A popular interest in Shakespeare has been matched in recent years by an increasing number of computer-assisted analyses of the plays. Although not without their critics, corpus stylistic studies have offered scope and reliability in the study of literary texts, particularly through key word analyses. In this paper, I show how Wmatrix, a web-based corpus processing environment (Rayson, 2003, 20...

scholars of the past have address important topics in the field of arabic rhetoric, including discussions of the word and the sense, a topic from which discussions of the image, or as modern critics would call, the artistic image, emerges. thus, critics and rhetoric experts consider the artistic image (or the image) as a valid tool in literary criticism. a useful result this is the possibility ...

Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and score...

“word-order” is one of the most central concepts in ancient rhetoric and islamic ilm-al-balagha. this article attempts to compare this concept in these two rhetorical systems. in the first section, “word-order” as part of a more pervasive concept of “composition” is discussed. since dionysius of halicarnassus’ “on literary composition” represents the most comprehensive attitude to “word-order”,...

In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre crucefié and De la Saineresse. A fabliau is an amusing short story in poetic form, originally performed by...

Extending an earlier simultaneous comparison of the three Synoptic Gospels to determine the probability of literary interdependence among them, this study continues the investigation by looking at the Gospels two a t a time to evaluate the same probability. The use of OT citations by these Gospels furnishes a standard for ascertaining literary interdependence when it reflects a 79% average of i...

the concept of “form of literary work” highly significant in formalism depends on the two following suggestions. 1) any part of literature, from word to speech, must be studied and known on the basis of its relationship with other parts or constitutes. thus, recognition of structural or original foundation of the works of art is the most important function of any given literary research. 2)...