Papers by fatemeh sadat basirizadeh
The Role of Culture in Language Teaching
ICERI2011 Proceedings, 2011
The Role of Culture in Language Teaching
International Journal of Philosophy, 2018
Modernism brought with itself a great change to the philosophical and scientific ideas. Philosoph... more Modernism brought with itself a great change to the philosophical and scientific ideas. Philosophies about time were not free from this change and the French philosopher Henri Bergson reinterpreted time. He divided time into specialized (linear time) and duration. The artist and the writers of the modern era were much influenced by these ideas and Katherine Mansfield was among this group. She made use of new techniques and methods in order to write her short stories. One of the important characteristic of her stories is the shift in time that she uses, and plunging into the consciousness of her characters in order to show their inner time and world. Her characters are either rooted in their past and totally forget about linear time, or they are slaves of the linear time allowing it to influence their life. Her stories show that some people fit very well with the clock and some do not. Her characters perceive time differently according to the age and social conditions that they are living in. The aim of this study is to explore how Mansfield deals with time in her stories and what methods she uses to demonstrate time in them from Bergson's point of view. It will also investigate the significance of time for her characters and will show whether they can fit with the clock or not. Finally, it will analyze how being in a certain age and class will affect the way people perceive time.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation, 2018
Modernism brought with itself a great change to the philosophical and scientific ideas. Philosoph... more Modernism brought with itself a great change to the philosophical and scientific ideas. Philosophies about time were not free from this change and the French philosopher Henri Bergson reinterpreted time. He divided time into specialized (linear time) and duration. The artists and the writers of the modern era were much influenced by these ideas and Katherine Mansfield was among this group. She made use of new techniques and methods in order to write her short stories. One of the important characteristic of her stories is the shift in time that she uses, and plunging into the consciousness of her characters in order to show their inner time and world. Her characters are either rooted in their past and totally forget about linear time, or they are slaves of the linear time allowing it to influence their life. Her stories show that some people fit very well with the clock and some do not. Her characters perceive time differently according to the age and social conditions that they are living in. The aim of this study is to explore how Mansfield deals with time in her stories and what methods she uses to demonstrate time in them from Bergson's point of view. It will also investigate the significance of time for her characters and will show whether they can fit with the clock or not. Finally, it will analyze how being in a certain age and class will affect the way people perceive time.
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
This paper examines one selected play of Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) in Cultural Materialism. His ... more This paper examines one selected play of Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) in Cultural Materialism. His selected play, The Iceman Cometh, is interwoven with the political and socio-economical conditions of the American capitalistic society. O'Neill was highly under the influence and inspiration of his contemporary events and the traces of those events are reflected in his works. He prefers to deal with the authentic American types and backgrounds in his social dramas. The main characters of his plays under the tyranny of dominant power turn into dissidents and resist against the authority or control of the dominant system. They struggle to subvert the dominant order, and since they would be a threat for absolute power they are consequently condemned to harsh punishment. O'Neill represents the conflict between the marginalized group and the central one. His sympathetic tone indicates his intention in supporting the dissidence in social and political activities. The Iceman Cometh is the depiction of the World War's impact on American community. All of the desperate typical characters of this play belong to the dissident group that resist against the dominant order in various manners. O'Neill held out little hope for man in The Iceman Cometh during the Second World War. O'Neill confessed that the United States instead of being the most successful country in the world is the greatest failure because of the foreign policy of the United States during the Wars. The Iceman Cometh is the symbolic and artistic picture of the US policy which brings disillusionment and death for Americans.
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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Mar 1, 2020
Looking backwards at a century of capricious discourses, now after another turn of the century, o... more Looking backwards at a century of capricious discourses, now after another turn of the century, one easily comes to the common point in all Feministic discourses; which all are as efforts to prove women's presence and their equality to men in various aspects of life. The passage of the decades did not mutate the nature of all these feminine studies; just have posed the topic in diverse areas; for the whole body of the Feminist dialogisms and ideas were appointed by patriarchal discourses. This indicates that the current feminist dialogisms are not totally feminine discourses, rather, femininemasculine ones formed out of men's mischievousness saving their patriarchal authority which changes the discourses to a masculine/feminine relation. However, what nowadays Feminism, as a school of thought, needs is a feminine intuition, that is a moment of feminine epiphany, by which not only women will be able to reach a new understanding of femininity but men also will recognize the essence/existence of females. Discussing Virginia Woolf's dialogism in 'A Room of One's Own' and two novels by Zoya Pirzad (Persian narratives of a highly male dominated society) the study concludes that Feminism needs an intuitive feminine epiphany; an epiphany that both sexes should come to in a society, to enable the school of feminism to come to a purely feminine dialogics and be released from all the mischievous feminine-masculine discourses.
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature
The aim of this study is to discuss use of language, existential anguish and despair and man’s se... more The aim of this study is to discuss use of language, existential anguish and despair and man’s self-quest for identity demonstrate lack of meaning in life in characters in the Slight Ache. Choice and responsibility are two important factors for human life.
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature
This paper explains Antonin Artaud's Spurt of Blood in the lens of The Theatre of Cruelty. An... more This paper explains Antonin Artaud's Spurt of Blood in the lens of The Theatre of Cruelty. Antonin Artaud is one of the most famous writers in the history of theatre. Antonin Artaud is considered to be the main contributor to the ideologies of Theatre of Cruelty in the early twentieth century as a reaction to the generic and ordinary ways in which theatre was created In Antonin Artaud's A Spurt of Blood examines subjects that may appear frightening to the general public such as blasphemy against God and the idea of innocence being reversed to lust, or love to depravity, or security to terror.
This study detects the notion of “power” in The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez... more This study detects the notion of “power” in The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez throughout the idea of Foucauldian Panopticon. This implication is approached through the figure of the “double". It is believed that Garcia Marquez's novel is viewed as an original reflection on the use and abuse of power. Garcia Marquez's work suggests different looking toward power both sovereignty as a tyrant and also the Foucauldian one. The article notes that the idea of Panopticon presented in the novel reinforces the tyrant's sovereignty. KEY TERMS: power, disciplinary power, Sovereign power, Panopticon, docile body
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1979 – 1851), the daughter and later the wife of one of the k... more Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1979 – 1851), the daughter and later the wife of one of the keenest critics in England, wrote the novel Frankenstein (1818) when she was only nineteen years old. Since its publication, the novel has been the subject of many literary discussions due to the myriad controversial issues discovered in the novel in the light of different literary approaches; such as, eco-criticism, feminism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, queer studies and post-colonial studies to name a few. This paper aims to discover whether it is a fact that the novel is flawed, mainly due to the absence of forceful female characters. The novel’s schematic arrangement of characters was deemed as deficient simply because, first of all, readers had developed the wrong kind of expectation from the author and secondly, they were not giving the novel the critical, observant reading that it deserved. Contrary to what a superficial reading of the work will reveal, this novel is not defi...
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the su... more Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the subject of much debate among writers and critics. So writers and critics, both men and women have reflected this issue in their works in different ways. From the very outset of her career, Luce Irigaray showed a keen interest in the exploration of the key role that language has in determining how women are evaluated in their society and the position they hold in it. In order to show resistance to masculine values imposed on them, women resort to strongholds such as mimesis in opposition. This paper aims to primarily, trace the backgrounds of this notion, secondly, to pursue the effect and use of it by women characters and to depict in what way it is employed as a means of resistance. Examples that will be provided shall be selected from the play “Oleanna”, a modern play written by David Mamet.
English Language, Literature & Culture, 2017
This Paper examines Eugene O'Neil`s The Emperor Jones in Power and dissidence. O'Neill was highly... more This Paper examines Eugene O'Neil`s The Emperor Jones in Power and dissidence. O'Neill was highly under the influence and inspiration of his contemporary events and the traces of those events are reflected in his works. He prefers to deal with the authentic American types and backgrounds in his social dramas. The main characters of his plays under the tyranny of dominant power turn into dissidents and resist against the authority or control of the dominant system. They struggle to subvert the dominant order, and since they would be a threat for absolute power they are consequently condemned to harsh punishment. O'Neill in his selected plays represents the conflict between the marginalized group and the central one. His sympathetic tone indicates his intention in supporting the dissidence in social and political activities. In The Emperor Jones O'Neill scrutinizes the situations of the Afro-Americans and challenges the concept of power and authority in the White American ideology. Particularly in this play the interrelation of the dissident and dominant within a socio-cultural system is expressed.
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020
This paper aims to compare interior monologue which is a modern technique in three selected novel... more This paper aims to compare interior monologue which is a modern technique in three selected novels. Comparing Houshang Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Golshiri has made use of both direct and indirect interior monologues in his master piece, Shazdeh Ehtejab. An early example in Persian fiction which has a great emphasis on form and techniques of narrating the story. The present study will examine, in detail the creation of interior monologue through the minds of characters with reference to Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab and Virginia Woolf’s two selected novels, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Focusing on the narrative techniques used by these two modernist writers and deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The aim of this study is to show how Golshiri and Woolf try to move deeply into the character’s consciousness. They use the narrative technique, Interior Monologue, in their novels that deals with the ...
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature
The aim of this study is to discuss use of Postcolonial Study on Guest by Camus in the lens of Ho... more The aim of this study is to discuss use of Postcolonial Study on Guest by Camus in the lens of Homi Ke Bhabha. The result of this study shows that The Arab was "imposing on him a kind of brotherhood he understood well but refused to accept in the particular circumstances," Daru believes (80). Due to the control Daru wields over the Arab as his 'transport' to the police and the political context of the region, the two have significant contrasts that make for a difficult friendship to form. The human connection, on the other hand, is undeniable, since the two sharing a place led to the formation of "an odd alliance," as Daru describes it
Metaphoric language in Tom Stoppard`s plays has a crucial role; the nature of language itself, ho... more Metaphoric language in Tom Stoppard`s plays has a crucial role; the nature of language itself, how it comes to have significance within context and how the exchanges between characters maybe interpreted differently by an audience. What Stoppard wants to insist on his plays is the unreliability of language in an unreliable and meaningless world. He goes beyond Absurdism by breaking the distance between audience and the actors. In his play, human beings are unable to communicate with each other, because they are afraid of using a language that does not have a particular form. Sometimes it is serious, sometimes witty, sometimes meaningless and sometimes difficult to comprehend. Sometimes the turn in language from literal meaning to metaphorical meaning is delayed, sometimes it is has hasted, sometimes it is elided entirely. The focus of this study is on the varying degrees of wittiness. Three kinds of metaphor: Simple, complex, difficult have found in this paper. There is a relationshi...
Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences (BIoHS) Journal
Looking backwards at a century of capricious discourses, now after another turn of the century, o... more Looking backwards at a century of capricious discourses, now after another turn of the century, one easily comes to the common point in all Feministic discourses; which all are as efforts to prove…
LingLit Journal Scientific Journal for Linguistics and Literature
Time is an important element in modern literature, has always been one of the most important them... more Time is an important element in modern literature, has always been one of the most important themes of Virginia Woolf’s novels. The purpose of this paper is to look at Woolf treatment of the movement of time within the conscious mind in the novel in title of To the Light House by Virginia Woolf. One conclusion drawn from this study is that Woolf began to use time as a literary element, thereby decreasing her development of plot and characterization. A second conclusion is that she was greatly influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson and that consequently her writing increasingly reflects the fluid movement of time within consciousness. This paper demonstrates that Virginia Woolf used time as a formal element of narrative to show the relationship of time to human consciousness; and she never overlooked the fact that time moves human beings toward death. For Woolf, life is characterized by endless variety and movement. Its exquisite beauty is enhanced by knowing that we humans li...
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences
Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the su... more Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the subject of much debate among writers and critics. So writers and critics, both men and women have reflected this issue in their works in different ways. From the very outset of her career, Luce Irigaray showed a keen interest in the exploration of the key role that language has in determining how women are evaluated in their society and the position they hold in it. In order to show resistance to masculine values imposed on them, women resort to strongholds such as mimesis in opposition. This paper aims to primarily, trace the backgrounds of this notion, secondly, to pursue the effect and use of it by women characters and to depict in what way it is employed as a means of resistance. Examples that will be provided shall be selected from the play “Oleanna”, a modern play written by David Mamet.
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences
This paper aims to compare interior monologue which is a modern technique in three selected novel... more This paper aims to compare interior monologue which is a modern technique in three selected novels. Comparing Houshang Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab with Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Golshiri has made use of both direct and indirect interior monologues in his master piece, Shazdeh Ehtejab. An early example in Persian fiction which has a great emphasis on form and techniques of narrating the story. The present study will examine, in detail the creation of interior monologue through the minds of characters with reference to Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab and Virginia Woolf’s two selected novels, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Focusing on the narrative techniques used by these two modernist writers and deals with illustrations from the novel and its explanations. The aim of this study is to show how Golshiri and Woolf try to move deeply into the character’s consciousness. They use the narrative technique, Interior Monologue, in their novels that deals with the ...
English Language, Literature & Culture
The theory of intertextuality, which is proposed by Julia Kristeva is not the starting point for ... more The theory of intertextuality, which is proposed by Julia Kristeva is not the starting point for the textual interrelations. This paper considers the main traces of intertextuality through literary development. The intertextuality is being discussed in variety of viewpoints and Kristeva's model is applied for studying Tom Stoppard's Cahoot's Macbeth as the contemporary play which is made on its Shakespearean bases. There are many traces that all together prove the Kristevan theory of Intertextuality, asserting text as "mosaic of quotations". Tom Stoppard uses different techniques in producing this play. Stoppard, in Cahoot's Macbeth restates the story of Macbeth, for his political and satirical intentions in the totalitarian social and political context of Czechoslovakia in the second half of the twentieth century in the Eastern Europe. There are many ellipses and compressions to make it more qualified for performing in a modern society. This play can be studied based on Kristevan notion of intertextuality in two levels. There are processes of deconstructing and reconstructing meanings in horizontal level between the play and the audience while in vertical level, this play is enrooted in Shakespeare's works. Intertextuality causes the literary productivity and the excessiveness of interpretations due to the dialogic nature of language.
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