... can convey the quality of "The Sun Also Rises." It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". Here, there is a clear indication of Hemingway's style - a notably masculine style, described with words like 'hard' and 'athletic'. The reviewer continues: "Mr. Hemingway knows how not only to make words be ... war that initiated Hemingway's love of understatement and his dedication to brevity. Too many words had lost their meaning and straying too far from facts and 'the truth' weakened the narrativ...

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... managerial positions, will increasingly face competition with their female counterparts in the rivalry to obtain leadership roles. As a result, the topics of women, management and leadership style have stimulated great interest among researchers. In particular, literature demonstrates a growing interest on the issue of whether men and women behave differently in leadership roles (Statham, ... provides little consideration for the morale or welfare of individuals (Pounder & Coleman, 2002); thus, subordinates are more or less perceived as "robots." In contrast, people-oriented style is d...

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... a complete turnaround plan and change everything about the way Avon does business. She was to transform Avon's business processes and increase shareholder value. The leadership style she portrayed in managing Avon can be termed as the transformational style. Bernard M. Bass (1990) in his exploration of the concept of transformational leadership mentioned that it is a form of leadership that occurs when leaders "broaden ... ...

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... , that correspond with the audience's own understanding in daily life under overt and covert forms (Prince 1996) (Mak 2003). Hence, the integration of CGI into movies changed completely the traditional narrative style of Hollywood movies, which has been the dominant structure in Hollywood movies since the 1920s (Gianette 2013). Nevertheless, it is important to have a basic background at the conventional ... , the spectator can firm a causal connection between those shots to understand where the character currently is and why the character is in a different location with unfamiliar environ...

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... their lives closely mirrors the growth of stronger congregations throughout their expanding diocese. As if the subject matter weren't interesting enough, the true beauty of this novel is in Cather's narrative style. Both a journalist and a poet by trade, Cather has the unique ability to illustrate complex scenery, demonstrate depths of emotion, and almost set words to music as she describes ... measured against one supreme experience, were of about the same importance" (On Writing 9). Thus, Cather's interpreters have usually seen this novel as a modern "saint's life," emblematic in descri...

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... , and as dealing with angst and loneliness as essential elements of the human condition. (Neve 1992) Whereas Jon Tuska saw film noir as the form as a combination of sensibility, narrative structure and style. (Tuska 1984) However nobody offered a clear precise definition that could be used to sum up all these films of this nature. The existence over the last few years of ... stylistic elements. Full range of the noir vision depends on its narratives, its characterisations, and its visual style. In fact, that style is a translation of both character emotions and narrative emotions and nar...

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... use the iceberg principle in "Hills Like White Elephants," and the unintended translational impact that occurred in "The Metamorphosis," combined with Kafka's ambiguous literary style, both provide explanations to the deeper meanings that each story contains, that most readers would not consider upon their initial understanding. In "Hills Like White Elephants" ... Hemingway's literary works are intentionally ambiguous. In "Hills Like White Elephants" the clearly intentional ambiguity derives from Hemingway's use of the iceberg principle and vague writing style. Kafka's novella, "The ...

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... The Fugitive (1963-67) left off and added a topical resonance with the televised resistance to the war in Vietnam by living like a pacifist, draft-dodger as well as fighting guerilla-style like a Viet Cong, and, in all respects, getting the better of his Anglo-American opponents, while being white himself. Thus, Caine took the moral high ground as a Buddhist priest ... The source of evil in the story takes root in photography, the exploitation of the photographed subject, and the superficiality of images. As John Thornton Caldwell notes, the association of style and deviance runs deep in ...

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... in the skáldasÖgur than the love affairs which give rise to them. STYLE AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE Saga prose is famously spare, and has been compared with the 'hard-boiled' style of Ernest Hemingway. In general it gives an impression of impartial recounting of events in ... writing of tough beauty and effects that are almost cinematographic. Moreover, two modes of writing stand out from the generally self-effacing third-person narrative: direct speech and verse quotations. The direct speech, a subtly honed version of the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech, contributes richly to ... ...

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... to the Victorian fictional conventions, which is a worthwhile question but not an easy one to answer. Yet buried in this unpretentious narrative approach and unassuming prose style there appear surprising passages, such as this one in "Lend Me Your Light" that captures in striking terms a young man's ... corruption in all its guises seeps into every crevice of experience and leaves the individual along with his community defenseless and despairing. As the narrative opens, it moves once more into the familiar milieu of Bombay Parsis, which the earlier short-story collection introduced. Th...

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... to the Victorian fictional conventions, which is a worthwhile question but not an easy one to answer. Yet buried in this unpretentious narrative approach and unassuming prose style there appear surprising passages, such as this one in "Lend Me Your Light" that captures in striking terms a young man's ... corruption in all its guises seeps into every crevice of experience and leaves the individual along with his community defenseless and despairing. As the narrative opens, it moves once more into the familiar milieu of Bombay Parsis, which the earlier short-story collection introduced. Th...

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... eventually would lead him to becoming a major force in international film. This was heavily used in his Jury Prize winning L' Avventura, where Antonioni created a film that contained seemingly aimless narrative and lacked final resolution. "For one thing, Antonioni used the sequence shot in L'Avenntura to equate film time with real time: every scene in the film, whether edited or not ... Grierson established the General Post Office Film Unit, which later was changed to the Crown Film Unit in 1940. As the war began, The Crown Film unit merged their documentary style into narrative, but di...

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... it takes Austen several chapters to introduce her characters, unlike Heckerling, who can do it in seconds through facial expression, tone of voice, style of dress, gestures, body language and the frame of shot, i.e. Heckerling has used the camera shot from above in a dark environment which ... the film are of "informational value". Thus, it becomes essential to have an understanding of the grammar of cinema language. This film narrative differs from Emma's novel in that Clueless has been generated meaning through a combination of story and production elements. Nevertheless, Austen's use ...

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... in Eighty Days and Dracula. The Mercury Theatre of the Air set about breaking the "rules" of conventional drama. They played with the narrative code and audience expectation. "Evidently listeners prefer to be viewers" The popularity of radio drama continued to grow unabated until... Television. In ... of the Worlds. It is impossible to read a text on radio drama without the incident being mentioned. Because of the style of the programme, the breaking of narrative conventions, and the quality of both production and performance, people actually believed that Martians had landed and the hu...

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... happen, at the polite fantasy of good triumphing over evil. The movies would never be the same again. Virtually every aspect of film narrative that the audience had come to accept as normal was overthrown, just as Norman violated Marion with his knife as she stood naked and ... of in a mainstream Hollywood film, the star (Janet Leigh) is murdered in the first half of Psycho. Audiences accustomed to the traditional narrative style wanted a character they could consistently identify with, yet Hitchcock denied them that comfort by killing off the character they had briefly identified with a...

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... loss and concluding with a resolution of grief through motion. Moses allows us to understand his perception that Claudia's role as a storyteller is supported by the blues lyrics that punctuate the narrative at critical points, suggesting a folk knowledge mood. Moses expresses the fact that in traditional blues songs, the singer is the subject, however, in The Bluest Eye, Claudia tells Pecola's story ... in the novel feel toward the word outdoors and we experience various forms of meaning describing the difference between the threats of being put out and being put outdoors. The style of ...

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... adequately exemplify motifs of modernism. While Joyce, Crane, James, Hemingway, Flaubert, and Kafka all master the incorporation of modernist ideals in their writing, each writer individually has a unique style. Evidently any writers personal lifestyle and experiences influence who they are, therefore influencing what drives them to write what they do. While the content and structure vary, the overlying concept ... their lifetime is constantly modifying who they are as a person. Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their n...

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... many older, and more experienced theatergoers recognized the production's many flaws and, as a result, were unable to become fully involved with the its narrative and themes. The production succeeded in bringing in, and entertaining, members of my age cohort, but it failed overall as a production. The reasons ... traditional sense, except for Titania's bower, which was designed by the actress who portrayed her. The Limelight is essentially a gutted out Gothic style church, and we used its architecture to our advantage, allowing the action to spill off the multi-leveled stage on which ban...

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... with purpose. I aimed to find movies that feature different types of antagonists (The Grudge, for example, is based on the supernatural). Directing style was also a key element to consider, and I did my best to secure several different approaches by several different directors as well. Societal trends ... has not been addressed in much detail in a scholarly manner. To compensate, I studied the directors of each of the films to deduce their overarching style. George A. Romero (The Crazies, 1973), for example, focuses his energy on the undead and is known as the father of the modern zombie ...

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... perhaps the most intimate display of sexuality, by requiring the mutual exchange of blood as the bodily fluid. It is here that the new style of vampirism is overtaking that of the old, even to the extent of an incestual nature when Lestat performs this sexual act with his ... vampires to be unaffected by items such as crucifixes, although retaining most of their supernatural abilities. Moreover, Rice not only highlights the new style of vampirism in the distinct difference in religious belief, but also parallels much of this with a great deal of societies own struggle for ... , for one ...

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... reverence for Torah, and his sense of fairness and absence of bias against the Jews, caused him to include favourable notes about them in his narrative. Haenchen and Conzelmann saw ambivalence as a primary feature of Luke-Acts. Luke, they say, was addressing a particular historical problem - understanding ... Gentiles being a standard feature of Jewish expectation. Brawley sees only positive images of Judaism. Pharisees are treated with respect throughout the narrative and are used by Luke to legitimate Jesus and his followers. He sees the movement of early Christians toward Gentiles as ...

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... . However, Dickens does not simply use generalised, crass characterisations to inform his work. Protagonists such as Joe and Mr Wopsle are carefully balanced in the narrative by others showing the flip side of both what is desirable and what is in need of change in the village. Joe Gargery's characteristics are shown in ... and city quite similarly. In both locations, there is a sense of fear and foreboding, with the themes of crime, guilt and punishment being woven throughout the narrative. Both country and city characters are more like caricatures; extreme and verging on parody. In all...

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... complexity of the production, but by the ability of the filmmaker to wield the technology of the time and of his or her choosing to effectively and clearly convey a narrative, evoke an emotion, or make an impression. Although the linear technological evolution of filmmaking has empowered filmmakers by offering a more diverse catalogue of tools and techniques, it is ... achieved success not solely because of the technological evolution, but because they purposefully utilized the cinematic formal elements, in this case editing, born from that evolution to create a distinct style. Their i...

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... audience, "Latin, practically no women, [and] lots of theology," partially rewarding their attention by also providing "gallons of blood in Grand Guignol style" (Eco, 1983). The late-fourteenth-century manuscript in The Name of the Rose is a model of simple and straightforward organization. Its author, ... cultivate a sense of Leo's most intimate speech and thought. In this sense, Leo serves as a kind of ghost-writer of the narrative that bears his name, and Maalouf's turn to Leo's writing and history in fact challenges the occlusion of Leo's contribution to the earlier ... from the "Leo ...

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... the relationship breakdown between mother and daughter. Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. Winterson plays on the Bildungsroman style as traditionally this style includes a realist narrative, however Jeanette's development combines realist and fantasy. Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be ... convention, the narrator occasionally addresses the reader directly with the word "reader." Modern readers know that this is simply a conv...

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