This study aimed at exploring the ontological indeterminacies of The Sea (2005), a novel by John Banville using the postmodern catena put forth by Ihab Hassan. Hassan’s catalogue of the features of postmodern fiction includes indeterminacy, fragmentation, decanonization, selflessness, depthlessness, the unpresentable/unrepresentable, irony, hybridization, carnivalization, performance, participa...

Review of Absent Rebels. Criticism and Network Power in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction by Annika Gonnermann.

Globalization is a term often used to describe the increasing f low of people, ideas, goods, and capital across national borders (Appadurai, 1996; Suárez-Orozco & Qin-Hilliard, 2004). In many ways, globalization has been facilitated by and tied to new tools and technologies. For example, new technologies have played a significant role in expediting transportation and communication across physic...

Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than humans (fly, swim, play chess to name a few). Any ethics for or of robots is therefore a seductive mix of fiction and reality. The key issue for rational discourse is to provide a rigorous framework for reasoning about the ...

medical education play an important role in health of people in 20st-century, but this system has to change overtime. medical education must respond to not only the demand of community at larg but also to changing in new technologies. medical education have been criticized in last two decades of 20st-century, because of producing too many specialists focus on treatment instead of health, insuff...

The roles and effects of changes in syntax on comprehension and processing effort, and the relationships between these two, comprise a large and separate field of inquiry, with the general belief now in place that such changes and variations bring about varied psycholinguistic and discursive implications for comprehension, manifesting themselves differently in different genres.The current study...