Previous studies have found a positive relationship between exposure to fiction and interpersonal sensitivity. However, it is unclear whether exposure to different genres of fiction may be differentially related to these outcomes for readers. The current study investigated the role of four fiction genres (i.e., Domestic Fiction, Romance, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, and Suspense/Thriller) in the re...

In this paper, the genus Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963 is taxonomically reviewed worldwide. Bloeteocoris Ahmad, 1965 is proposed as a new junior synonym for Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963. All the species of Bloeteocoris Ahmad, 1965 are herein transferred to Grypocephalus Hsiao, 1963, in which, Bloeteocoris minutus Ahmad, 1965 is synonymized with Grypocephalus pallipectus Hsiao, 1963. Planusocoris schae...

This paper examines the international nature of science fiction. The focus of this research is to determine whether science fiction is primarily English speaking and Western or global; being created and consumed by people in non-Western, non-English speaking countries? Science fiction's international presence was found in three ways, by network analysis, by examining a online retailer and with ...

Trend of Pakistani English Fiction Since Partition to 1970; is a multidimensional effort to not only to highlight the prevalent themes and trends of the fiction , but also to bring into limelight those legends of Pakistani English Fiction, who can be considered the founders of English fiction in Pakistan. The phenomenon includes a lot of names, which are now completely forgotten or are taken fo...

the present article has adopted a critical discourse perspective to study ahmad-e jām’s ons al-tāʾebīn. ahmad-e jām (b. 1049 ad in nāmaq, near toršīz, khorasan; d. 1141ad) was one of the mystics of khorasan, iran. traces of cultural transition can be found in his works and ons al-tāʾebīn is his masterpiece. the book mainly criticizes the official mysticism of the writer’s time. the cult which h...

Religious secularity and Islam have not often been considered in the West as comfortable bedfellows, yet Islamic revolution Iran 1979 questioned assumptions about appropriateness of separate spheres for religion politics. However, within a decade revolution, theoretical intellectual shifts were visible Iranian seminaries, alternative views doctrine velāyat-e faqih (guardianship jurists) which t...

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