Ondrej Pilny. Irony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama

Diabetes: the sweet irony of modern technology.

Q: Why has diabetes become a major threat to global health? A: People with Type 2 diabetes produce an abundance of insulin in response to an environment that allows them to ingest more calories than ever before without many physical demands, such as walking, cycling and physical work, while leading a rather sedentary lifestyle sitting at a desk. This combination of excessive amounts of calories...

Chapter Three Modern Irish VSO

iv) Evidence from ellipsis phenomena (following McCloskey 1991) argues for a verb raising analysis of Irish. However, following McCloskey (1992b), there is strong evidence from adverbial placement that this is not raising to C° (in contrast to the situation in Old Irish where raising to C° does seem to be the correct mechanism for deriving VSO). With these conclusions in mind we now turn to the...

Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama

Lennart Green and the Modern Drama of Sleight of Hand

The broad purpose of this essay is to suggest an approach to sleight of hand magic, which looks at its social resonances as a dramatic medium. I outline a modern tradition of sleight of hand, that is a form of sleight of hand that was self-consciously described as modern by magicians. This tradition takes shape in the midto latenineteenth century, and its stylistic influence extends well into t...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...