In premodern literature, stereotype, called locus communis, had to play an important role inherited from Greek and Latin Antiquity’s rhetorics. particular, it served as source of convincing arguments appropriate discuss philosophical, theological or moral questions. The concept common place has also found its use in short stories 16th century. Firstly, the realm invention, when authors adapted ...

This article examines the literary success of Ibrahim Al-Humaidan's novel "A Hole in Garb Night" and its significance developing Saudi novel. Employing an analytical-critical-descriptive method, study traces evolution narrative, highlighting aesthetic developments thematic modifications within genre. By exploring extensive imaginative work, including novels short stories, sheds light on charact...

Stories about nonhuman animals continue to fascinate us as they have since Aristotle. A phrase recently employed in a moral philosophical account of animals. "animals matter," can also be applied to animal stories-they matter too. For our accounts of animals are a powerful influence on our attitudes toward and practices involving animals. Of course, all animal stories are accounts both of anima...

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Philosophical perspectives are worldviews that define the nature of the world, the individual’s place in it, and the possible relationships to that world and its parts. Learning and instructional theories are developed with respect to a particular set of assumptions regarding what it means to know and learn. It is our contention that when situational variables require some decision on the part ...

The historical development of concepts of causality in philosophy is described. Since the Enlightenment and the growth of science, exponents of the two most important concepts, determinism and teleology, have been in conflict. At the inception of psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century this conflict was particularly intense. It was the cause of the first major schism in psychoanalys...

Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct stories for an audience to experience the finished work in a fixed linear fashion. Although there are starting to be some examples of fixed non-linear multimedia works, viewing a cinematic story must always be linear, as a linear sequence of pictures and sounds conveying some meaning. However, it should b...