The purpose of this study was to analyze textual elaboration as a modification option for literary texts in an intermediate Spanish language course. This study suggests that literary texts might obtain a more predominant place in second language instruction, especially for readers with lower levels of language proficiency, if learners were supplied with additional tools to facilitate comprehens...

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...

comparative literature,when it is looked at by french school ,investigates,studies and compares historical roots of the folk(national) literature with other kinds of such literature.comparative literature research works have always been under each others influence since the beginning of literary activity up to second part of the twentieth century,that is when american literary school was ushere...

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.

Typically, Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason has been discussed in the context of epistemology, the study of human knowing. However, one aspect or implication that scholars seem to have missed is the relevance that Kant’s theory has for the field of literary criticism; in particular, its relation to the “Reader-Response” theory.In this paper, we will reexamine the basic claims of the Read...