The article presents a survey of the metaphor- and simile-related researches in modern linguistics considers stylistic functions metaphors similes contemporary fiction. It is based on novel Goldfinch (2013) written by American writer D. Tartt, winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2014). proves that tropes question used book are unique striking. They perform figurative descriptive functions, contr...

The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

this paper is an attempt to shed light on how michael ondaatje has tried to rewrite western history in his booker prize-winning novel the english patient (1992). in the light of colonial and postcolonial theories and hayden white’s theory of narrativity of history, which regards historical accounts as metaphorical statements, the researchers try to show how ondaatje challenges the authenticity ...

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

This study offers a critical reading of several contemporary modalities engagement outlined in the socio-literary trajectories writers Annie Ernaux and Chahdortt Djavann. In works these writers, dimensions that arise from desire to renew how writer intervenes are visible through writing style which continually blurs borders between fiction documentary, individual perceptions world collective di...