The abundance of ritual descriptions in the Gospel Mark suggests a discourse about between narrator and early audiences Gospel. prominence baptism at beginning (Mark 1:9–11) anointing end (16:1–8), recurrence themes introduced Jesus’s turning points (9:2–8; 10:38–39; 15:38–39) suggest broader ritual—and specifically baptismal—significance narrative. Recent changes helpfully differentiate narrat...

Since 2011, with the Syrian conflict, a sizeable portion of Circassian diaspora have fled to Turkey. The experience deportation due civil war exposed community same trauma for third time. However, as refugees were forced leave their country, they experienced different conditions than Arab and Kurdish counterparts. Utilizing solidarity networks through kinship relations, appears avoided hardship...

Abstract This article argues that transregional communication mechanisms and the diffusion of narratives are important co-drivers towards autocratization. Offering a look beyond ‘material’ in study global authoritarianism, it makes two conceptual arguments. It shows show authoritarian practices often discursively reinforced. Moreover, demonstrates how their form image management tool for foster...

Abstract This article examines the narrative and literary techniques employed in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ to draw on Omani women’s experiences of writing speaking as sources empowerment identity. Marking a shift from dominant realistic historical fiction often associated with male writers, Ḥamad experiments magical realism, carnivalesque, intertextuality, metafiction reconfigure novelisti...

The 1960s was a particularly productive decade for Latin American literature. In those years, Latin American writers produced an astounding number of excellent novels that are marked by their incredible diversity in style and/or content. Despite their variety, however, there are some common characteristics such as the recurrent theme of metafictional concerns, the presence of intertextuality, t...

This study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. It is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. In other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in Conrad’s novel. For the introduction, a brief review of Conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

Whether Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Epipsychidion—a Platonic poem on love addressed to the patriarchally imprisoned Theresa Viviani or “Emily”—receives praise or blame has generally been determined by two focal passages: a secular sermon on free love and a planetary allegorical thinly veiling his own imbroglio. This essay re-reads Shelley’s 1821 work drawing on two recent arguments: Stuart Curran’s ...

background the feasibility of safe full laparoscopic cephalic duodenopancreatectomy (cdp) has been demonstrated by several authors. objectives for its realization, we propose a 5 trocars approach. methods kocher maneuver is performed to reach the inferior vena cava, the infrarenal aorta, the rear plate of the uncinate process, and the superior mesenteric artery. lymphadenectomy in the region ca...