Contributions of Wilhelm von Humboldt and Benjamin Lee Whorf to the Founding of Contrastive Liguistics;

A Brief Comment on Whorf s Theory of “Covert Category”;

A Panorama of American Society Driven by "Status"——A Review of Tom Wolfe s Novel A Man in Full;

Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860- February 22, 1903) was a great Viennese composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder in late Romantic music.

Hugo Wolf, a major German composer at the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century, stands as the trail blazer for modern Lied, with his nearly 300 works inheriting the quintessence of Romanticism while initiating a trend of Realism.

The first part of the article begins from analyzing diverse styles of visual arts, puts forward two different viewing methods through the existing research done by Wolfflin on the cause of the styles and specifically demonstrates that the diversity of expressive techniques actually is closely connected with viewing ways of the artists.