Author(s)

Huimin Liu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ The School of Foreign Studies, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

The Dead, as the final work of James Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners, has a unique language style and profound meaning. The Dead tells the story of Gabriel's mental transformation after he is frequently frustrated, showing the spiritual struggles of people at that time. From the perspective of literary stylistics, this essay analyzes how the fiction The Dead reflects the "spiritual paralysis" of Irish society and people at that time, and criticizes this phenomenon from the aspects of lexical features, syntactic features, figures of speech, and speech and thought presentation. On the syntactic level, this essay analyzes the role of sentence structure and grammar in conveying information. On the figures of speech, this essay analyzes the use of alliteration, repetition and parallelism, and symbols in The Dead. In the presentation of speech and thought, it demonstrates the features of free indirect speech in this short story by illustrating some examples.

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Huimin Liu, An Analysis of The Dead from the Perspective of Literary Stylistics. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 38-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061606.

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