Mapping spaces in fiction seems like a simple idea. But in fact, it turns out to be a major interdisciplinary challenge at the crossroads of literary theory and cartographic concepts for more than one hundred years. Introduced and contextualised is the emerging field of a literary geography along with one of its core methods: literary cartography. After facing a certain period of stagnation, wh...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...

1. The Search for Interdisciplinarity 1.1. The Scientific and Technological Process 1.2. The Resistance of the Literary Field 1.3. An Intermediate Proposal: Interdisciplinarity 2. The Impact of Technology and Literature’s Interdisciplinarity 2.1. Technology at the Service of Literature 2.2. Digital Literature 2.3. Literary Theory about Literature in Hypertext 2.4. A New Paradigm for a New Human...

People have been analyzing discourses, in some sense, for as long as they have been speaking. They have done so without the help of linguists, literary critics, or their theories. But a theoretical framework can still perform a service in making explicit what is normally implicit. In this paper, I will attempt to build a framework for classifying and cataloguing everything that goes on in the p...

Since the end of last century when the network literature took its initial prototype in China to today's its immense popularity, the Internet has had increasingly prominent influence over multi-leveled aspects such as the way of reading, the readers’psychology, and the popular culture. The changes it has brought to literature; the reforms it has brought to multi-relationships among the public, ...

Understanding others' mental states is a crucial skill that enables the complex social relationships that characterize human societies. Yet little research has investigated what fosters this skill, which is known as Theory of Mind (ToM), in adults. We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cogni...

in the second half of 20th century, the german thinker wolfgang iser developed a theory of reading literary texts that opened up new horizons in literary studies. by focusing on the reader instead of the writer, iser introduced new ways of reading. he subsequently extended his literary studies, went beyond the conventional domains, and developed a novel area of research which he named “literary...

the present paper is an attempt to study a contemporary author, critic and artist from kuwait in the hope that it may lead to more thorough researches in the analysis of comparative studies of iran and countries around persian gulf-whose cultural as well as economic interactions has a long historical background- eventually culminating in praiseworthy works.this paper is a literary review of som...