Postmodern literature is thought to be typically anti-traditional and anti-foundationalist. It can said that the major body of postmodern have started from 1950s onwards. The literary features are metafiction, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, writerly text, hybridity, magical realism, foreshadowing, irony, parody, anti-novel, anti-hero, fabulation, surfiction, hyperreality, use language games...

The purpose of the research is to comprehend highly polymorphic notion identity in works Anna Marie McLemore, a Mexican American writer. A detailed inspection his indicates that concept ‘identity disintegration’ concern virtually all them. This aims demonstrate development as process rather than distinct result struggle. Identity development, an ever-changing process, provides us with new avenu...

In this paper we introduce a new spatio-temporal methodology for biosurveillance entitled the Repeated Two-sample Rank (RTR) procedure. It is designed to sequentially incorporate information from individual observations and thus can operate on data in real-time as it arrives into an automated biosurveillance system. In addition, upon a signal of a possible outbreak, the methodology suggests a w...

Originating in Latin America the 1950s, magic realism has become a literary trend because of its artistic and aesthetic values. World-renowned writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Mo Yan have published series masterpieces embedded with magical realistic elements, which draw attention many critics. This thesis uses text analysis comparative study research methods examines eleme...

Magical ideation has repeatedly been shown to be related to handedness, with mixed-handers exhibiting higher levels of magical thinking. However, most previous research has assessed hand preference with a questionnaire measure, leaving open the possibility that the correlation reflects some aspect of questionnaire-taking behaviour and not an underlying neuropsychological relationship. The prese...

Most American respondents give “irrational,” magical responses in a variety of situations that exemplify the sympathetic magical laws of similarity and contagion. In most of these cases, respondents are aware that their responses (usually rejections, as of fudge crafted to look like dog feces, or a food touched by a sterilized, dead cockroach) are not “scientifically” justified, but they are wi...