Peter Bruegel is now famous as the creator of modern landscape painting, but during his lifetime he owed much of his reputation to the satire found in many of his paintings and most of his prints. From an account of the Low Countries by Guicciardini (Antwerp, 1567) we know that in his own day Bruegel was considered a "great imitator of the knowledge and fantasies of Jerome Bosch." Today his sat...

No single unifying theory exists that explains the plethora of behaviors that bring individuals before the courts on a daily basis. No biological, social, or familial model for criminal behavior is without limitations, or exempt from controversy and criticism. We suggest, however, that it is appropriate, and often necessary, for the psychiatric expert to advance lucid, intelligible, and simplif...

Fantasy sports is a fast-growing, multi-billion dollar industry [10] in which competitors assemble virtual teams of athletes from real professional sports leagues and obtain points based on the statistical performance of those athletes in actual games. Users (team managers) can add, drop, and trade players throughout the season, but the pivotal event is the player draft that initiates the compe...

La historiografía de la fantasía épica sufre vaguedad teoría sobre esta modalidad ficcional, ya que no se suele distinguir otros géneros ficción con elementos sobrenaturales. Siguiendo las teorías Waggoner y Trębicki, este ensayo constituye un intento definir caracterizar taxonómicamente épica, distinguiéndola mediante rasgos estructurales retóricos tipos afines en ficción, para poder saber esp...

magical realism is a new method in fiction. in this method the author uses the technique of magic and fantasy that mixed with reality. najib mahfouz and gholam hussein saedi are the pioneers of this style.one thousand and one nights and mourners of bayal are examples of magical realism method. this paper attempts to examine these stories. magic and fantasy, myth and the duality of the two stori...

shahāb al-din mohammad zeydari nasavi, the author of “nafsat al-masdoor”, as one of the outstanding technical, literal and stylist prose writers, had a great interest in using different innovative and expressive arrays to illustrate his works.  he looked simile as an essential element of fantasy, and a unique approach in presenting themes, ideas and sometimes transmission of emotions and feelin...