aghayed al nesa written by agha jamal khansari is one of the precious works pertaining to the folk literature. this book  is regarded as one of the important sources to know about women in the safavid period. not only this book reflects women’s beliefs and behavior but also the relation among women and others in the society. regardless of its conceptual importance, the book has a major structur...

this article reflects the mythical story of “kaveh and zahak” from ferdowsi’s shahnameh in the “rajol-e siāsi” short story, written by sayyed mohammad jamalzadeh in his “yeki bood-yeki nabood” (“once upon a time”) collection, and discusses the similarities of the two. the foundation of the “kaveh and zahak” tale is the eternal battle between “good and evil” and, as the greatest and the most pal...

You may have seen (and ignored) reports in the popular press regarding an article purporting to discuss the relationship between the upcoming American election and strategies in a well-known card game [1], proving that Poe’s law is alive and well. However, this work by Jonathan Falk and Andrew Gelman is a satire of the biases and framings found within certain types of offending research that st...

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...

This paper sheds light on “The eastern context in Lord Byron’s Don Juan. Despite some weakness in structure and form, and despite much mockery, seduction traits, Don Juan is a vast creation in its theme. Always self-conscious of his literary standing, Byron did not neglect to include literary and cultural criticism in this comedic epic. That is to say, it is a satirical work in a comic style; i...

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The subject of this article is the Anglo-Indian community - a stratum population British India consisting Englishmen born in or permanently residing it. In early 1880s, faced new factor political life rapid development Indian nationalism, and community's reaction to trends was reflected satire period under study particular, Thomas Hart-Davis's pamphlet "India 1983" describes hypothetical societ...