles. Among them, nature writing style and travel writing style are closely connected with the contemporary society. The writers show personal writing styles on the one hand; and on the other hand, they make use of these characteristics to construct the facial features of Taiwan''s landscape, which is the emphasis of this study. In terms of structures and contents, both nature writing style and travel writing style can trace their origins to travelog. They are similar in that they use reporting language and description style to construct the contents. But they are different in that they emphasize differently on on-the-spot revelation and personal realization. Ever since the development of nature writing style and travel writing style in the 80''s, each of both has respectively seen its own fruitful harvests. Liu Kehsiang, who gradually transfers from nature writing style to travel writing style, has accumulated considerable volumes of works of both styles. This kind of shift is worth discussion. This study is based on Liu''s chronicle works, which is divided into four periods of time: a) the criticism period of the poet''s will; b) the seeking period of models; c) the tentative period of reconstructing travel; and d) the realization period of local traveling. We try to clarify the similarities and differences between these two styles, and investigate Liu''s trial and achievement in tying them up. In a nutshell, in the experiment of integrating different writing styles, Liu''s connecting nature writing style and travel writing style has created a brand-new writing arena, which enriches the possibility of nature writing style and travel writing style.
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Books on the topic "Contemporary writing style"

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Kuiper, Shirley. Contemporary business report writing. 2nd ed. [Cincinnati, Ohio]: South-Western College Pub., 1999.

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Spunk & bite: A writer's guide to bold, contemporary style. New York: Random House Reference, 2007.

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Plotnik, Arthur. Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style. New York, USA: Random House Reference, 2007.

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The body of writing: An erotics of contemporary American fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013.

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Contemporary Business Report Writing. 3rd ed. South-Western College Pub, 2006.

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Contemporary business communication. Scarborough, Ont: Prentice Hall Canada Career & Technology, 1999.

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Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Writing with Clarity and Style: A Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Masters, Ben. Novel Style. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766148.001.0001.

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Re-examining elaborate English stylists from the post-war period to the present day (including Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, and David Mitchell) through a fresh style of ethical criticism that does not over-rely on notions of character and interiority (the terrain of the ‘humanist revival’), and that returns the author to centre-stage (contra the approach of the ‘new ethics’, with its indebtedness to poststructuralism), Novel Style defends the stylistic excesses of writers who were conscious of both writing out of excessive times and of the need for new kinds of artistic response to contemporary ethical pressures. Through its methodology, Novel Style calls for a return to close reading and aesthetic evaluation and recovers its subjects from theoretical quagmires by repositioning them as stylists and ethicists, arguing that the two positions are inextricable. For example, it considers how forms of stylistic excess—ranging from puns and wordplay to long sentences, proliferating imagery, repetitions, idiosyncratic rhythms, multiple levels of narration, and variable points of view—might enact ethically-charged dynamics like curiosity, particularity, complexity, and empathy. As well as being an impassioned defence of literary excess, flamboyance, and close reading, Novel Style asks fundamental questions about how novels think, see, and feel, and how they might change us.
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Brown, Katie. Writing and the Revolution. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942197.001.0001.

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In contrast to recent theories of the ‘global’ or ‘post-national’ Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation. The latter results from factors including the legacy of the Boom and historically low levels of emigration from Venezuela. Grounded in theories of metafiction and intertextuality, the book provides a close reading of eight novels published between 2004 (the year in which the first Minister for Culture was appointed) and 2012 (the last full year of President Chávez’s life), relating these novels to the context of their production. Each chapter explores a way in which these novels reflect on writing, from the protagonists as readers and writers in different contexts, through appearances from real life writers, to experiments with style and popular culture, and finally questioning the boundaries between fiction and reality. This literary analysis complements overarching studies of the Bolivarian Revolution by offering an insight into how Bolivarian policies and practices affect people on an individual, emotional and creative level. In this context, self-reflexive narratives afford their writers a form of political agency.
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Book chapters on the topic "Contemporary writing style"

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Eagle, Morris N. "Psychoanalytic styles of writing, thinking, and habits of mind." In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 174–206. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315142111-4.

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Ellis, Dave. "‘Styles, ‘Codes and Violence’: Subcultural Identities in Contemporary Black Writing of Britain’." In Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media, 59–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73189-6_4.

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Dancer, Thom. "Modesty in the Anthropocene." In Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction, 20–46. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893321.003.0002.

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This chapter argues that modesty offers an alternative, legitimate model of critical engagement with a world defined by limited human agency and perpetual crisis in which we are irrevocably implicated. This argument is situated in the context of the profound changes in worldview entailed by what I call “Anthropocene thinking.” With this phrase, I signal a departure from solely environmental approaches to the Anthropocene, instead focusing on how the era unsettles conventional habits of aesthetic expression and critical inquiry. The second section offers a defence of “modesty” as opposed to other possible key terms (such as humility or generosity) by showing how critical modesty has a precursor in the style of William James’s pragmatism. The chapter offers a reading of literary and narrative form in the writing of Bruno Latour. Despite Latour’s growing popularity in literary studies, critics have tended to overlook the crucial function of form, style, and technique in his writing. Attending to Latour’s writing at a more granular level illustrates how a work can be formally modest about its position with respect to what it studies while also being critical, insofar as any redescription offers a contrasting account of the world. The chapter’s literary approach allows that the Latourian style of inquiry and novelistic discourse are up to the same kind of thing: attempting to make sharable a process of thinking that opens up conversation about the composition of our world.
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"Twenty-First-Century Appalachian Literature." In Writing Appalachia, edited by Thomas Alan Holmes, 487–88. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0708.

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Although Appalachia and its authors resist political definition and economic category, one can say that twenty-first century Appalachian writers attempt to define what changes and what endures in a rapidly globalizing world. As Pulitzer Prize finalist Maurice Manning has noted, at the core of Appalachian literature is a tension between an appreciation of the region and an “anxiety for legitimacy”; this observation reflects the challenges facing authors from a region still often seen as “other” by the broader American culture. Some contemporary Appalachian authors explore which traditions are worth preserving and which ones should fall by the wayside, while others consider how to preserve and expand their Appalachian identity, a process that they sometimes connect with preservation and innovation in literary style. In short, many twentieth-century Appalachian authors cultivate in their readers an appreciation of Appalachian perspectives from a self-aware otherness that is sometimes tradition tethered yet is willing to go far beyond received notions about the region.
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Marling, Raili. "Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Writing in Estonian Translation Culture." In The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature, 152–65. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448475.003.0009.

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Virginia Woolf’s texts pose a serious challenge to translators, not only because of the subtleties of her style but also because her political stances, most notably, on cosmopolitanism and feminism, continue to create friction in many receiving cultures. Previous scholarship has shown radical transformations of Woolf’s texts by androcentric translators. This chapter analyses the transfer(ability) of Woolf’s cosmopolitan feminism into the postsocialist Estonian culture and focuses on the example of the translation of A Room of One’s Own (1994/1997). This text was chosen because research from other Eastern European countries has shown that its translation can help open doors to other feminist texts. This analysis shows that the Estonian translation prioritises stylistic excellence over politics but not to an extent that would mute the feminist intentions of the text. The translation indeed can be seen as a means of smuggling in feminist ideas and inspiring feminist activism.
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Akerman, Sean. "The Rhetoric of Narrative Work." In Words and Wounds, 99–120. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190851712.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 reviews contemporary research on psychological writing in order to sketch the possibilities and limits of such prose, rooted in a style of writing that goes beyond “typical” social scientific conventions. Drawing on the author’s reflections of how he chose to write about the lives of exiled Tibetans, he makes the case that this more narrative style is particularly suited to the experiences of those who have been displaced because it allows for a deeper representation of the efforts to understand the effects of profound violence on another person. The author reviews the challenges that come with this sort of writing as well, including the complexities of reflexivity, the emotional components of fieldwork, and the historical legacy of subaltern studies.
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Dancer, Thom. "Zadie Smith’s Partnerships." In Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction, 81–118. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893321.003.0004.

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Taking up questions of reading and the agency of the critic, the second chapter offers the most direct treatment of post-critical discourse. In it, I argue that Zadie Smith’s claim that all critics are artists, contrary to expectations, recommends a disposition of critical modesty. Though Smith works to reimagine criticism as a “difficult partnership” between writer and critic, what makes it difficult, according to Smith, is the need for the critic to subordinate their view of the world to the one on offer in the work of literature. Reading Smith as a reader and critic, especially her work on E. M. Forster, I find that the comparison of the work of the artist to that of the critic is less an aggrandizement of the importance of writing (in terms of style) for the critic than an effort to recognize that novels and works of criticism are engaged in the same kind of activity: making a certain experience of the world sufficiently shared to create common ground for further conversation. The chapter ends with a reading of Smith’s novel On Beauty that models the kind of difficult partnership that Smith cultivates in her essays.
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Hapgood, Lynne. "Margaret Harkness, novelist: social semantics and experiments in fiction." In Margaret Harkness, 130–46. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526123503.003.0008.

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This chapter is based on Harkness’s three London novels to explore how they provided a space in which she was able to experiment with a new style of literary realism designed to reflect both its historical moment and an evolving linguistic and political discourse. It argues that, in a period of social change, Harkness’s task in writing novels about contemporary social conditions required her to employ the shared language and conventions of the present but, crucially, to listen and hear the as yet unarticulated but evolving meanings of the future. It explores the ways in which Harkness’s writing participates in and contributes to emerging forms of experimental writing that seek to relay the experience of urban modernity.
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Yavari, Neguin. "Of History and Biography." In The Future of Iran's Past, 1–30. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855109.003.0001.

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Is there an essentially “Islamic” tradition of biographical writing? To put this to the test, the chapter focuses on the roughly contemporaneous medieval biographies, by Einhard (d. 840) and Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam (d. 829)—both secular firsts—of two non-contemporary rulers: Charlemagne (r. 768-814) and ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (r. 717-20). Accounting for similarities or differences in both style and content of biographical writings in different historical milieus induces a new understanding of the relationship between text and context, and offers new modes of reading. A more complex ancillary of this revision is a fresh look at exchange, transmission or crosspollination to explain instances of convergence between alien texts. The distant objective is a new model for global history that has the conceptual arsenal to explain what specific role representations play in the history of the social order.
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Fujiwara, Dan. "Travel in Rībi Hideo’s Novels or the Search for an Alternative Writing Style in Japanese." In Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction, 405–28. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbj.r.

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Ever since the publication of Seijōki no kikoenai heya in 1987 (translated in English by Christophers D. Scott: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard, 2011), Rībi Hideo, the Japanese pseudonym of Ian Hideo Levy (1950-), has been considered one of the most important “border-crossing writers” on the contemporary Japanese literary scene. And it should be noted that this rare American author writing in Japanese that isn’t his mother tongue, has been challenging so-called “monoethnic ideology” of Japanese literature, according to which Japanese literature should be written by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language, for Japanese readers. One of the fundamental characteristics of his novels, is that these are mainly set within travelling situations. Each novel features central characters with a similar profile to the author himself (an American translator or writer living in Japan) and who move from Japan to Taiwan, China, or the USA. However, the travels described in Rībi’s novels, which have been analysed largely through the prism of modern-day concepts such as mobility and globalization, do not seem to be so free flowing. Indeed, the protagonists’ emotional and psychological states are often affected and disturbed by a number of problems, particularly language. Rībi’s characters are obsessed with the languages people around them use and permanently feel uncomfortable despite their ability in these languages. Travelling is above all a linguistic experience in the sense that it provokes critical thinking about the potential and the limit of language, in other words its identity. This paper aims to analyse Rībi’s novels by focusing on how different travel situations relate to language problems. It will also argue that the themes explores by Rībi enable him to develop an original writing style in Japanese. Finally, it will seek to emphasise that this unusual author’s literary oeuvre offers us an alternative framework for reflecting on our so-called globalized world.
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Conference papers on the topic "Contemporary writing style"

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Wang, Haijie. "On the Writing Style of Maupassant's Short Stories." In 3rd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icadce-17.2017.31.

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Zhang, Yu. "Class Selection and Textbook Writing Requirements for Stage-styled College English Teaching." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.154.

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