This research article makes a Post-Structuralist study of seven of Wilfred Owen’s war poems: these are 'Futility", "Dulce et Decorum est", "Disabled", "Exposure", "The Show", and "Mental Cases”. Believing in the Post-Structuralist fact that language is not static but perpetually in process, and that the texts are plural, open to number of interpretations, this article makes an analysis of Owen'...

This article traces the development of the concept of "audism" from its inception in the mid-1970s by exploring three distinct dimensions of oppression: individual, institutional, and metaphysical. Although the first two aspects of audism have been identified, there is a deeply rooted belief system regarding language and human identity that is yet to be explored within the context of audism. Th...

The use of an approach derived from literary criticism to deconstruct the geographical constituents and meanings of literary texts is questionable. Despite Franco Moretti’s quixotic attempt to map the cartographic implications of various works in The Atlas of the European Novel, there remains a lingering doubt over how in touch critics are with what Jacques Derrida termed “ontopology”: “an axio...