In her article "The Significance of the Variation Theory in Cross-Cultural Communication" Yi Wan analyzes some problems that East-West Comparative Literature, as a discipline, has encountered and discusses the significance of the development of the Variation Theory, proposed by Shunqing Cao. The author aims to explore two important points of this new platform, namely, heterogeneity and variatio...

This article suggests a conceptual reflection on narrativity and its role in different cultural spheres. Therefore, dialogue between three traditions is proposed: literary, anthropological cognitive, to bring some elements of the cognitive paradigm closer tradition literary studies, theory authors that could be identified with philosophical anthropology. approach pretends critically examine con...

many students are being faced to some problems in instructive skills such as reading and comprehension especially when they study literary texts, [1]both in school and university. to solve this problem, such skills should [2]be taught with a method that the learner(s) has an active relation to the text and its components. he (she) should be able to make a connection between the text and his (he...

since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...

This article contributes to the use of the novel as an interpretive resource in legal and social history. It focuses on an issue which appears to have been neglected amid the rich skeins of recent debate. Particularly in relation to criminal defence, from the debate in the run-up to the advent of general legal representation in the Prisoners’ Counsel Act 1836 through to James Fitzjames Stephen’...