new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

Revered in some cultures but persecuted by most others, epilepsy patients have, throughout history, been linked with the divine, demonic, and supernatural. Clinical observations during the past 150 years support an association between religious experiences during (ictal), after (postictal), and in between (interictal) seizures. In addition, epileptic seizures may increase, alter, or decrease re...

Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroomconsists of nineteenchapters. The chapters of the book have been arranged into two parts: Part I, current issues and suggestions for new approaches (Chapters 1-6) and Part II, empirical and case studies (Chapters 7-19). The book takes multiple approaches to examine how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices inan EFLclassro...

Many widely-used approaches for assessing text difficulty provide a single prediction equation that is assumed to hold for texts belonging to a variety of different genres. This paper demonstrates that such models tend to overpredict the difficulty of informational texts while simultaneously underpredicting the difficulty of literary texts. Mechanisms that may account for these effects are exam...

mythe in the nations are approciat as imaginary and holly stories.these stories that moved from one generation to other  have such deep conection and graft with religious thought and natural phenomenons ,that is the human,s interpretation views and cultural removed  of death and second life.otherwise these stories like ebullient source have aparticular role to mauntain the values,religions and ...

It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness" has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive science has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical stud...

Allah has revealed Quran for the guidance of all humanity. Several methods have been employed to discuss and illustrate various themes ensure internalization divine message. If we are study anecdotal accounts, instances that mentioned, would find a genre multiple subjects dedicated such methods. Linguistic rhetoric is comprised simile, allegories, antonomasia almost other essential linguistic t...