IN WATCHING the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history. The past year has seen a flood of articles commemorating the end of the Cold War, and the fact that "peace" seems to be breaking out in many regions of the world. Most of these analyses lack any larger conceptual framework for distinguishing b...

Rising majestically from the heart of the South-West peninsula, Dartmoor has been described as the highest, wildest land in England south of the Pennines. This area contains the richest concentration of archaelogical remains in the British Isles stretching over 365 square miles of remarkably contrasting countryside which was designated a National Park in 1951. The many relics of its history and...

study more than a third of the abused women had been admitted five times or more. The greater differences in admissions in the ages over 30 might be related to ongoing domestic violence. Several studies indicate that the risk ofbeing the victim of wife beating is most pronounced in the fourth decade of life.' 24 The abused woman, in her exposed and desolate situation, does not always seek medic...

Waking up in a mental hospital isn’t something you plan for. It’s not what I see that astonishes me— I’ve sat through enough loony bin films to have some idea what to expect—but who I am. There have been moments in recent months when I have hardly recognized the desolate woman inhabiting my body and brain; but sooner or later the familiar self would always reappear, sporting her labels—historia...

This article presents an innovative reading of humour within the classic Spanish postwar novel, El Jarama by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1955), typically deemed dispassionate, solemn, and deadly serious. Grounding its interpretation in Humour Studies, it explores undercurrents desolate, almost deliberately non-funny amusement that encourage stifled laughter from bleak situations, before immediatel...

For Chinese college students, Shakespeare’s works read difficult for at least the following three reasons. Firstly, Shakespeare commands a much larger vocabulary than students could ever have mastered, let alone those desolate words and whose meaning has altered. Secondly, early modern English follows grammar that differs from of contemporary English. Thirdly, contain Greek-Roman Biblical allus...

The article examines the peculiarities of use stylistic devices in novel “Where Crawdads Sing” by American writer Delia Owens and their reproduction Ukrainian translation. Stylistic means are an integral part fiction they possess metaphoric meaning, emotional features that help convey author’s idea. functioning aspect metaphor simile were clarified. It was also found peculiarity is presence a n...