ambiguity and obscurity are frequently used to indicate a similar meaning yet there are real differences between them. the ambiguity is an affirmative concept in arabic poetry, and the critics consider it as an artistic standard in best literary samples. whereas, obscurity is a negative concept which results to the lack of text's values of skillfulness. this article deals with an explanation of...

Surrealism and the New Universal Myth During the 1940s and 1950s, surrealists increasingly explored abstraction. A widespread interest in biomorphism (the use of organic shapes that reference natural life forms) was accompanied by a heightened emphasis on automatism. Investigations into abstraction paralleled the search for a new social myth, which André Breton deemed therapeutic, mind expandin...

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

onsi al-haj tended surrealism in the beginning of his poetic life. his surrealistic poems have been told according to the unconsciousness and automatic writing .  so his poems are written with a unconscious style of writing. trusting on unconsciousness by onsi al-haj has influenced on his poems in some aspects. one of these aspects is his language; al-haj's language is an ambiguous languag...

Rather than merely draw inspiration from Surrealism, I argue that Mexican photographer Lola Álvarez Bravo actually subverts some of its founding tenets and iconography. Though archived letters documenting the turbulent relationship with her former husband Manuel Bravo, contend empirical experience incited to deconstruct male anatomy similarly surrealist treatment female body, photographically s...