The article analyzes metaphors in the linguistic image of world using description sky (айыы) and underground (абаасы), mythical creatures represented phraseological units with numbers T.V. Zakharov-Chääbij's Epic (2018) "Bulkun Wing Hero". Compositional analysis, context analysis method identification were used. general investigation is induction-deduction, theoretical conclusions drawn from ma...

Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s seminal study The Practice of Everyday Life, the author argues that Dmitrii Danilov’s travel writing (Twenty Cities, 2007-2009) reimagines Russia’s symbolic geography by destabilizing traditional opposition centre – periphery. Rather than depicting provincial world as either an absurd and horrid world, or a repository “true Russianness”, Danilov provides “decentre...

This essay employs a first-person fictional narrator to explore the nature of human-plant relations through the example of Thoreau’s Wild Apples and enacts the transformational process necessary to write in conjunction with non-conscious vegetal life by paying attention to the unthought known of the vegetative soul.

This paper addresses the nature of Australian and Asian identity through an examination of the novel, The World Waiting to be Made, by Simone Lazaroo, the story of a young woman born in Singapore of Malaccan heritage but growing up in Perth, Western Australia. Acutely aware of the Asianness which sets her apart from mainstream Australians, the unnamed narrator in this first person novel struggl...

On the speech side of the bridge is the visual material within each panel. Indeed, the absence of an immediate contextual envelop is a primary factor distinguishing writing from speech. In comic books, however, each illustration supplies a visual context through which the reader easily enters the instantial world. She/He sees characters operating within their world, characters who in turn see a...

Summer with the Enemy is a novel written in Arabic language by Syrian writer Shahla Ujaili and translated to English Michelle Hartman. It follows life stories complex relations of three women Lamees, her mother Najwa, grandmother Karma. describes evolution societies political milieu Syria from 1920s till civil war around 2010s. The starts present time, when young woman, having fled ISIS siege o...