Popular movies grab and hold our attention. One reason for this is that storytelling is culturally important to us, but another is that general narrative formulae have been honed over millennia and that a derived but specific filmic form has developed and has been perfected over the last century. The result is a highly effective format that allows rapid processing of complex narratives. Using a...

Fantasy football participation is an extremely-popular, yet unique online activity that combines traditional sport fandom with interactive components to enhance a fan’s overall sport experience. The player-specific concentration of the game, however, has the potential to alter traditional team-focused loyalties that have driven sport consumer behavior inquiry for decades. Due to this intriguing...

Every ethos implies a mythos in the sense that every systematic approach to ethics is inevitably based on some fundamental religious or religion-like story that gives answers to questions such as: Where did I come from? Where am I going? How am I to live? These narratives generally lay hidden beneath the plane of the interpersonal interactions that characterize all clinical encounters, but cari...

utopian fantasy in the poetry of sohrab sepehri and abbas beydoun(a comparative study)tooraj zinivand *jahungir amiri **reza kiany ***abstractif we look at the poems of the iranian poet sohrab sepehri and lebanese poetabbas beydoun , we find that the fantasy adopted by poets imagination is linked topsychological factors, and this fantasy often comes in surreal manner in branches ofliterary, sym...

in carrying out research in mythology and literary works in the world, we see some works in which the subject matter is a combat between close relatives; especially father and son. these stories are in different forms like myth, tragedy, epic, fiction and religious narratives but they are close together in structure and basic plot and have special features peculiar to them. but, what's the...

this study was set to reveal how second language learners use rhetorical relations in their written narratives in terms of rhetorical structure theory (rst) primarily proposed by mann & thompson (1987) and developed by mann, matthiessen & thompson (1992). to this end, sixty written narratives based on the picture story book ‘frog, where are you?’ were collected from efl learners and wer...