the domain of the study of myths and its evaluation in literary criticism has always been in the process of development. however, myth critics sometimes put theme, symbol, and motive into one structure so that what is considered as a theme in one case can considered as a myth, in another. nevertheless, there is a vast difference between these words, atlthough there is no consensus among the cri...

Without analogizing too neatly, the motivating premise of this book is that early literary critics stood at a crossroads similar to the one that confronts literary scholars today. Then, as now, the material basis for critical judgment was shifting. Where we face the rise of digital media and online publishing, early critics wrote against the background of a rapidly changing landscape of books. ...

Philosophers have long disagreed about whether poetry, drama, and other literary arts are important to philosophy; and among those who believe that they are important, explanations of that importance have differed greatly. This paper aims to explain and illustrate some of the reasons why Hume found literature to be an important topic for philosophy and philosophers. Philosophy, he holds, can he...

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...