“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more]

Los textosaudiovisualesdemandan una combinación de actividades entorno a larepresentación ydecodificación. El proceso se encuentra condicionado pordiferentesrolesen los procesos de producción y consumo televisivo. Se plantea como objetivo de la investigación: diseñarun modelo de producción para las comunidades de práctica televis…[Read more]

Although literature and logic share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts, they have typically been seen to occupy separate disciplinary spheres. Declaring a subfield in literary studies-logic and literature-this introduction outlines various connections between literary formalism and formal logic. It surveys historical…[Read more]

Thomas Hardy and theory of time

Philosophy began the 1890s rooted firmly in the monistic absolutism of F.H. Bradley and J.M.E. McTaggart; it ended the decade deracinated into the pluralistic atomism espoused by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. If this intellectual sea change can be conceived as analytic and logical philosophies inventing their wheel, then T.S. Eliot re-invented…[Read more]

Are T. S. Eliot’s notes on The Waste Land a scholarly resource or a literary hoax? This oft-repeated question gets to the heart of the poem, which thrives on its allusions, whether seriously or cynically. However, scholars have largely passed over the notes’ (and the poem’s) numberings, despite their complexity and superabundance—a panoply of quan…[Read more]