Volume 4, No. 1, Autumn and Winter 2021-2022
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ارسال های اخیر
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The Effect of a Newly- Developed Context-sensitive Framework of Writing Practice on Iranian EFL Learners' Writing Performance
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)The present quasi-experimental study attempts to investigate the effectiveness of a context-sensitive framework of writing on the improvement of Iranian EFL students' writing performance. To this aim, sixty sophomores ...
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Flipped Learning on Reading and Grammar Achievement at a Language Institute in Kerman-Iran (2021)
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)This study seeks to explore the effectiveness of flipped instruction on the Iranian intermediate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners reading comprehension and grammar learning. As the participants of the study, ...
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Postmodern Paranoia, Schizophrenia, and Social Justice in Don DeLillo’s <i>Libra</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)The present article attempts to demonstrate how Don DeLillo's Libra addresses the lack of social justice because of the domination of paranoia and conspiracy in the contemporary American society. John Rawls, the late Harvard ...
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Trauma and Recovery in Shaila Abdullah’s <i>Saffron Dreams</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)This paper aims to analyze the impact of the traumatic experiences on the identity formation of Shaila Abdulla's main character in Saffron Dreams and elaborates on how she manages to overcome her diverse emotional burdens. ...
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Islamophobic and counter-Islamophobic YouTube representations of the British Muslim Communities
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)Based on David Gauntlett's Web 2.0 approach of media audiences, this article argues that while Islamophobic discourses may be hegemonic in the British media in general, and the online media in particular, counter-Islamophobic ...
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An Ecofeminist Reading of H. P. Lovecraft’s Selected Works with Reference to Catherine M. Roach’s Theory of Mother/Nature
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)Ecofeminist discourse is experiencing its peak importance with the rise of both feminism and ecocriticism to the summit of cultural and literary studies. Going back and revisiting authors and texts which helped shaping the ...
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“The Other jouissance” and “Desire” in Emily Dickinson’s “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed”: A Lacanian Approach
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)The present article investigates Emily Dickinson's poem "I taste a liquor never brewed" and aims to solve the confusion of scholars that struggled to specify the precise meaning of some of the terms in the text and fully ...
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Thomas Pynchon’s Southern Californian Literary Heterotopology: Decompression Heterotopias in <i>Inherent Vice</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)Looking back at the early 1970s socio-cultural upheavals, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009) generates a discursive construct of Los Angeles that captures the transition from a Fordist culture to a Post-Fordist one. ...
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Epiphylogenetic Memory as Disorientation in Eimear McBride's <i>A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)This article investigates Eimear McBride's novel A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing in the light of Bernard Stiegler's concept of disorientation. As a technical development, disorientation manifests itself in the girl's ...
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Ethical Telling and the Aesthetic Told: Ethical Narratology of Arundhati Roy’s <i>The Ministry of Utmost Happiness</i>
(University of Kurdistan, 2022-03-01)The present study seeks to argue the ethical values of the narrative strategies in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a post-postmodern novel by the Indian author Arundhati Roy. To carry out the research, the prominent ...