BACKGROUND Stories may be an effective tool to communicate with and influence patients because of their ability to engage the reader. The objective of this paper is to describe the development of a story-based intervention for delivery of health evidence to parents of children with croup for use in a randomized controlled trial. METHODS A creative writer interviewed parents of children with c...

Apres un ouvrage deja prime relatif aux reseaux transatlantiques de l’abolitionniste William Lloyd Garrison, W. Caleb McDaniel publie ce nouveau livre recompense par le prix Pulitzer (mais aussi Avery O. Craven l’Organization of American Historians) qui repond, comme souvent, a une demande sociale forte. Le ete en effet remis au nom d’une « recherche brillante service meditation sur principe de...

translation includes delicate points that if being ignored, it will damage the text and its meaning. one of these main points is the social dialect which should be considered in translation, just like geographical dialects. the social dialects that sometimes create the main body of a story introduce characters and contain important information concerning the speakers. the following article is c...

What is the difference between a model and a metanarrative? This is not the opening line of a humorist but a serious question. According to some, a metanarrative is “a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other ‘little stories’ within conceptual models that make the stories into a whole.”[1] If this explanation is correct then there is no difference between a model and a metanarrati...

Rituparno Ghosh (1961-2013), a celebrated Bengali film director who started making films in 90s, often borrows plots from literary and other cultural narratives. The essay aims to explicate Ghosh’s early Dahan (1997) which is an adaptation of distinguished novelist Suchitra Bhattacharya’s novel with the same title. influenced by real incident couple was harassed four youths at Tollygunge Metro ...