“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its use in the dissemination, transposition, and authorship of stories within The House of Fame , a text exemplifying the mobility and flexibility of misused or unhinged words, as expressed through sound as opposed to text. By engaging the use and interpretation of sound in contrast to words, this n...

This paper critically contextualizes the open secret of Karan Johar’s sexuality as a key marketable commodity in neoliberal framework ‘KJo’ brand. It examines cultural legibility his sexuality. argues that juxtaposition between ubiquity and maintained silence on identifying serves an incitement enables study role incrementally making space for depoliticized individualized upper-class male same-...

George Orwell is a famous writer in the 20th century England, especially known for his humanitarian spirit. Among sharply written works, Animal Farm of significant value to focus our attention on. This political allegory successfully creates set animal images, with some certain hidden meaning life. New Historicism offers readers another perspective reorient into context behind text itself and r...

The present paper is a critique of quantitative studies of literature. It is argued that such studies are involved in an act of reification, in which, moreover, fundamental ingredients of the texts, e.g. their (highly important) range of figurative meanings, are eliminated from the analysis. Instead a concentration on lower levels of linguistic organization, such as grammar and lexis, may be ob...

This article reviews the social potential of digital storytelling, and in particular digital storytelling’s potential to contribute to the strengthening of democracy. Through answering this question, it seeks to test out the relative strengths and weaknesses of two competing concepts for grasping the wider consequences of media for the social world: the concept of mediatization and the concept ...

This paper is a contribution to ongoing debates about the value and limitations of textual analysis in digital games research. It is argued that due to the particular nature of digital games, both structural analysis and textual analysis are relevant to game studies. Unfortunately they tend to be conflated. Neither structural nor textual factors will fully determine meaning, but they are aspect...