The Literary Styles of Haddis Alemayehu and Baalu Girma

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1983-06

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Addis Ababa University

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The a im of the present study is to i dentify a nd describe the literary styles of Haddis Alemayehu and Bctctlu Girma. To faci li tate this, the study is di vi~ed into four chapte rs . The f i r st chapt",r is intended to give a urief vi8w of the concept of style and to limit the ancle from which the study i s underta!( en . It a l so limits the purpose and scope of the st udy. Chap tel.'s two and three contain the major portion of the 1'8- search. They are se l f - containGd sections ~hat present detail ed descri ptions of the major features of the sty l es of the two Ethiopian nO'Je li s ts. In chapter two, t he mas t outstanding and t'requently occuI'rin;; styl i st i c features of Haddis Al emayehu are described in their contexts. In the thi rd chapter, it Is the style of Baalu Girma that i s presented. As in the preceding chapter, a detailed description of the l'emar l<able features of the sty l e of Baal u is undertaken. In this study, attention is f ocused on four devices that are c onsidered to be markers of the styles of the two novelists. These are figures of spcectl, syntactic patterns, sentence length and diction . The fourt h chapter gives a concluding remark on the study and attempts tv strengthen what if.; said about the partic ular styl i stic se l ections of the two writers in the main parts o f the study.

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The Literary Styles, Haddis Alemayehu

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