BACKGROUND Silas Weir Mitchell (1829 to 1914), one of the most important neurologists in American Medicine, was known for his seminal work on the phantom limb syndrome, causalgia, and nerve injuries. He was also a prolific writer of novels and short stories. The neurologic content of this fiction has not been studied. OBJECTIVE To assess the extent that references to neurologic topics were pr...

It seems it is especially postmodern literature that undermines the belief in a clear and direct relationship between the physical world and the language depicting it. Quite recently, especially the possible worlds theories and their application in literary theory have tried to explain this relationship. Analyzing the narrative techniques used by Donald Barthelme in his short story The Dragon, ...

Portuguese literature questions the concept of authoritarianism through a variety discursive forms. Starting from an attempt to conceptualize it and restricting corpus fictional non-fictional narrative, we try in this paper diachronic theme approach concerning reference works published between 15th 21st centuries.

In the present article author examines problem of development University student’s socio-cultural competence by reading English fictional literature. The place literature in intercultural communication teaching foreign languages: that it is a source information about nature, built on basis social and cultural realities, through they can know alternative norms at same time compare their beliefs ...