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Literary Criticism

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 The literary language has been defined through history by many different authors. The definitions that have agreed since ancient times is that it is a language aesthetically pleasing  and that imitates or reflects upon people´s lives because there is realistic or non-fictional and fictional literature. Since the Greeks the theory of literature defines itself as the communication which has a pleasure purpose using a lot of stylistic figures and tropes.  The history of literary criticism starts in Greece , in fact the origin of the word comes from "kritei" and "kritikos" that means jugdement and a judge of literature. In Greece between the sixth an fifth centuries appears the earliest known critic named Xenophantes of Colophon who attacked in his works to Homer and Hesiod , the Sophist philosophers wrote about "rhetoric" and poetry especially authors Gorgias and Protagoras . The Greek playwright Aristophanes in his play "The Frogs" in which ther...

Specialized English

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 People can change their language according to different variations which may be social or functional, the social variation of the language that speakers may have varies with their particular region, social and economic class, age or sex group, generation, etc. The functional variation that speakers may have is related to the function of their language whether it is function related to a job, objective, etc. Halliday names the social variation as dialect which differs with the region mainly but also with, social class, generation, age, sex or other grouping   and the functional variation as register. Halliday also describes the varieties related to the function and inside the specific professional fields there are varieties such as scientific, technological, commerical and business English. These varieties of English depend on three variables like the theme or field, the speaker or tenor and the role of the language or mode.  Registers in any language are studied de...

The British Sentimental Novel

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 The sentimental novel began in the eighteenth century in England as a reaction against excessive logic and reason of the Augustan authors who followed the trend of the Enlightment: These authors reflected the cultural and socioeconomic content of the since the established parliament along the constitutional monarch, the development of trade, travels and explorations and industry. In the epoch the English literature were influenced by economists, scientists and philosophers such as David Hume, John Locke, Isaac Newton and Adam Smith which highlighted a liberal and optimistic view on human´s progress. In the context of a alternative powers in the government of Tories and Wigs, without political turmoils but stability built on laws and property and the flourishing English overseas empire and trade of sugar, tabacco, tea and other staples to be manufactured in the homeland in a thriving industry, the number of readers increased due to free press in newspapers and pamphlets and debates...

Detective novels

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Since the very beginning humanity has always tried to solve mysteries, tribes used to tell stories to solve mysteries around the fire in caves about their rough lives and the first civilisations that started the first writings either in hieroglyphs and cuneiform writings in clay tablets from the ancient civilizations of Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Egyptians and others had mystery stories or riddles like that one of the sphynx about the creature that lives on four, two and three legs that answers to the three ages of man.  Humanity has always been fascinated by riddles and mysteries, the tribes told their stories filled with mysteries and the first civilizations like Sumer, Babylon and Egypt also had riddles such as the one of the sphinx dealing with the different ages of man. In the United States the noteworthy poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote the first detective novel in “The Murder of Marie Roget”  The detective fiction in the United Kingdom which is named “cozy”...