Intertextuality in Diane di Prima’s Loba: Religious Discourse and Feminism

HOW IS RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE POSSIBLE? The Constitutive Role of Metaphors in Religious Discourse

The creation and use of metaphors is an indispensable element of our mental skills and our ability to use language. Modern studies of metaphor underline its almost unlimited range. Perceived this way, a metaphor is not only a rhetorical figure occurring in poetical language and in several different specific types of discourse. The ability to create and use metaphors is used in everyday and scie...

The Discourse of Gender and Sport: From Femininity to Feminism

The argument presented here is that the sociological discourse of gender and sport, in other words the way the topic is approached, the assumptions surrounding its investigation, and the ways in which new knowledge is generated has been determined without sufficient recognition of its own ideological foundations. Gender, it is argued, is a major social and theoretical category that, along with ...

Religious and Political Discourse in Iran: Moving Toward Post-Fundamentalism

religious manifestations of intertextuality in poetry of broudi

mahmoud sami baroudi, a celebrated egyptian poet was a pioneer of innovation . he could bring back the beauty and freshness to the arabic poetry. since he was brought up in a religious family and since he considered moral refinement as an output of literature, he tried to teach principles of islam in his poetry and to propagate social, religious, and moral values among people such as : romise f...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...