Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

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...

russian formalists made great changes in the literary critics in the 20th century putting forth subjects like defamiliarization and foregrounding. their purpose was to establish an independent science for studying literary works. however, they went to extremes so that they laid external factors aside and tried to find literariness solely in the text. although the holy quran is not a literary te...

this article aims at proving the prevalence of the surrealistic characteristics in zakariyya tamir`s first short story collection entitled sahil al-jawad al-abyad (the neighing of the white steed).although this contemporary syrian author was influenced directly by the works of the surrealist authors like sartre and camus and kafka, he managed to digest classical forms and customize western lite...

Data Grids offer redundant and huge distributed storage capabilities, providing an ideal and secure place for the long-term preservation of digitized literary works and documents of artistic and historical relevance. In this demo, we are going to show how we deployed some digital repositories of ancient manuscripts making use of gLibrary, a grid-based system to host and manage digital libraries

jami’s baharestan is one of the most valuable persian literary works; it embodies a lot of fruitful stories and discourses, whose most sources are arabic. though one may find out from jami’s words that he has not used the literary works of his predecessors, an investigation on arabic sources may lead one to lots of background works of the stories of this book. in this paper, we have identified ...

"A Creator between Two Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Film in the Works of Fernando León de Aranoa" This interdisciplinary study of the filmic and literary work of Fernando León de Aranoa highlights a reversal of the common pattern in which literature serves as the basis of a movie. In the case of Aranoa, his first movie Familia (1996) precedes his 2013 literary publication Aquí yacen dragones...

This article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. As stated by Tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. Thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

This paper discusses metaphor as a figure of speech first, and then talks about metaphor and synaesthesia from a cognitive perspective. In order to explain the metaphorical use of sense-impression in English, it borrows examples from some literary works. Finally, it draws the conclusion that metaphor has exerted a great influence on sense-impression in English.