in primeval societies, language like all other aspects of life, was dependant on customs and traditions considered holy by people. when the societies changed and lost their natural status, a special type of language was started to develop commensurate with social changes. from the 3rd century, islamic society has witnessed important changes such as increase of wealth, power transfer, emergence ...

literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, economic and cultural conditions of arab world and the domination of cruelty and exploitation caused the writers and poets to accompany the revolution of innocent countries. farouq jowaida, an egypt poet, is one...

My article addresses the qualities of “good” literature and how an understanding of the nature of literary devices, so-called “literariness”, can enhance the reading experience. Focusing on Hans Rosling’s Factfulness (2018), I discuss some of the most important features of good writing. Six literary devices have been selected for special attention: point of view, tone, amplification, anecdotes,...

This paper is an attempt to explore how Lacanian concepts of desire, unconscious, as well as alienation are reflected in the major characters of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov’s Lolita. Before unleashing the new, inexplicable yet highly fascinating aspects of psychoanalysis by the advent of French poststructuralist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Freudian psychoanalysis used to play the pivota...

Many scientific authors--among them famous names such as Henri Gastaut or Sigmund Freud--dealt with the question from what kind of epilepsy Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1881) might had suffered. Because of the tight interplay between Dostoevsky's literary work and his own disease we throw light on the author's epilepsy against the background of his epileptic fictional characters. Moreo...

This paper addresses the issue of culture specific references in translating a literary work taking as a case study the novel Cette aveuglante absence de lumière written originally in the French language by Taher Benjelloun and translated into the English language under the title The Blinding Absence of Light by Linda Coverdale . The study offers insight into the distribution of these reference...