Critical Literary Studies
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The Motivational Self-System of Learners of Kurdish as a Heritage Language: A Mixed-Methods Study
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)The ongoing increase in the population of Kurdish as Heritage Language (HL) learners encouraged the present study to explore the learners' motivations as well as the influential factors on its development. Second Language ...
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Communicative Ethics as the Aura of Post-Postmodern Morality: A Study of Amy M. Homes’ This Book Will Save Your Life and Philip Roth’s Everyman
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)In the postmodern era, there seems to be a pervasive decline of concept of ethics and community, leading to the devaluation of human life and moral values. The recent ethical turn in literary climate, however, has acknowledged ...
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Representation of Duty as an Object of Manipulation in The Bone Clocks and The Buried Giant
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)Deontological ethics emphasizes the connection between duty and the morality of human conduct; nevertheless, Mitchell and Ishiguro touch on a different form of duty, which disagrees with the deontological theory and ...
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Re-reading the Position of Women in Islamic-Iranian Mystical Texts (With Reference to Attar and Rumi’s Works)
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)Contrary to the traditional disciple-making efforts presented by commentators of mystical works, which aim to consolidate a fanatical attitude towards mysticism and hide any epistemological defects, these works have their ...
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Domestic Violence in Allende's Violeta
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)Domestic is a term that encompasses intimate partner violence wherever it occurs and in whatever form. Galtung categorizes violence into three types of direct, structural, and cultural violence. The purpose of this article ...
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Revisiting Foucauldian Discourse Analysis Approach: Surveillance and Individuality in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)This study attempts to examine Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in the light of the ideas of Michel Foucault, specifically the notions of normalization, institutions, and surveillance that tackle the relationships ...
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Cyborgian Virtual: Hybrid Subjectivity in William Gibson’s The Peripheral
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)The purpose of the research is to analyze how the cyborgian theories of virtual subjectivity, dromology, enfleshed materialism, aesthetics of disappearance, hybridity and metamorphic becoming are employed by modern technology ...
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Trauma and Treatment in Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects through Judith Herman’s Theories
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)As an important event in the life of a person, childhood trauma demonstrates its aftermath through post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, besides shaping a person's self-perception and identity. The three main characters ...
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Beyond the Chilly Chariots: A Contemplation of Nothingness in Wallace Stevens' Harmonium
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)This paper deals with Wallace Stevens's first collection of poetry, Harmonium, in light of Heidegger's philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Da-sein as the place of negativity. The focus is particularly on Heidegger's ...
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A Narratological Analysis of the Strategic Affective Enlistment in Hardy’s Major Wessex Novels
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)The present study focuses on the strategic process of enlisting the readers' empathetic responsiveness in Thomas Hardy's major Wessex novels. The analytical perspective draws on Suzanna Keen's theories in affective ...
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Narrative of Obsession: Manipulated Identities, Labyrinthine Emotions in Iris Murdoch’s A Word Child
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)The theoretical discussion of the present paper is particularly based on the insights of Giorgio Agamben contextualized in Iris Murdoch's novel, A Word Child (1975), written in the transitional period of the seventies ...
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The Nomadic Distribution in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Deleuzian Reading
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)The debates concerning Orlando's magical sex transformation and its main concern with gender trouble are ever growing. Yet it seems a very significant fact is neglected in this debate, the extent the male Orlando is different ...
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Table of Contents
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-10-01)Critical Literary StudiesVol. VI, No. 1, Serial Number 11, Autumn and Winter 2023-2024 The Nomadic Distribution in Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Deleuzian ReadingSeyyed Mohammad Marandi; Zohre Ramin; Fatima Sadat Yahyapoor ...
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Implicit ELT Policies Embedded in the Professional Practices of Selected Private Language Publishers and Institutes in Iran
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-05-01)English language teaching policies have recently become a growing concern in several countries, including Iran. Whereas several studies have noted the role of explicit policy documents and texts, fewer studies have explored ...
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The Effect of Reading and Teaching Literary Texts on the Vocabulary Range and Composition Length Development: A Case Study of Intermediate EFL Learners
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-05-01)The effect of reading and teaching literary texts on the development of productive skills of language learners has long been an eye-catching factor for researchers. Having determined the interest through analysis, the ...
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Personality Traits and Translation: The Effect of Introvert and Extrovert Personality Types on Translation Quality of Political and Journalistic Texts
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-05-01)The current study is interdisciplinary research having a psychological look at the quality of translated texts. This work was an endeavor to probe the effect of the translators' personality- extrovert and introvert- on the ...
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Tess’s Language and Her Victimization: Speech Act Theory in Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(University of Kurdistan, 2023-05-01)The present study aims to investigate speech acts in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles based on John Austin's theory. In the present research, the researcher attempts to investigate female characters' speech acts ...
