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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare's The Tempest is an outstanding theatrical microcosm representing the unavoidably overwhelming Foucauldian power relations in all human civilizations and their intricate interdependency of such power relations ...

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). ...

This paper aims to investigate the role of language as a form of political and social control, and a vehicle for power and domination in Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear on parallel bases. Foucault's famous ...

The current paper provides an analytical study of Eliot's poem, “The Hollow Men." The methods that have been employed in this research are textual and reader-response analyses. The poem has been explored from both approaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...