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Reading a range of novels that appeared between the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, I argue that imperial history does not and cannot exhaust the literary object. Rather, the literary object encodes that history differently than other rhetorical forms — along diff…
The purpose of this dissertation was to understand Gardner C. Taylor’s practice of using figures of speech. The figures of speech are present in the classical contributors to preaching, such as Aristotle and Quintilian, but they are not present in contemporary homiletical textbo…
This study deals with Zulfikar Ghose's—an expatriate English language writer of Pakistani origin living in the USA—novels. In this study, I focus on, among other things, the writer's negotiation with style and socio-politically provocative subject matter. I study Ghose's novels …
This research demonstrates the importance of the African influence as a decisive element in the quest of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) for a unique musical style. A concise biography is provided in chapter two, revealing, among other topics, Villa-Lobos’ chil…
The present study refers to language style and style definition in the framework of translation. In how far is it possible to separate the essential, i.e. indispensable contents of a text (of a special kind) from the source and target language styles? The comparison of German an…
In the early 1800s, Rossini's operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have mad…
