This research takes up the dialectical presentation of Terrorist by John Updike to underscore actively mediating presence reader(s) in treating meaning as an event. Drawing on Rosenblatt’s ‘aesthetic mode’ reading, this paper argues that determinate and indeterminate meaning(s) perpetuate Islamophobia, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism (mis)informed reader. The central character Terrorist, Ahmad, is ...

The article considers the notion of prose poeticalness from linguistic and translation points view. Prose can be defined as introduction poetic features into text with help such devices extended metaphors, intertextual allusions, stylistic convergence, syntactical phonetic repetitions. investigation involved analysis fairy tales by Oscar Wilde, short stories Kate Chopin Dylan Thomas, which are ...

How might the psycho-social effects of chronic skin disease, its treatments (and discontents) be figuratively expressed in writing and painting? Does the art reveal common denominators in experience and representation? If so, how do we understand the cryptic language of these expressions? By examining the works of artists with chronic skin diseases--John Updike, Elizabeth Bishop, and Zelda Fitz...

This paper addresses a particular domain within the sphere of activity that is coming to be known as personal digital papers or personal digital archives. We are concerned with contemporary writers of belles-lettres (fiction, poetry, and drama), and the implications of the shift toward word processing and other forms of electronic text production for the future of the cultural record, in partic...

following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, several novels were published dealing directly or indirectly with the effects of the event on individuals- both inside and outside of the united states. though the novels often claim to deal with the post traumatic aftermath of the incident, writers have adhered to orientalist stereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 such attitudes towards muslims and arabs ...

1 Norms It is correct to believe that Steinbeck wrote East of Eden, incorrect to believe that Updike wrote Cannery Row. It is right to believe that tomatoes are a fruit, wrong to believe that apples are a vegetable. More generally, true beliefs are correct or right, false beliefs are incorrect or wrong. This suggests that a norm of truth governs the state or attitude of belief. Since it is wron...