Revels in madness will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars, especially for those looking for more obscure figures, like the German Romantic psychiatrists J C Reil, J C A Heinroth, and K W Ideler, whom Thiher describes in detail since few medical libraries have their books. In his introduction, Thiher indicates his distance from Foucault's "brilliant, influential ... but misguid...

Temporal dependencies reveal interesting insights into the semantic discourse structure of narrative texts. The investigations of literary scientists are, as of today, mostly based on labor-intensive manual annotations. Computational Narratology, an important subtopic of the Digital Humanities, aims at facilitating annotations and supporting literary scientists with their analyses. According to...

This article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. As stated by Tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. Thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

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...

introduction        gāthic texts are a collection of religious songs of zarothustra who lived about 1200 bc. of the seventy two hāts (stanzas) of yasna (one of the five chapters of avesta), seventeen hāts belong to five gāthas. these seventeen hāts have been classified into five categories based on their syllabic meter and the number of the song: 1) ahunavaiti, 2) ushtavaiti, 3)spanta.mainyu, ...