On Stylistic Devices of Modern Short Story

THE MINISTERY OF EDUCATION OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

CAHUL STATE UNIVERSITY "B.P.HASDEU"

PHILOLOGY AND HISTORY DEPARTMENT

CHAIR OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

CRUSCA NATALIA

ON STYLISTIC DEVICES IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

BACHELOR THESIS

Scientific adviser:

Mititelu Ina, Senior Lecturer

CAHUL 2012

ABSTRACT

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS

1. Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

2. Short Story- the authors of the modern English short stories "no longer attempt to make daily life more entertaining by inventing exotic plots. Instead, modern short story writers have tended to base their narratives on their own experience; here the focus is much more on the less spectacular aspects of life, on the significance underlying what is apparently trivial. The result of such perceptive writing is perfection of form, harmony of theme and structure, and precision of style to reveal the subtleties of the human mind and of human behavior.

3. Stylistic Devices are the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to the literal or written.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT..................................................................................2

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS.................................................3

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................5

CHAPTER I: SOCIETY AND LITERATURE OF MODERN PERIOD.........7

1.1. British Society of Modern Period

1.1.1. Politics

1.1.2. Language

1.1.3. Media and Music

1.1.4. Religion

1.1.5. Education

1.2. America in Modern Period

1.2.1. Politics

1.2.2. Language

1.2.3. Media and Music

1.2.4. Religion

1.2.5. Education

1.3. British Literature in Modern Period

1.4. American Literature in Modern Period

CHAPTER II :ON STYLISTIC DEVICES IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

2.1. British Modern Short Story and analysis

2.2. American Modern Short Story and analysis

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES.............................................................................42

INTRODUCTION

"A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. "

(Elias Canetti)

The name of the Research Paper is On Stylistic Devices İn British Modern Short Stories

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism. Arguably the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of tradition and its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms. Modernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking and also rejected the existence of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator God.

So the aim of the Research Paper is to compare the Modern Period in Britain and in the USA and to determine its differences in various contexts, using such methods as: research and investigation of sources, synthesis of the information and selection of the important things, and comparison of the information found.

The objectives of the work will be the following:

- To give the definition of Modernism;

- To elucidate the Social Context of Modernism in the US and Britain;

- To expound the Literary Context of Modernism in Britain and America;

- To determine the influence of Social events on the Modern Literature in the USA and Britain;

- To reflect the influence of the English literature on the American one;

- To compare Modernism in Britain and in the US.

The structure of the work corresponds to the objectives and is based on one chapter. The first chapter presents the Modern Period of Britain and America in five contexts:

- The Social Context of Modrn Britain, characterized by the Class society, Class ideology, the Rural and Industrial Changes, and difficult life in towns, influenced