This two-part paper argues that metaphor in both English and Arabic is defined and classified in almost the same way with some slight, but far from insignificant, differences. Those differences along with the linguistic nature of implied metaphor can be attributed to the failure in translating that type of metaphor from Arabic into English as…

The present study aimed to investigate the frequency of the use of two semantic adjustment strategies; namely, expansion and reduction, in the two English translations of book one of "Masnavi." For this purpose, 300 lines of "Masnavi" by Rumi (2014) along its two corresponding English translations by Nicholson (2004) and…

This paper explores how students, as multimodal storytellers, can weave powerful narratives blending modes, genres, artefacts and literary conventions to represent the real and imagined in their lives. Part of a larger ethnographic case study of student writing in a middle years class for immigrant students learning English as an additional…

Author shows how poetry and doctrine must be separated when reading Lycidas without destroying the feeling of the poem. (MF)

Classifying a work of literature means that it is similar to another work or works, and that these similarities may provide insight into it, or suggest new ways of asking or answering questions about it. (Author/MF)

The growth in production of concordances to the works of English writers and the use of computers in concording is described. A cluster concordance considered to combine the best features of computerized and manual concordance types is described. The need for more concordances to Russian literature is discussed. (RM)

A satirical view of thematic teaching. (JH)

The technical vocabulary of film may often be useful in the analysis of poems. (JH)

Examines the relationship between self and modernism in the context of Sri Lankan poetry in English. The dissolution of the unitary self and the problem of its representation in literature are closely linked to the dynamics of writing in English in a country in the Outer Circle. (24 references) (JL)