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As we know, one important component of the methodology of deconstruction involves
analyzing the logic of binary oppositions, particularly those binaries wielding great cultural
and ideological influence, such as presence/absence, speech/writing,…

Religion plays a vitally important role among the people of Myanmar. In this paper, I will use
the name “Myanmar” as a country name and “Burma” for the ethnic Barma people. “Burma”
was the country name before the military government…

An increasing number of international students, whose teaching and learning practices are very
different from that of the UK, is studying in the U.K. This study poses the question of whether
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is the most optimum…

The present study examined the effects of two types of input-based approaches
―combination of pragmalinguistics- and sociopragmatics-focused instruction (CI)
and sociopragmatics-focused instruction (SI) on learners' recognizing and…

The concept of “world literature” can be viewed as insisting on returning to reading a text
without the mechanical use of literary theory. This means, as Zhang Longxi notes, referring to
Kermode, “tak[ing] whatever theoretical help you…

America has long and vigorously been taken up with the issue of cultural identity, the one and
the many. Its literary authorship, Puritans to Postmoderns, has been no less so engaged. Who
gets to say what writing best speaks for the culture? Has…

This paper represents an attempt to consider how artists in general—and Japanese post-war
novelists in particular—deal with traumatic experience and how this process is reflected in
their subsequent literary texts. More specifically, it will…

This paper discusses the relation between film theory, subject and the idea of community
building. I will give a detailed understanding of how both theoretical perspectives in film
studies as well as the artistic practice of film making try to…

Anshul Tiwari’s film Rosario was awarded first prize in the IAFOR FilmAsia Open Film Competition
2012 in the under twenty minutes documentary category. The following interview was recorded in
Singapore on 15 February 2013.

Keywords:…

Mario Garefo’s film The Man Who Fed His Shadow was awarded first place in the
IAFOR FilmAsia Open Film Competition 2013 in the under twenty minutes fiction
category, as well as the competition’s Grand Prize. The following interview…