one of the subjects about the “la zarar” rule that always had been controversial is survey for positive aspect of it. not only opponents but also researchers that sought to answer the objections of the positive aspect of the rule enter the discussion on the assumption that the evidence of the “la zarar, rule is the la zarar hadith, in story of ansari man and samorah-ibn jondab discored. this as...

This paper compares methods and objectives of cheating in low-tech and high-tech interactive entertainment, oral storytelling tradition and computer gaming. Oral story traditions are one of the oldest forms of interactive entertainment. The interaction between the audience and the storyteller is a limited form of interpersonal communication and is regulated by traditions or an interaction syste...

suggests are either slight or problematical themselves. But given that the profession still refuses to listen, the long, sad story of the scholarly tradition in English metrics cannot be told too often. Both experienced prosodists and those who are only occasional visitors to this field will find RM a useful and enjoyable guide to what Holder calls ’the muddled kingdom of meter’ (Chapter 1), ’t...

Even if A Stir of Echoes (1958) has often been overshadowed by Richard Matheson’s best-known novels I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), it should be given the credit it deserves as a novel that functions both as a reflection as well as a source of intertextuality. A Stir of Echoes is rooted in the tradition of the ghost story and the American gothic, but above all, it comprises mot...

This study examines the role of topoi in short story “Les Prisonniers” (The Prisoners) by Maupassant. For historical reasons, notion topos is preferred to that stereotype, as latter indicates a manner conceiving reality from 20th century perspective (and thus posterior Maupassant’s authorship). The analysis shows author brings play intertextual references linked tradition folktale and story. In...

Between 1884 and 1936, Rudyard Kipling wrote over 300 short stories, most of which were first published in colonial cosmopolitan periodicals before being reissued short-story collections. This corpus contains a number critically neglected Gothic stories that fall into four groups: belong to the ghost-story tradition; represent encounter through gothic tropes horror uncanny but do not necessaril...

This article argues that the social construction of the borders of Europe is the combined effect of a historical trajectory in which the construction of its outer and its inner boundaries interact. These boundaries make sense to the people because they have a narrative plausibility. On such narrative resonance, real hard borders are grounded. The idea of narrative boundary construction is embed...

Importance for Scholarship Emanuel Tov 1. Name The name "Septuagint" designates the ancient Jewish-Greek translation of Hebrew Scripture. Septuaginta means “seventy” in Latin (usually indicated as “LXX”) and this name derives from the tradition that the very first Greek translation, that of the Torah (Pentateuch), was translated by seventy-two elders, six from each tribe. The number of seventy-...