abstract: myth is as old as mankind; it has transformed and lasted in the form of stories, and anecdotes, together with literary and artistic works. one cannot ignore the presence of myths in culture, literature and art (especially cinema) every era ranging from the age of aeschylus, euripides and aristophanes to the contemporary age of cinema has a firm attachment with myth- of all historical ...

Of the many dilemmas facing the assessment of literary competence, one is the extent to which language should constitute part of the target construct intended to be measured. Some argue for the construct-irrelevance of language and hence recommend that it be eliminated or minimized in favor of an exclusive focus on literary competence. In practice, this does not seem to be the case, as language...

This work shows that African Commonwealth writers in their use of the English language have possibility deploying three levels identifiable Commonwealth, order to convey a veritable experience with needed authenticity. These include Acrolectal English, Mesolectal and Basilectal English. By using data from Literary Discourse, selected writings Achebe (1982), Asong (1995), Tah (2015), basing anal...

The article deals with the latest methods of constructing a literary text in American short fiction. There are two main types narrative: theatrical performance and psychological sketch. Theatricality finds expression elements surrealism, magical realism, absurdity. Sometimes it develops into an overt puppet theatre performance. sketch takes form emotional monolog or impression. analyses transfo...

The paper discusses computational methods for natural language processing (NLP) and possibilities they offer to folkloristics. As folkloristic materials are very challenging for NLP, due to their specific semanticsyntactic structure, inherent dialectical diversity and strong intertextuality, a robust NLP method is needed that can account for topical distribution, detect general heterogeneity, a...

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...

The biblical book of Jonah has been the subject multiple literary retellings, ranging from individual poems to whole novels and theatrical dramas. This article focuses on interaction with in 20th-century world literature, where becomes our alter ego; he embodies own struggles God. I shall highlight three common tropes retellings: (1) Several retellings use character express a person’s failure e...

In Women in the House of Fiction Lorna Sage writes: "…the novels too treated domain character and representation as place where 'others' lived, playing their parts acting out roles…" (Sage 1992: viii). investigates impact women writers have had on post-war fiction employing that every novelist tries to probe boundaries fiction, "voice" views positions through language literature. Using Henry Ja...