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use of snow in Yasunari Kawabata s Snow Country and James Joyce s The Dead

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  The use of snow in Yasunari Kawabata's "Snow Country" and James Joyce's "The Dead"
       The use of imagery in literature, especially novels, is an effective tool where a writer's thoughts can be conveyed more efficiently than by using simple description. Some ideas or thoughts are best expressed by conjuring mental images of these ideas in the reader's mind; imagery is used to accomplish this task. Indeed, inanimate objects have been subjects of focus in novels that contains abstract thoughts or ideas. More often, writers use imagery because of the simple beauty it possesses in beautifying the author's message. The use of imagery is a tool subsisted to in the novels of Yasunari Kawabata and James Joyce. Their literary works, "Snow Country" and "The Dead" use snow imagery in conveying various themes in their works. Kawabata and Joyce use imagery to achieve their personal purposes in the novel. However, a thorough analysis of both writers' works will reveal that despite the differences of their novels with each other, Kawabata and Joyce use the snow imagery in more than similar ways. In order to provide a more detailed discussion of their novels and an analysis of their use of the snow imagery, this paper will provide a comparative analysis of the novels, "Snow Country" and "The Dead" , actually a short story, which came out from Joyce's novel, "Dubliners," of which "The Dead" is the last chapter. The analysis will include a study of the representations of the authors' use of snow imagery...