This work is a synopsis of an argument for a semiotic approach to theorizing religion. The central argument combines Jonathan Z. Smith’s notion of “sacred persistence” as the dynamic relationship between a canon and a hermeneute with the work of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Mikhail Bakhtin. The argument is that religion is a process of on-going semiotic construction...

this paper represents an attempt to explore mikhail bakhtin's ideas in the process of interpretation of some selected farsi poems by a few contemporary iranian poets. in so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at bakhtin's era, which shaped his literary philosophical views then it continues with a brief discussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, ...

Arte e ciência, teoria criatividade são, sem dúvida alguma, formas do pensar perceber o mundo, de produzir conhecimento sobre a existência, os seres, as linguagens, vida. O diálogo entre elas, entretanto, nem sempre se dá maneira tranquila. Considerando essa questão, assim como dialógica da linguagem, objetivo deste artigo é apresentar discutir incorporação dessa perspectiva, um seus principais...

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

Now actually, I happen to agree with Harre's claims here wholeheartedly. As I shall argue, conversation is a kind of ultimate reality for us. We cannot turn it around to understand its nature in terms of any particular models, theories, rules, or conventions, for, unless we can discuss such entities conversationally, we have no way of justifying to each other that we are indeed applying them ar...