American Messianic Colonialism in Stanley Weinbaum’s Planetary Stories
Fazel
Asadea
دانشگاه خوارزمی
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Hoshmand
Hedayati
دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشگاه تهران، پردیس البرز، ایران
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Although America claims to be the savior of the world and itsinvasions of other nations have been justified as attempts to maintain peaceand security, America’s international interventions have not always beenwithout expansionist aims. America considers itself a Messianic force on theearth. This moral aloofness has served as a justification for imperialistprojects. In the light of post-colonial studies, this article tries to discussthe manifestation of America's messianic discourse in the works of a leadingscience fiction writer of the 1930s, Stanley G. Weinbaum. In his planetary stories,Weinbaum portrays Americans as the harbingers of peace, security andenlightenment to the lands they invade. Moreover, Weinbaum pictures Americansas those who bring about reconciliation and, having eliminated hostilecriminals and vicious natives, save all the planets and its tame, pliableinhabitants. The results of the analysis show that the Messianic discourse ofthe US has been so pervasive that it has deeply affected its literature andculture.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50905_3af5eff376773a2c1aef18a05cf0acda.pdf
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The Taming of the Shrew: A Cultural Approach to the Methods of Silencing Women in the Renaissance
Zakarya
Bezdoode
Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Kurdistan
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Cyrus
Amiri
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This article endeavors to analyze how feminine language hasbeen represented and subordinated in the Renaissance. A survey of differentdiscourses during this period delineates the anxiety and fear of theRenaissance man from woman's language. This anxiety is entrenched in thewestern and Christian narratives and myths. Analyzing the Renaissance culturethrough surveying some penal devices for controlling the tongue of women andreading Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, we have delineated howShakespeare has satirized Renaissance man's anxiety who shows his superiorityby attempting to cut the female tongue and hence to make her silent. The comicfigure, contrary to what people in Renaissance and some critics may think, aremen, who try to control femininity by cutting her tongue, rather than theshrew.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50906_058c1aad0570f4234943a9506623ddf5.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22059/jor.2013.50906
Baroque Techniques of Representation in Howard Barker’s The Castle
maryam soltan
beyad
دانشگاه تهران
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Tahereh
Rezaei
دانشگاه تهران-دانشجوی دکتری
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The writers of this article seek to investigate thedramaturgy of Howard Barker in his The Castle, staged in 1985 by RoyalShakespeare Theatre, in order to discover and lay bare the baroque techniquesof representation in this political paly. Relying on Deleuze’s idea of baroquearchitecture and Foucault’s theories of baroque representation, the writers tryto introduce this play as the expression of the delicacy, intricacy and dreadof the baroque architecture of the labyrinthine castle. The castle is theminiature image of the way the fictive world of the play takes shape. Thearticle concludes that, Barker’s political theatre, unlike the popular notionsof political drama which take representation of outer reality as the criterionof political art, views representation of representation as the only feasiblekind of representation and by rejecting the possibility and even practicalityof representing the real world, moves towards the creation of a play rich withthe convolutedness of baroque architecture.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50907_3b73f8f82603143628c6f5532947aa75.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.22059/jor.2013.50907
The Effects of American Consumerism on Mexican Youth Life Style; A Semiological Analysis of the Movie “Season of Ducks”
Maryam
Haghroosta
دانشکده زبان ها و ادبیات خارجی-دکترای ادبیات آمریکای لاتین
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Ali
Gholi Baghshahi
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Nowadays, a well-known phenomena thatinfluences the life style of many all around the world is “Americanconsumerism” which can be taken into consideration as a global trend. Themodern age is featured with the effect of technological advances in all aspectsof life whether in life style or consumption pattern. The Mexican society andthe youth in particular are not an exception in this regard. Having a longgeographical border with the USA, and acting as a bridge connecting the LatinAmericas with it's northern neighbors, has intensified these trends of changesin Mexico. Therefore, taking into consideration the different and wide aspectsof globalization; the present study surveys one of the indices of globalizationnamely “cultural globalization in line with Americanization” in Mexicansociety. To this end,the research theoretically of the present study is basedupon ideas from Anthony Giddens and Ronald Robertson. In this way, and based onthe symbols employed in the movie “The Season of Ducks”, Roland Barthes’ssemiology method – preliminary and secondary reasons - were used.The mainquestion of the study is to survey the effect of consumerist culture andAmerican life style on Mexican youth’s life. The question is answered based onthe analyses of the surveys of the available symbols.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50908_90e35a495b4db54ab217fa2a24146f33.pdf
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Jamalzadeh and a Multi-Figured Narrator
samira
Sasani
دانشگاه شیراز
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From narratological point of view, among Jamalzadeh's Old andNew short stories, "RottenSalt" has a significant narrator which can be nicely studied through thelight of the theories of two narratologists: Gerard Genette and Robyn R.Warhol. Based on Genette's proposed factors, the narrator of "RottenSalt" changes so many times in the'level' and 'distance' of narration that, based on Warhol's theory, the genderof the narrator also changes throughout the story. So, some parts of thenarrative are narrated by a female voice and some parts by a male voice. Thus,it is as if the narrative were written by a female author together withJamalzadeh, while we know that it was just written by Jamalzadeh; however withmore investigation, the aim and the reason of the employment of thismulti-figured narrator is clarified.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50909_8ad50d15a619ebac2d70d4ae03aea74e.pdf
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Analysis of Husserl's Phenomenological Theory in The Little Prince
Ali Akbar
Sam Khanyani
زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه بیرجند
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One important aspect of The Little Prince by Antoinede Saint-Exupery 1900 -1944) is a phenomenological approach on the story thatneeds to be analyzed for a clear understanding of the text. According to manysearches in valid English and Persian data bases it seems that this aspect of TheLittle Prince hasn’t been of interest to domestic and foreign researchers.This descriptive- analytical study demonstrates that the personality of thelittle prince is indeed the philosophical inner child of the author (thenarrator) which at first proves himself through a philosophical action.Analysis of the behavior, speech, mind and characteristic of the little princeand other positive characters of the story and also the portrayal of the littleprince proves that this story has been written under the influence ofphenomenological theory. Emphasize on the natural power of child recognition,disregarding the appearance of every concept and emphasizing of the littleprince on its origin, non-compliance of the images of hat and box with theirtrue signified, criticizing consciousness and diverting the reader’s attentionto genuine recognition of phenomena and values and social norms are all someevidence-based signs of phenomenological approach in The Little Prince.Also some concepts such as domestication action, symbolic places like theplanets and stars, Africa, natural forest, desert and oasis and so on can be analyzedin terms of phenomenological theory.
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https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_50910_8b5944d5aca24e670e5d7ff7255b1d8a.pdf
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Translation; A Vehicle for Traveling to the Other Side
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Translation is an activity that crystalizes borders. In aworld with good translations, there are no borders but the wall is not made ofconcrete. There are boundaries but crystal walls that has emerged from the workof translators. In a world, where borders is inevitable translation is a way tocleanse borders of factious and desperate. If we translate in accordance to thetheory of Antoine Berman, a translation of the idea of preserving the structure andidentity of the source language, the culture, the land and the other in anattempt to open up where the alien is a lovely lived in. Thus we find that thestudy of comparative literature and literary translation is similar.
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Identity and Multiculturalism in Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man
Seyed Mohammad
Marandi
دانشگاه تهران
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Hossein
Pirnajmuddin
دانشگاه اصفهان، هیئت علمی، دکترای ادبیات انگلیسی
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zahra
Taheri
دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکدة زبانها و ادبیات خارجی، دانشگاه تهران، تهران، ایران
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This article focuses on Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Manin anattempt to see whether Smith is for the multiculturalist discourse orcriticizes it. To this end, two major themes of “identity” and “space” areexamined. It is argued that Smith offers a counter-narrative to oppose ratherthan support multiculturalism. In fact, what is known as multiculturalistaspects of Smith’s work is just a mere reflection of the hybrid, postmodernworld. By foregrounding the role of capital, race, religion, and gender, Smithtries to unmask the very policy this discursive practice tries to hide. Sheattempts to expose multiculturalism as a kind of “micro-colonialism” or a newversion of capitalist imperialism by casting light on contradictions inherentin it. However, this is complicated by the fact that Smith herself is by andlarge under the impact of liberal humanism which has affected multiculturalismin different ways.
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“The Presence of the Past” in “A Plant in Quarantine”
Ahad
Mehrvand
Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University
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Amin
Pourhasan
دانشگاه شهید مدنی آذربایجان، دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی
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As a contemporary fiction writer, Bizhan Najdi is lessappreciated despite the fact that his short stories are of significant depthand deserve close examination. Through the poetic language, “A Plant inQuarantine” creates a situation which provides a fertile ground to inspect therelation between past and present. A deep analysis of this relationship is themain focus of this paper. In this study, using the theories of Hegel, Foucault,and Hutcheon concerning Historical approach, and provided with the literarypractice of Greenblatt and Montrose, the incidents and characters of the storyare put into the intricate socio-historical context in which the writer lived,and then the active role of history is analyzed. The findings of the paper showthat the unpleasant presence of the main character’s ancestral past is thecause of his predicaments. Such a reading of the story introduces history as anactive agent of the present.
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Two Themes of "Water" and "Fire" in "Nocturnal Harmony of Wood Orchestra"
Elahe Sadate
Hashemi
دانشجوی دکترای ادبیات فرانسه، دانشکدة زبانها و ادبیات خارجی، دانشگاه تهران، ایران
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Zhale
Kahnemoei Por
دانشگاه تهران- دانشکده ی زبان های خارجی
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Thematic Criticism is akind of approach in literary criticism, which was innovated in the 1950s. It isregarded as the prelude of New Criticism. The founder of such a criticism isGaston Bachelard. Bachelard investigates the unconscious images of the textwhich have formed out of the imaginary concept of the material. In Bachelard'sopinion, four elements make up man's fantasy. In the present paper, consideringBachelard's approach we tried to study two themes of 'water' and 'fire' in"Nocturnal Harmony for Wood Orchestra". In this novel, water is the symbol of Deathand Life and fire shows images of death and destruction and also punishment.But there are some instances of showing death by water.
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