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Unspoken Scars: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of War Trauma and Its Ideological Representations in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
This study followed a systemic functional linguistics approach to demonstrate how war trauma is ideologically represented in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds (2012). It aimed at exploring how Powers’ lexicogrammatical choices reveal the psychological, emotional, and social consequences of war as experienced by American soldiers in Iraq in 2003. Drawing upon Halliday’s ideational (transitivity), interpersonal (modality and power dynamics), and textual (thematic structure) metafunctions, the analysis focused on the exploration of transitivity processes, thematic structure, and experiential meaning to show how trauma is linguistically encoded in the interactions among characters, mainly soldiers and sergeants. Based on a qualitative, exploratory methodology, the study analyzed material, mental, and relational processes to reveal the characters’ inner tensions, power dynamics, and identity struggles. Findings showed that Powers employs fragmented syntax and vivid imagery to reflect the disorientation and dissociation commonly associated with traumatic experiences. Such linguistic choices highlighted three major themes: the psychological impact of war, the loss of innocence, and the complexities of human relationships during wartime. Furthermore, the novel’s use of discourse markers and modality reveals deep moral ambiguity and misuse of authority in wartime. Further research may address trauma discourse in other post-9/11 war fiction across different cultural contexts.
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The best nest
Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a new nest only to discover their old one is better.
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Birds
Fascinated by the colors, shapes, sounds, and movements of the many different birds she sees through her window, a little girl's happy to discover that she and they have something in common.
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Awakening Ecological Consciousness in Conrad Richter's Ohio Trilogy
The environmental concerns of Richter's fiction are the concerns of the early 20th century and many expressed in Richter's novels echo [Aldo] Leopold's own. Richter dramatizes the effects of deforestation, poor land management, predator control, and overhunting. Although the trilogy begins with a depiction of settlers' minds narrowing, as Leopold asserts, by the end, a transformation has taken place, not merely of the land but of Sayward, the trilogy's protagonist, who embraces a more ecological point of view. Ultimately, the trilogy argues for the need for ecological balance in our relationship with the natural world.
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A cage went in search of a bird
\"Is there someone out there for everyone? Two lonely souls find each other in this unusual tale of friendship and belonging from award-winning comic writer Cary Fagan. In her North American debut, illustrator Banafsheh Erfanian brings ornate artistry to the cage and birds that inhabit this surprisingly human story\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Neither \"a conventional influence study . . . nor one that insists on 'anticipation'\" (p. 15), the book remains invested a familiar model of \"formal influence\" (p. 2), according to which \"the looming figure of 'Mother [Ann] Radcliffe'\" (p. 19)-and, to a lesser extent, her contemporaries William Godwin, Matthew Lewis, and Mary Wollstonecraft-bequeath \"structural positionings and patterns of confinement\" that are ironically re-presented in the Victorian period as \"a distinctive poetics of Gothic enclosure\" (p. 7). Chapter 3 investigates the permutations of \"uncanny body switches, what I am calling the device of Gothic 'shock and swap'\"-recall the revelations of the waxen corpse in Udolpho-found in four \"Sonnets for Pictures\" from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life (1870/1881) (p. 150). [...]it is difficult to disagree with Moy's suggestion \"that reading 1790s Gothic novels helps to make us better readers of Victorian poetry\" (p. 258). [...]reaching back into the eighteenth century for material to enrich our consumption of Victorian poetry is Francesca Mackenney's Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.
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Good night birds
Good Night Birds features hummingbirds, woodpeckers, peacocks, chickens, ducks, macaws, toucans, cockatoos, hawks, owls, penguins, puffins, eagles, robins, blue jays, and more. In this charming and educational board book, young readers explore the fascinating world of birds while learning bird names and exploring different types of habitats. No feather has been left unturned!
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Brothers
First published in Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo Yuebao) in 2018, \"Brothers\" is a story about the search for identity and kinship in a city working at breakneck speed to \"clean up\" and redevelop. Dai Shanchuan arrives in Beijing convinced that there is another \"him\" somewhere in the city-not a brother or a lookalike, but a long-lost version of himself. As he wanders the alleys looking for this other Dai Shanchuan, Beijing is being radically transformed around him: traditional courtyard houses are bulldozed and extreme restrictions placed on the activity of informal migrant workers. Unable to go about business as usual, and bored out of their minds, the workers have split into factions and engage in increasingly violent battles to pass the time.
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