The article provides an analysis of the spatial configuration Hindi novel Naukar kī kamīz by Vinod Kumar Shukla (translated into English as Servant’s Shirt ). In highlighting argumentative and structural similarities between content various concepts social space literary spatiality developed Catherine Régulier, Henri Lefebrve, Edward Soja, Mikhail Bakhtin, others, proposes to read not only a ra...

Images of reversal twist through many folklore traditions, celebrating the poor fool who becomes king and condemning the powerful to ruin. For Mikhail Bakhtin, such reversals express the creative energy of "a carnival sense of the world." In carnival, laughter and excess push aside the seriousness and the hierarchies of "official" life. Carnival shakes up the authoritative version of language a...

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

Este artigo tem por finalidade central discutir como os destinatários da Provinha Brasil estão inscritos nos documentos que compõem esse programa, meio análise de textos do programa dirigidos para as crianças, professores e equipes escolares. Constitui-se uma pesquisa documental, cujo corpus analítico são cadernos compuseram o kit Brasil, referentes à língua portuguesa, no período 2008 a 2012. ...

The concept of "other" is one of the fundamental concepts of philosophy, especially in the twentieth century and in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Levinas, which carriesepistemological and ontological importance. It was also introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in the field of literature and literary theory. From another perspective, Naser Khosrow developed and introduced such a...

In this article we will explore group conversations at lower-secondary school about literary texts perceived as subject specific problems. We focus on cases interpreted borderline concerning student engagement, i.e., where it is not unambiguously clear whether the students are on-task or off-task. These represent pedagogical, interpretative and methodological challenges in that obvious (to eith...