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Published: 4 June 2021

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Boccali, Giuliano, and Elena Mucciarelli. Stylistic devices in Indian literature and arts: Gargnano del Garda, September 16-18, 2010. Cisalpino, Istituto editoriale universitario, 2013.

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Yitsḥaḳ, Avishur, ed. Phoenician inscriptions and the Bible: Select inscriptions and studies in stylistic and literary devices common to the Phoenician inscriptions and the Bible. Archaeological Center Publication, 2000.

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Tang, Pao-chen. The Animist Imagination in East Asian Cinema. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048563999.

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Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakes—these are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. Pao-chen Tang theorizes and analyzes this animist imagination—a new mode of filmmaking that delves into both the definition of the cinematic medium and how to live with the nonhuman. Moving images are animate beings and the animism of cinema further compels an eye-opening vision to examine East Asian history and ecological anxieties of our times. The shamanic protagonists of t

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Nkopuruk, Imikan. Device of Graphology in Joe Ushies Poetry. Stylistic and Pedagogical Implications. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2019.

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Berliner, Todd. Raging Bull’s Stylistic Dissonance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658748.003.0006.

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Illustrating some of the points made in chapter 5, chapter 6 offers an extended analysis of some complex tendencies in Raging Bull’s cinematography, editing, and sound devices. The film tests the limits of the classical Hollywood style and sometimes crosses over into avant-garde practice. Raging Bull offers an illustrative case study of the boundaries of Hollywood’s stylistic systems.

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Frank, Mary C. The Literary Stylist. Edited by Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718284.013.24.

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This chapter investigates Newman’s literary style as it changed over time, paying special attention to the ways in which his Catholic writings depart from the Tractarian reserve and tendency towards abstraction that often govern his earlier prose. Much of the scholarship regarding Newman’s literary style, both in poetry and in prose, has tended to emphasize the influence of the Tractarian doctrine of reserve and the parallel exercise of authorial control through such devices as omission and reticence. This chapter argues that such characterizations are most pertinent to his earlier works, wher

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Copeland, Rita. Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845122.001.0001.

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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring in what has largely been a blank space between about 600 CE and the cusp of

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Caplin, William E. Cadence. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190056445.001.0001.

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Abstract This work is the most comprehensive examination to date of how formal units in European art music of the tonal era achieve closure by means of cadence, a highly conventional device for ending middle-ground thematic units. Rooted in the author’s broader “theory of formal functions,” the book first develops concepts of cadence for music of the high classical style and then extends these ideas to gauge cadential practice in earlier and later style periods. Throughout the study, various manifestations of cadence are defined in terms of their morphology (their harmonic and melodic profiles

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Berliner, Todd. Classicism and Deviation in His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658748.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 illustrates an aesthetically productive balance between easy understanding and cognitive challenge in classical Hollywood cinema with extended analyses of His Girl Friday and Double Indemnity. These films combine classical narrative, stylistic, ideological, and genre properties with artistic devices that complicate formal patterning and thwart audience expectations.

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London, University of, ed. Stylistic and lexical devices in the language of I. Il'f and E. Petrov's novels 'Twelve chairs' and 'The golden calf'. 1989.

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Saugera, Valérie. From English to French. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190625542.003.0003.

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The chapter presents a brief history of the contact of French with English, from 18th-century Anglomania to the global English of the turn of the 21st century, in order to contextualize the singularity of the latest contact period. It then chronicles the changes that commonly occur as donor words become new French words. These changes, illustrated with many borrowed items from the period of virtual contact (1990–2015), can be classified as grammatical shift, semantic shift, stylistic shift, and connotative shift. Beyond demonstrating that an English etymon masks heterogeneous types of French A

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Berliner, Todd. Ideology, Emotion, and Aesthetic Pleasure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658748.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 examines the ways in which a film’s ideological properties contribute to aesthetic pleasure when they intensify, or when they complicate, viewers’ cognitive and affective responses. The chapter demonstrates the ways in which the ideology of a Hollywood film guides our beliefs, values, and emotional responses. In ideologically unified Hollywood films, such as Die Hard, Independence Day, Pickup on South Street, and Casablanca, narrative and stylistic devices concentrate our beliefs, values, and emotional responses, offering us a purer experience than we can find in most real-life situa

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McSweeney, Terence. Studying The Hurt Locker. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325734.001.0001.

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This book, drawing on a broad tapestry of research, offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (2009), its stylistic and narrative devices, its cultural impact, its reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film. The book begins with an analysis of what The Hurt Locker ultimately portrays about the Iraq War, which was officially brought to an end by President Barack Obama on the 18 December 2011, but still continues to be fought onscreen. It also explores the central contentions that are key to the affective impact of The Hurt Locker during the time of its release and after a decad

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Shippey, Tom. Hard Reading. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382615.001.0001.

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This book makes an argument for the intellectual ambition and intellectual achievement of science fiction, a genre consistently undervalued by professional literary critics. It is pointed out repeatedly how much the genre owes to developments in anthropology, history, and other “soft sciences”; how the authority of the hard sciences is both asserted and challenged; and how the authority of ancient myths and modern values are likewise interrogated, with widely variant results. Science fiction, it is argued, has been a collective “thinking machine” for authors and readers alike, often (and espec

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Dinter, Martin T., Charles Guérin, and Marcos Martinho dos Santos, eds. Reading Roman Declamation. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746010.001.0001.

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Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of discourse. This volume places the literariness of Roman declamation into the spotlight by showcasing its theoretical influences, stylistic devices, and generic conventions as related by Seneca the Elder, the author of the Controversiae and Suasoriae, which jointly make up the largest surviving collection of declamatory speeches from antiquity. In so doing, it draws attention to the complexity of these texts, and maps out, for the first time, the socio

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Mathieu, Eric, and Robert Truswell, eds. Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747840.001.0001.

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This volume contains sixteen chapters addressing the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change. And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes. Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes: ch

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Abbotson, Susan C. W. Student Companion to Arthur Miller. Greenwood, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216020240.

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This critical introduction to Arthur Miller provides an indispensable aid for students and general readers to understand the depth and complexity of some of America's most important dramatic works. Beginning with a discussion of his life, this work traces not only Miller's theatrical career, but his formulative experiences with the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. Detailed discussions of eight important plays are organized around the social and moral themes Miller derived from such events; these themes are evident in such works asDeath of A Sales

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