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The conceptual history and geographical reading is used for analyzing the political ideas included in fiction, with emphasize being placed on the first Finnish novel, Alekis Kivi's Seven Brothers. Conceptual history facilitates social research, where the methodological reading provides a challenge for the interpretation of Kivi as a nationalist icon.

Fiction writers, dramatists, and poets resort to quotation constantly in order to create stop-motion effects like Virginia Woolf's and Eugene O'Neill's. Paradoxically, the incorporation of a poem into a movie enables a filmmaker to use words to communicate non-verbal experiences such as grief, longing and nostalgia without sentimentality and thus a well-placed poem can intensify and complicate the dramatic arc of a story.

Various studies and works related to the New World highlights the history of colonial plantations, race slavery, race mixing, poverty, insular communities and survival of the African culture. The studies of the US South are influenced by the concept of nativism that presents a unified, essential colonized native self.

The explanation of two Japanese words Tsikk-burasiba and Joniku is described. The differences in spelling between words are examined.

Literature is a vehicle for teaching critical thinking and interpretation by making students write about literature rather than silencing them with hegemonic discourses. The interpretation of E.A. Poe's Annabel Lee by the students in an experiment indicates the need to develop confidence and conviction in the students regarding their writing that flows from knowledge, for reinventing writing about literature in the composition classroom.

The ability of children to imagine alternate social realities are discussed and it is argued that playground poetry is worthy of a serious literary study. Further it is suggested that the vulgar rhymes of the playground may be a meeting place for adults and children as well as an entry point for a lifelong love of all kinds of poetry.

The speed with which the new category of commonwealth literary studies and its associated themes emerged and institutionalized, despite the objection of writers like Naipaul is discussed. Naipaul's objection was about institutionalizing of an aspect of literary study that has been going for a period predating the Commonwealth Literature Conference of 1964.

The nineteenth century morgue Musee de Police in Paris is focused. While the writers from across the Channel examined and commented on the public display of unclaimed corpuses, the morgue seems to promise an encounter with one's own mortality and displaces death and refigures it as a social problem that the French are refusing to address by British standards.

The early nineteenth century photographic reviewing practices were diverse and numerous. The particular ways in which early photographic discourse takes up and adapts an idea of poetry to legitimate and photography's relation and contribution to Victorian literary culture is presented.

The state of findings in research literatures could be redefined or redirected by the application of methods. The substantive literatures are set off by the limitations built into widely used methodological frameworks to analyze data.

The need for the presentation of the accurate figures or validations in some of the phenomenon, described in the literary work, is discussed. The simplest method for filtering these numerical figures is by putting it into final test procedures.

Literary theory and its assimilation of science is discussed. It is suggested that the recent literary theory, which has shown more awareness and greater willingness in accepting new issues should be encouraged.

The relation of minor literature with its mainstream counterpart is studied with regard to Hanif Kureishi's film My Beautiful Launderette directed by Stephen Frears in 1986. The political and sexual orientations of the characters in the film are studied for this purpose.

The recent opinion piece of one of the pioneer in the field of composition and literature has entrenched everybody in this camp. This opinion overlooks the population that moves between composition and literature that is the graduate teaching assistants.

The issues of generic hybridity embody multicultural literature, while prompting another kind of multiculturalism is argued. It reflects the debates about literary canons in general, and the field of American literature in particular.

The facts of creative nonfiction according to the writer of, Living To Tell the Tale, are put forth. To prove her facts, stories of different works pertaining to the facts are mentioned.

The sudden interest in creative nonfiction showed by the English departments, is described. Examples of genre-fear in various works proves the reality.

The problem of naming nonfiction as a class of written works, is discussed. The concept of nonfiction with respects to its different definitions and works in the category of 'nonfiction' is explained.

The field of adoption writing is too young and as yet too pragmatically driven to have its literary theoreticians. The adoption stories reflecting motherhood and owning of children are discussed.

The anxiety that globalization will inflict mixed, cosmopolitan customs based on Eurocentric fundamentals and alter cultural differences is discussed. Different works of literature based on these aspects of globalization are reviewed.

The role of cognitivism in literary studies and the role of literature in cognitivist approaches are discussed. The issues related to the interrelation of the terms 'cognitive' and 'literary', and the history of cognitivist enquiry, including different models of study of the human mind are addressed.

The history of relations between composition and literature involves disturbed tangle of misunderstanding and hurt. The study suggests that the members who don't actually feel tension between literature and composition in high schools and smaller liberal arts colleges should be admired.

The purpose of cognitive study is combining old and new, the humanities and the sciences, poetics and cognitive neurobiology. The cognitive study of art, language, and literature is concerned with patterns of thought and patterns of expressions and the nature of their relationship.

Issues of versification are considered as an essence of cultural programs. It is shown how cognitive processes shape and restrict cultural and literary forms.

Literature was performed, heard and watched long before it started to be written and read. The role of literature in the coevolution of human nature and culture makes us realize its worldwide presence and its characteristics across cultural divides.

In 1927 a man named Roy from Nebraska established at the University of Oklahoma, the international literary quarterly in English, which is the world's oldest library. A journal known as Books Abroad that provides articles on literary subjects and the World Literature Today are discussed.

Edward Gibbon directs readers to footnote in chapter 50 of Gibbon's work. Gibbon's footnotes are considered a minor part of a Joycean conspiracy to hasten the decline and fall of critical pomposity in the universal empire of literature.