مرور Critical Literary Studies بر اساس تاریخ انتشار
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Automaton and Tyche in Postmodern British Novel: A Critical Treatment of Chance in Jeanette Winterson’s <i>The Passion</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The present paper aims address the Lacanian concepts of the tyche (tuche) and the automaton in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion (1987), and to explore the way the whole novel is based on moments of chance, peril, and ...
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The Traces of Hermeticism in John Donne’s <i>An Anatomy of the World</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The highlighted purpose of the present study lies on the traces of Hermeticism in John Donne's celebrated poem, An Anatomy of the World. Since Donne was one of the seventeenth-century poets and a highly significant poet ...
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Guests in Albert Camus's "The Guest": Essence in Tartarus
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The present article aims to explore the notion of Existentialist essence in the major and minor characters of Albert Camus's short story “The Guest." It also takes it upon itself to investigate the different implications ...
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Gender and Performativity in Contemporary American Novel: A Butlerian Reading of <i>Gone Girl</i> by Gillian Flynn
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)One of the most challenging approaches toward literary works is the feminist approach. After three waves of feminism through the history of literary criticism, Judith Butler has introduced a new vision that is gender-based ...
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The Detrimental Impacts of Poppy Monoculture on Indigenous Subjects, Plants and Animals in Amitav Ghosh's <i>Sea of Poppies</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)Critically reading Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the present paper attempts to explore the impacts of colonization on indigenous subjects, plants and animals. To trace the detrimental effects of colonialism on both ...
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Hannah Arendt’s Human Condition in Neil Simon’s Theater
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)Neil Simon's plays, through their comic exterior, target serious social critique at the contemporary media-ridden culture of America. This research is a study of Simon's theater from the perspective of Hannah Arendt's ...
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Globalization, Risk, and Transformation of Intimacy: Investigating Mark Ravenhill’s <i>Some Explicit Polaroids</i> and <i>Faust Is Dead</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)Exploring how literature represents social context, the present study aims to critically examine Mark Ravenhill's plays, Some Explicit Polaroids and Faust is Dead, in terms of Giddens' concepts of Globalization, Risk, and ...
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20th Century American Family Drama: An Exploration of Image of Loss
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The purpose of this study is to explore the image of loss in modern American drama in the theme of family. The image of loss prevails the post-war era of American drama in three levels of psychological, physical, and moral ...
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Two Tales of a City: London in Ben Jonson’s <i>The Alchemist</i> and Samuel Johnson’s <i>London</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)Adopting a descriptive-analytical method, this paper aims to examine the representations of London in Ben Jonson's early seventeenth-century play The Alchemist and Samuel Johnson's mid-eighteenth-century poem London. The ...
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Literature as a Medium to Foster Critical Thinking: A Case Study of an Iranian EFL Classroom
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)As far as teaching English as a foreign language is concerned, the role of literature as a medium to enhance language learning or to promote other cognitive and affective variables has been quite contentious. Over the last ...
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Semiotic and Cultural Analysis of English and Persian Advertising Slogans
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The scopes of this research were to analyze the semiotic and cultural aspects of 30 English and Persian advertising slogans of various brands and also to reveal the functions of advertising elements used in the advertising ...
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The Intertextual and the Theatrical in Postmodern Drama: A Case Study of Stoppard’s <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-03-01)The present study addresses one of the most recently debated areas in postmodern literature and art, the revival of interest in theatricality. The researcher aims to introduce a few strategies which are used to turn the ...
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Social Cohesion and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Britain: Impossible Mission!
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)In contemporary multicultural Britain, the concept of social cohesion has been a pressing priority for not only politicians and sociologists but also for the various British ethnic minorities. Race riots like those of 2001 ...
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The Afterlife of Edward FitzGerald’s Poem: A Comparative Study of FitzGerald's <i>Rubáiyát</i> and Housman’s <i>A Shropshire Lad</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)The present paper seeks to address and examine Edward FitzGerald's globally-known poem afterlife, The Rubáiyát. Translation can serve as a force for literary renewal and innovation. For many years translation was regarded ...
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Power-Struggle, Panopticism, and Hegemony in Ellison’s <i>Invisible Man</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel and his sole masterpiece, Invisible Man, is said to have been one of the world's greatest African-American novels. It is replete with discussions of racial discrimination, identity crisis ...
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Hybrid Marginality, Intercultural Bonding and Reconstruction of Black Motherhood in Alice Walker’s <i>Meridian</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)Over the past few decades, African American feminist writers have tried to highlight black women's double marginalization in the United States and show how they are subalternized by both racist white society and sexist ...
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Subjectivity Construction through Familial Discourse Represented in Film: A Case Study of Alyosha’s Identity in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s <i>Loveless</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)This paper aims to study the process of identity shaping of a teenager in a family from the perspective of Subjectivity theories. The process of identity formation has been one of the main concerns for various critical ...