During its early structuralist and typological phases, narratology faced a great deal of difficulty relating theory to practice. The study narrative texts is both an applied science in own right. Its critical challenge as 'So what?' Why do we need all these subcategories understand texts? Narratology has been criticized for not producing significant readings theory, like deconstruction or Lacan...

The video game industry is the combination of two worlds: technology (IT) and show-biz/media/cultural industries. This paper explores this tension by exposing the shortcomings of the culture economics perspective and its lack of understanding for the unique characteristics of the video game medium, thus subsequently proposing a deeper analysis of the medium by turning to literary theoretical pe...

compared to other persian didactic literary works like the works of sanaei and attar, stories in the mathnavi have a unique position. a great number of the stories of the mathnavi were not created by mo'lavi himself; they have been presented in previous sources, including attar's manteggotteyr (conference of birds). relation between the manteghotteyr and the stories of mathnavi is over-textual,...