this paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the tesol. postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the tesol theoretically in some ways. the elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

In his article "Literary Geography and Comparative Literature" César Domínguez analyzes the relevance of political and linguistic frameworks for comparative literary historiography in the context of the European Union. Domínguez's discussion is based on the notion of geoculture whose theorization from Immanuel Wallerstein's perspective presents paradigms of interest to comparative literature. T...

Having defined Modernism and postmodernism, I then describe in what sense both paradigms have failed. The article discusses the possibility of a new approach that circumvents such drawbacks kind “third position” build on innovations modernism initiated while suggesting an alternative mode discourse overcomes its potential extreme rationalism or relativism.

Literature and discourses about crime have always coexisted. They fed each other during their historical development, reaching, perhaps, the climax of these relationships in conceptualization “beautiful crimes” eighteenth nineteenth centuries. In introduction to her book El cuerpo del delito. Un manual, Josefina Ludmer proposes use as a “critical instrument” that allows serialization different ...

Roughly two-thirds of the way through Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), there is a section highly redolent ‘Penelope’ episode James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Commonly referred to as ‘Summer’, section’s similarity has not gone unnoticed among either Joyce or Selvon scholars; date, however, only J. Dillon Brown (2013) offered substantive reading connection. This article seizes on relative a...

The author of the present paper deals with general features success literary artefacts on examples several Czech authors. Regardless some typical cases going back to 19th century, among others a famous one connected name possibly only real romantic Karel Hynek Mácha, probably most significant poet in world observed from point view poetics and artistic values existential angles, there are quite ...

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...