A Stylistic Analysis of Adam Reta‟s Short Stories
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2013-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Taking foregrounding as the framework for the stylistic analysis, the analysis focuses on the prominent linguistic features and literary devices. It primarily aims at showing the connection between style and content in the selected short stories of Adam Reta. Besides the functions of stylistic analysis for an understanding and appreciation of a literary work, the lack of sufficient stylistic studies in Amharic literatures in A.A.U. has reinforced the idea of this study.
The study has four chapters: introduction, review of related literature, analysis and conclusion. In the first chapter, background to the study, statement of the problem, research questions of the thesis, significance and limitations of the study have been dealt. Following this, the second chapter has discussed issues related to the review of previously done studies and to the theoretical framework of the study. Based on the prominent stylistic features of foregrounding, the third chapter has offered a detailed analysis of three selected short stories of Adam Reta, i.e., ―Teyeyu‖. ―Yehar Nedo‖ and ―Kasi‖, from his book of short story collection entitled ―Himamatna Begena and other short stories‖. Discoursal deviation, graphological deviation and semantic deviation have dominantly appeared in the analyzed short stories along with lexical deviation and repetitions and parallelism. Besides, the findings indicate that the presence of strong connection between style and content in each story. The final chapter gives conclusion on the findings of the analysis.
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Adam Reta‟s Short Stories