مرور Critical Literary Studies بر اساس عنوان
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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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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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Author-Function and Modes of Writing in Narration: Reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s <i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</i> and Julian Barnes’ <i>The Noise of Time</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)The present study attempts to demonstrate how different texts with various author attitudes depict the oppressed subjects of Stalin's time. For this purpose, Roland Barthes' notion of ‘Modes of Writing' and Michel Foucault's ...
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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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Configuration of Self-Mythology Through Trauma Studies in Paul Auster’s <i>Invention of Solitude</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)Auster's first novel The Invention of Solitude was significant, in that it not only catalogued his own experiences, but also provided one of the earliest examples of the psychological processes involved in trauma and memory ...
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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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Educational System as a Discourse of Power: Reading Salinger’s <i>Catcher in the Rye</i> in Terms of Adorno’s Theory of Halbbildung
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)Discourse has been one of the most challenging interdisciplinary terms during the past few decades which connects variety of fields of study such as politics, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, and literature. One of the ...
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The Effect of Extra-Curricular Activities on Socio-Cultural Competence of EFL Students
(University of Kurdistan, 2019-09-01)This study considers the enhancement of socio-cultural competence of EFL students by means of extra-curricular activities. In this study, both control and experimental groups included 80 language learners (each group 40). ...
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The "Excess of Negativity": Death Drive in Suzan-Lori Parks's <i>Father Comes Home from the Wars</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-09-01)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 ...
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The Freedom of Commitment: The Role of the Writer in Sartre’s <i>What is Literature?</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-09-01)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, ...
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From Hegelian Ethical Substance to Lacanian Impossible Thing: An Ethical-Psychoanalytic Study of Sophocles’ <i>Antigone</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)Hegel's approach to tragedy is innovative and impressive, putting such a tremendous impact on the ethical canons that has been unprecedented since Aristotle. Hegel studies both the modern and the Greek classic tragedies, ...
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Gender and Eventfulness in Zoya Pirzad’s <i>I Turn off the Lights</i>: Towards a Comparative Narrative Theory
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The present paper proposes to consider eventfulness as a category for developing feminist narratology. Feminist/gender-conscious models of narrative theory have already taken into account a few narratological categories ...