Volume 2, No. 1, Autumn and Winter (2019-2020)
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A Review on Dynamic Assessment (DA) in Iran
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)Dynamic Assessment, referred to in this paper as DA, is one of the various methods of adopting a particular evaluation procedure in order to identify possessed language skills of individual learners in addition to their ...
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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 ...
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The Hell in Paradise: Revisiting British Development in George Bernard Shaw’s <i>Widower’s House</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)Nineteenth-century Britain, also known as the Victorian Britain, was the age of prosperity, advancement, the dominance of the British Empire, liberality, and enhancements in diverse social grounds. Through the light of New ...
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Trauma and Narrating World War I: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Pat Barker’s <i>Another World</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The present paper addresses Pat Barker's Another World in the light of Cathy Caruth's psychoanalytical notions concerning the traumatic experiences of the subjects. This analysis attempts to trace the concepts of latency, ...
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The Progressive Process of Kurdish Nationalist Discourse in Haji Qadir Koyi’s Poetry
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)This paper seeks to demonstrate how Haji Qadir Koyi's poetry experienced three different stages in terms of form and content, through which Haji highlighted the discourse of Kurdish national identity. In the first stage, ...
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Revisiting Modernism: A Review of <i>Modernism</i> by Peter Childs
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)Modernism is one of the most significant and informative books written in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an easy-access, wide-ranging and efficient book that tries to explore different aspects of Modernism ...
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Hybridity in Australia: A Postcolonial Reading of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Selected Poems
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The aim of this article is to study selected poems of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the national poet of the Australian Aborigines, in the light of Homi K. Bhabha's postcolonial theories. Using a descriptive research methodology, ...
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The Reconstruction of Truth through Unreliable Voices in Julian Barnes’ <i>The Sense of an Ending</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The present study intends to examine the reconstruction of truth through unreliable narration in Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending (2011). In the process of seeking a fiction in which the narrator is manipulated by the ...
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The Paradoxes of Being and Time: The Existential-Tragic Poetics of Dramatic Literature
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)Theorizing about literature over the centuries has been a significant intellectual exercise of high degree that has, among other things, majorly kept the study of literature afloat. The thrust of theory, on this note, is ...
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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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Richard Rowan’s Search for Other Jouissance in James Joyce’s <i>Exiles</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)This paper traces Jacques Lacan's theory of jouissance in James Joyce's Exiles. According to Lacan, there are two kinds of jouissance, namely phallic and Other. The former is achievable through desire for different things ...
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The Voices towards Identity: Heteroglossia and Polyphony in <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> and <i>Things We Left Unsaid</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The present study attempts to apply Bakhtin's theories of voice to Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Zoya Pirzad's I Turn off the Lights which is translated into English under a new title: Things We Left Unsaid. In the ...
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The Symbolic Order in Steve Toltz's <i>A Fraction of the Whole</i>: A Lacanian Treatment
(University of Kurdistan, 2020-03-01)The present research seeks to read Steve Toltz's novel A Fraction of the Whole in terms of the Lacanian three orders. Its central argument is to reveal the affinity between Lacanian three orders that the characters undergo. ...