this article is a postcolonial study about season of migration to the north a novel written by tayyeb salih (the renowned sudanese writer). the novel, season of migration to the north, is the most famous postcolonial arabic novel which has caught the attention of so many literary critics including edward sa’eed, the palestinian-american literary theoretician, and even in 2001, the academy of ar...

This article examines connections between the Protestant Reformation and American literature and argues that Protestantism’s best expression exists in contemporary iterations of self-reliance. The first part focuses on William Ellery Channing’s and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s literary criticism of John Milton, a poet who represents the Protestant ideals these writers combine with American principles ...

The article explores Open Access in the context of recent contributions in communication and public relations theory, notably Bakhtinian dialogism. Increasingly since the 1960s communication and public relations theory have shifted their focus away from one-way, asymmetrical to two-way, symmetrical models, thereby progressing to more equitable and interactive, multi-level conceptual models of d...

“Always historicize!” Fredric Jameson calls this opening salvo from 1981’s The Political Unconscious the book’s “transhistorical imperative” and its “moral” (9). Is this, indeed, the most sacred of all critical commandments? The “thou shalt not kill” of literary studies (above all, perhaps, of American literary studies)? (Nietzsche might have called it, rather, the “thou shalt kill”: in his wor...

comparative literature,when it is looked at by french school ,investigates,studies and compares historical roots of the folk(national) literature with other kinds of such literature.comparative literature research works have always been under each others influence since the beginning of literary activity up to second part of the twentieth century,that is when american literary school was ushere...

This article sets out to explore the dynamics of play in three selected science-fiction novels by contemporary Scottish author Iain M. Banks. Drawing on typology literary designed German theoretician Wolfgang Iser, focuses particularly Banks’s second novel from Culture series, The Player Games (1988), concentrating ludic that inform and form these texts narrative, discursive thematic terms. Hig...