Abstract This article examines two modern women poets’ ambivalent engagements with Arabic elegy: the Iraqi Nazik al-Malaʾikah and Egyptian Iman Mersal. Although they wrote in different national contexts historical eras, utterly distinct political aesthetic projects, a close look at their verse reveals specter of bereft-yet-eloquent “ancient Arab woman” haunting respective poetic voices. Looking...

A research project on timing relations in prose, poetry and music is outlined. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, a comparison will be made of timing relations in such activities as reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patterning of the produced sound sequences. Also there are interesting parallels to be drawn by c...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine the impact of prosthetic replacement of the ocular surface ecosystem (PROSE) treatment at 5 years. METHODS Retrospective review of clinical, manufacturing and quality databases at the Boston Foundation for Sight. RESULTS 121 patients who completed treatment and had 5-year follow-up data were identified from a cohort of patients (n=199) seen in consultation for P...

Observers often remember a scene as containing information that was not presented but that would have likely been located just beyond the observed boundaries of the scene. This effect is called boundary extension (BE; e.g., Intraub & Richardson, 1989). Previous studies have observed BE in memory for visual and haptic stimuli, and the present experiments examined whether BE occurred in memory fo...

Literary works reference a variety of globally shared themes including well-known people, events, and time periods. It is particularly interesting to locate patterns that are either invariant across time or exhibit a characteristic change across time, as they could imply something important about society that those works record. This paper suggests the use of Google n-gram viewer as a fast prot...

although old texts are distorted or changed due to various reasons such as unfamiliarity of writers who take them away from their origin and make it difficult to achieve a correct edition by using of the manuscripts, especially when there is a unique manuscript of the text or the existing manuscript is different with the other available versions, the correction of each text should be usually do...