Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Cover of the original ...

My second and third posts explain that the Executive Power Clause vested the power to execute the laws, and nothing more. As an evidentiary matter, the material they present barely scratches the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment is the official journal of the Association for the Study of ...

Guest editor Gerard Steen of a special issue of Style on metonymy invites contributions from practitioners of stylistics, linguistics, discourse analysis, poetics, psychology, and rhetoric on the role ...

New Literary History (NLH) focuses on theory and interpretation – the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres. Throughout its ...

Graham Greene started the research for what would become The Third Man (story and movie) in Vienna in February 1948, and wrote the treatment as a free-standing fiction in March and April. Carol Reed ...

The city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and back in 2009 the Obama administration took some steps to help General Motors and Chrysler avoid a Chapter 7 liquidation process. There’s a ...

Perhaps the most important paper on metaphor and metonymy was by Roman Jakobson (1956). He proposed that all language is based on two operations. The first is selection, which occurs when someone ...