This study traces James W. Messerschmidt's concept of hegemonic masculinity in two post-9/11 novels, The Submission (2011) by Amy Waldman and Sons and Other Flammable Objects (2008) by Porochista Khakpour. Messerschmidt's ...

Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and the epic part of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, addressing two key questions: how does Hillman's concept of archetypal images illustrate the major images of women presented in Le Morte d'Arthur ...

This study aims to show the reasons behind the capability of grief over the death of each person and how violence is performative in registering someone as livable or unlivable. This study also uses descriptive analysis ...

The present paper studies J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K (1983) and Jafar Modarres Sadeqi's Gavkhuni (The Marsh) (1362 [1983]) through a spatial perspective. To this end, the study avails itself of a constellation ...

The present article seeks to read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Sadeq Chubak's Puppetry (Kheymeh-Shab-Bazi in Persian) in order to demonstrate their similar treatment of both ‘the natural' and the fate of ...

World literature investigates literary works that circulate beyond their cultures and demonstrates what like-but-unlike is. It considers a certain motif and sees how it represents its cultural aspects. . The Jungian archetype ...

The present study intends to investigate the contours of gender performativity in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), which depicts Nafisi's life experiences in Iran in the 1970s and the 1980s. Drawing upon ...