This study examined Richard Mabala’s young adult prose fiction: Hawa the Bus Driver. The used Social Critical Theory as a tool of analysis. Examining work thematically, reading revealed struggle major character in is portrayed to have: recognition female potentiality and urge equality male dominated society. shows that author this has drawn characters such way at exposition narrative, she encou...

Abstract This article brings to light a record for the largest known servants’ library of eighteenth century. Found in manuscript list hand Elizabeth Percy, duchess Northumberland (1715–1776), keen collector and cataloguer books, it comprises 131 titles. The reinforces what we know about increased book use among lower classes, particularly servants, but also provides new evidence specific title...

We demonstrate an expanded procedure for assessing drug-label comprehension. Innovations include a pretest of drug preconceptions, verbal ability and label attentiveness measures, a label-scanning task, a free-recall test, category-clustering measures, and preconception-change scores. In total, 55 female and 39 male undergraduates read a facsimile Drug Facts Label for aspirin, a Cohesive-Prose ...

As a profession, we have standard practices for handling reasoning and argumentation. One feature of these practices is so familiar and pervasive that it is almost invisible: the medium of philosophical argumentation is prose. We spend a great deal of time articulating arguments in written prose, and identifying arguments in the writings of others. The dominance of prose goes beyond writing; ev...

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

The article is devoted to the analysis of urban space in a work fiction as an important element narrative, thanks which more complete understanding plot, inner world characters and even author himself becomes possible. Soviet cities modern Russian literature, being on border between history nostalgia, fact fiction, also play certain role narrative. In this article, using example prose Dina Rubi...

English translations of texts associated with Arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of Arabic fiction translation into English as a socially situated activity. Works of Arabic fiction emerged in English translation in the early twentieth century. Since then, this intellectual field...