A Hymn to the Goddess Bau

A Hymn to Neurosurgery and Neuroscience

June 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e214 “Marketeers prove...every scientifi c term you use represents two thousand readers putting down the magazine and turning on a rerun of I Love Lucy,” says a world-weary editor in David Mitchell’s Russian doll of a novel Cloud Atlas. The marketeers of Ian McEwan (if he has any) clearly don’t agree. His latest novel, Saturday, is saturated with medical and sci...

Goddess across the Taiwan

The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflec...

A Christmas hymn.

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey