“realism” is a critical term which in its specific sense refers to a literary movement in mid-nineteenth century and in its general sense designates a style of writing that has continued into the contemporary period. the school principal, a short novel by jalal ale-ahmad, is a characteristic example of realism in its general sense in which the author attempts to represent people and social cond...

ibn baabak is a poet who is not known as he deserves. we do not find many things about or from him except some imitative repeated phrases and so here we have talked about him briefly at a glance. noting his life, poems, faith, and connection to the issue of relation between a poet to his contemporary authors and poets as well as speaking about literary movement and his role in its dynamics, man...

This paper argues that the contemporary climate crises we see around our planet correlate with a colonial crisis of (literary) imagination. The author engages Caribbean literary scholar Sylvia Wynter and other anti-colonial scholars to trace how imagination is rooted in euro-western humanism racial capitalism governs west, stories forms frame it, whose logics continue be rehearsed across discip...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

Digital adaptations of literary works possess an ambiguous status in education. Even though they have been in use several decades, their impact on learning is not sufficiently studied. Apart from lacking technological confidence, educators are skeptical about viewing digital texts as relevant to literary discourse. In their turn, developers are not always interested in fitting the school needs ...

Pronominal relative clauses were previously reported to be unproductive in English, appearing only in Bible verses and proverbs. This corpus study of Twitter data shows that pronominal relative clauses are a productive part of contemporary English, and can be used in both literary and nonliterary registers.