Applied literature is a term that is the outcome of a need to put literature to tangible uses in the “real” world. A medical practitioner looking for a definition of life, for instance, finds literature a useful source for the answer. With paradigm shifts in scientific studies, interdisciplinarity has been a method to overcome the alienations that resulted from the isolation of disciplines from...

In his perceptive work on the interrelationship between history and literature, Louis Montrose advocates a resituation of texts within their contexts, which leads to "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history" (20). For Montrose, aesthetic works can historicize the past and provide an understanding and explanation of times past, but they cannot provide an ...

Yoji jukugo are idioms comprised of four characters (kanji) that can be used to enhance the textuality a Japanese Shakespeare translation, whether in response Shakespeare’s rhetoric or as compensation for tendency translation carried out at lower textual register than source. This article examines their use two translations each Julius Caesar by Matsuoka Kazuko (2014) and Fukuda Tsuneari (1960)...

This study examines how the discourse of language and gender are employed in describing convenient inscriptions different locations across world. The set out to find out, among other things, is portrayed through convenience inscriptions; specific devices used selected also determining contextual interpretation these inscriptions. Making references difference multimodal analysis frameworks, rese...

This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel West Bank. It argues that study texts serves as a medium through which Zionists articulate what it means to return ancestral homeland. demonstrates how these is implicated cultivation two different structural modes relate ideas homecoming. ...

This paper attempts to explore the impact of Michael Foucault's theoretical understanding history on New Historicism, a literary school that developed in North America later part twentieth century. While Foucault is known throughout academia for his extraordinarily wide range interests, this aims only focus radical perspective and show how linked vital way development new historicist strategies...

This article concentrates on a couple of semiotic approaches working out, the one hand, mediated character reducing interpretative trajectories to actual translation into language narratives (A. J. Greimas) or textuality (F. Rastier), and, other, direct, apparently unmediated passage visceral physicality verbal signifying system, which make semantic and syntactic components perfunctory interpre...

Hermes is a complex god, one that representing communication and, therefore, the god of travelers, merchants, and also thieves. present, somehow, in philosophical tradition hermeneutics. What seems to be proper this lack properties territory considered his own. characteristic he inhabits space in-between, there where game appropriations, des-appropriations re-appropriations played; commerce, br...