For an internationally acclaimed Indian English poet, Debasish Lahiri, time is a recording of the lingering light, in nature, mind. His recent collection poems, Tether that Light (2022) attempt to follow trail light left selected miniature paintings, particularly Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, and Deccani paintings. The intricate artworks enchanting visuals these incredible canvases have enthralle...

Textuality makes a sequence of sentences communicative English written text. It, nonetheless, hardly becomes major theme foreign language learning in the Indonesian Writing Classes/context nowadays. This study, therefore, aimed at diagnosing “incorrect/missing uses seven elements textuality students’ cause and effect essay. Qualitatively, Politeknik Negeri Padang was locus study. The 2nd-year E...

This paper is based on the general (yet disputable) assumption that the theoretical debate of literature in digital networks has shifted, just as the poetic practices it is shaped after, from perceiving computer data as an extension and transgression of textuality (as manifest in such notions as “hypertext”, “hyperfiction”, “hyper-/ multimedia”) towards paying attention to the very codedness – ...

Metaphor is, in essence, mapping from the target domain to the source domain; from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. When this happens, the entailments of metaphors as well as the contextual information will be integrated into texts and hence form coherent texts. Thus, it is accessible for us to explore discourse cohesion and coherence from the point view of conceptual m...

How do we know when critical terms lose their power? Could it be that some of the fundamental notions of literary and cultural studies have been adopted so broadly in so many contexts and disciplines that they explain too much, and thus not enough? This is true for terms such as textuality, discourse, narrative, and representation, some of our colleagues have claimed. If critical terms originat...

Analogue materials and collage are fundamental to my research practice. They assist in examining peeling off layers embedded within the printed image. The human body represents power, an image featuring a privileged male is representation of that power (Brauer Callen, 2008). Photographs visual presentations these bodies bound by codes set culture certain space time. These have limitations, at s...

While the emergence of new forms performance writing in 1960s and 1970s did not eliminate traditional drama, they radically transformed role textuality theatre. This article argues that when liberated from rules dramatic even syntax grammar, brings an illocationary logic into textual production. The concludes with a preliminary consideration differences between experimental strategies latest te...