This article reports the findings of first large-scale study into how dementia is depicted in minds fictional characters. Dementia increasingly prevalent and, absence a cure, requires better societal and cultural awareness. Literary representations offer readers opportunity to ‘try on’ minds, understand alternative cognitive experiences. Stylisticians have explored ‘mind styles’ characters with...

In her article "Human Cloning as the Other in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go" Wen Guo analyzes Kazuo Ishiguro's novel with focus on Ishiguro's analogy between human cloning and people of marginality in contemporary society. Guo discusses the novel's ambience of doubt and suspense and elaborates on how the theme of otherness is addressed by Ishiguro's mock-realism in a landscape of science fiction. ...

tournier, in the novel friday or the other island which can be assigned as the recreation of the novel robinson crusoe by daniel defoe, expresses his own philosophic standpoints by utilizing myths. the writer delineates the solitude and miscellaneous difficulties that the hero of the novel faces, but he depicts the spiritual changing ways in the pacific ocean. making an acquaintance with the is...