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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...