The present paper is an attempt to study Randa Abdel-Fattah's novel, Ten Things I Hate about Me (2006) from Judith Butler's performative perspective. The main question of the research is whether the diasporic ...

This research paper is an investigation of Khaled Hosseini's seminal fiction The Kite Runner from the perspective of New Historicist approach of reading a literary work. The concepts of history and discourse, recurrently ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of utilizing humorous versus non-humorous texts on receptive and productive vocabulary learning. This research is also conducted to seek whether language proficiency ...

The purpose of the present article is to investigate Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) within a theoretical context set by Linda Hutcheon's definition of parody. In Hutcheon's view, parody is a repetition with ...

This research paper is an investigation of Khaled Hosseini's seminal fiction The Kite Runner from the perspective of New Historicist approach of reading a literary work. The concepts of history and discourse, ...

The current paper aims at presenting a close reading of the protagonist's reminiscences in Mohsen Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in terms of an eclectic approach toward representation of trauma. Freud and ...

The commitment of literature stirred up controversy in the face of European cataclysm of the post-war period. The significance of literature in political spheres fell under suspicion. It came to be looked at as a passive, ...

The work of Slavoj Žižek includes the highly arguable concepts towards the re-articulation of the Lacanian notion of the death drive.This paper presents an expository trend joining the fragmentary depictions of the death ...

The present research seeks to investigate Shahram Rahimian's Dr. Noon Loves His Wife More Than Mussadiq [1] based on the literary historiographical theory of Hayden White. The central argument of this analysis is ...

Interpersonal metadiscourse is considered as a significant mean of smoothing communication between the speaker/writer and listener/reader. The present study intends to explore the concept and type of interpersonal metadiscourse ...

In a considerable number of medieval narratives we encounter the shared theme of sea voyage, either undertaken for the purpose of marriage, or imposed on the suffering female protagonist who is persecuted by evil-minded ...