The article rescues and analyzes the work done in 1960 by Antonio Gómez Alfaro, the first Spanish author that carried out a study on relations between journalism and literature using a multidiscipline perspective. The tradition documents the emergence of comparative approaches at the end of the 1990s, but the revision of Gómez Alfaro’s proposal is an exceptional advance, because this intellectu...

The scientific literature is exploding in quantity even as it stands still in literary quality. In this brief guide, I suggest a few small steps that the individual can take to make his or her writing clear, straightforward, and digestible.

the russian formalism is an approach was introduced at the beginning of 20th century and those who offered such a theory wanted to find a scientific method in literary criticism. they believed that the literary work itself should be criticized instead of its author and the literary nature of the work should be considered as the main subject.    adopting such a method, they propelled the study o...

this essay is to study the rhetoric and stylistic features of hafiz's rubaiyat. although this literary form has not a major contribution in divan of hafiz in comparison to his lyrics, but it deserves to get more attention, because this famous poet has blown part of his spirit and inner feelings into its existence. assuming the validity of this attribution, it has been tried to analyze hafi...

In this work I suggest that fictional narratives can be used to communicate scientific ideas to society. My objectives were to measure the success of a literary work in communicating scientific ideas, to investigate the extent to which people can understand and remember science included in a short story compared to traditional factual texts and to explore the motivational dimensions of literary...

An increasing proportion of health professionals and scholars of the humanities is interesting to the Narrative Based Medicine. The terms used indicate a mode of coping with the disease aims to understand its meaning in an overall, systematic, broader and more respectful of the patient. The Narrative Based Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, ...

Title of Document: CHAOS AND THE MICROCOSM: LITERARY ECOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY Heidi C. M. Scott, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Neil Fraistat, Department of English This dissertation investigates literary responses to environmental change in nineteenth-century England. Two tropes, chaos in narrative and the microcosm in lyric poetry, suggest how literary works may have been precurs...