The paper begins with a brief overview of sense and sense-making with reference to cohesion, coherence and intertextuality. Based on a word-by-word close analysis, it charts the semantic coherence of a classical Chinese poem, Ye Yu Ji Bei by Li Shangyin, followed by a mapping of the text’s metaphorical coherence in terms of ontological metaphors. Using the poem as a case example, the paper exam...

The vagaries of poetic inspiration have often been regarded as ineffably mysterious, and have provoked conjectures since antiquity. Instead of invoking the muses, we today are more apt to consider neurophysiological factors. The case of the great English poet John Milton, whose poetic inspiration seemed to follow a marked seasonal pattern, is considered here, and evidence is presented to show c...

The problem of speech stereotypes the Russian wedding ceremony in texts works fiction is discussed paper. What subjected to specific analysis are plays by Alexander Ostrovsky with theme matchmaking, where samples oral folklore and rituals widely represented matchmakers. their poetry, replete folkish ritual elements, presented article given from side content form as well comparison authentic pro...

In his little-known 1539 collection of epigrams, Jacques Delaunay (Jacobus Alnetus), a physician and canon Saint-Étienne de Troyes, includes two important, hitherto unnoticed, poetic exchanges between the monastic humanist poets Jean Dampierre Nicolas Marconville himself. After brief presentation these figures, present article examines principal themes literary techniques characteristic poems t...

The subject of the study is an intertextual dialogue between V.Y. Bryusov and Paul Verlaine based on poem "Croquis parisienne" ("Parizhskoe croquis"). object research ways means forming intercultural in poetic translations Silver Age. authors consider detail such aspects topic as unique word usage "croquis" use Bryusov, reinforcing conclusions with quotations from National Corpus Russian langua...

The Theory of the Tamil people and theory literature are intertwined with agathinai Agam traditions. flourishes on basis love in Ainthinai. Seeing proliferation literary genres, field "Paatiyal" (Treatise poetic composition) emerged an attempt to define grammatical principles for literature. Although there about 46 paatiyal books appearing world, only 10 which available their entirety today. Ta...

The epistolary short story by M.A. Kuzmin 1907 “From the letters of maiden Clara Valmont to Rosalia Tutel Mayer”. “layers” genres and traditions in text novel are studied order establish compatibility genre with narrative strategies stylization parody. It turns out that under narration about connection a supernatural being person lies usual manipulation deception young ingenuous girl. Neverthel...

extended abstract 1. introduction maghame is a kind of narrative which focuses on the poor and beggars’ wants and tricky literary men with an ornate prose. also, picaresque is a kind of episodic narrative which explains events happening for low class people of society or criminals, or the roguish central character fighting for survival of fittest permanantly. these involvements may take place a...

Genres are not just forms. Genres are forms of life, ways of being. They are frames for social action. They are environments for learning. They are locations within which meaning is constructed. Genres shape the thoughts we form and the communications by which we interact. Genres are the familiar places we go to create intelligible communicative action with each other and the guideposts we use ...

This paper is an exploratory sociological analysis of poetic confluence, a spontaneous telepathic phenomenon that occurs in everyday social interaction. In one person’s talk exhibits enigmatic relationship to another’s unstated thoughts or imagery at moment. The analyses draw from empirical approach called Conversation Analysis, formal qualitative method for the naturally occurring interaction ...