If you’re over the age of ten or so, you probably got chills when you saw the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, even if you didn’t end up liking the movie. That feeling is due to a ...

“Intertextuality,” a term used in literary criticism, has outlived its usefulness, says William Irwin, an associate professor of philosophy at King’s College, in Pennsylvania. It is, he says, “at best ...

Shahaduz Zaman uses dramatic descriptions to get into the story. The narrative of the surroundings turns the time and place of the story into a stage—in the context of the vast universe, the world ...

JULIA Kristeva, the feminist and critic, is usually credited with coining the term intertextuality. It basically means that the meaning of a text does not lie in the text, but it is produced by the ...

Memory can be stimulated through techniques based on a semiotic approach. It is important to highlight that memory is not an isolated faculty. It operates in relation to other cognitive processes, ...