Introduction In 1973, the Australian novelist Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his novel “The Eye of the Storm.” At the ceremony in Stockholm the novelist was honoured for his “epic and psychological narrative art, which has introduced a new continent into literature.” This was undoubtedly true and White’s achievements have been followed by a new generation of noveli...

This article considers the roles played by ethnic mentions, or ethnonyms, in the discursive reconstruction of a former neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, “Syrian Town.” We argue that these labels engage in the production of ethnic difference by depicting a social world composed of discrete types while presupposing a local class divide and a contrasting neighborhood imagined as elite and priv...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND In Lebanon, Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has a major public health impact through high disease prevalence, significant downstream pathophysiologic effects, and enormous financial liabilities. Diet is an important environmental factor in the development and prevention of T2D. Dietary patterns may exert greater effects on health than individual foods, nutrients, or food groups. ...

the phenomenon of intertextuality is the important phenomena critique at contemporary critics. it is a common relationship between two texts or number of texts in an evoking manner. contemporary critics consider this phenomenon of different aspects such as sources, forms and species. religion and religious heritage of the most important sources that inspired poets and writers since ancient and ...

Public spaces where culture is co-constructed and performed by a community of people are rich sites for research on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods of performance studies, the res...

The influence of Marxist ideology has played a peculiar role in the formation Hindi literature. Many writers believed that literary word, illuminating problems inequality and oppression, could awake effective political, social economic actions change an ordinary person’s life. In contemporary poetry there is rise young poets’ interest socially-engaged narrative, which they clarify with concept ...

the sea, have not sharein old poetry very much because the old poet didn’t overstep the shape and the semblance in his word on the sea. thereupon, the sea in the old poetry can note frequently the threat , the swallow , the naught, the foam ,the wave ,the quiet, the sincerity, the roar ,the blue and the mercy ,the expanse, the greatness and things which is similar to those or the description of...

al-aqad was a contemporary prominent critic and writer of egypt who by authoring the book about ibn al rumi life and his poems‚ tried to present thoughtful view points, about this great poet. he believed that ibn al-rumi was a great poet of abbasi era and was a poet laureate of his contemporary poets but unlike his literary position‚ he was not supported by the kings. it is worth noting that be...