The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...

haruki murakami is one of the most well-known authors in contemporary world literature. kafke on the shore is considered amongst his best novels. in this essay, this novel is analyzed from narratology perspective and in this regard, narratological and mythological approaches are used. to this end, after looking at roland barthes’ attitude towards narratology, the narrative of the novel is shown...

Based on ideas of quantum theory of open systems and psychological dual system theory we propose two novel versions of Non-Boolean logic. The first version can be interpreted in our opinion as simplified description of primitive (mythological) thinking and the second one as the toy model of everyday human reasoning in which aside from logical deduction, heuristic elements and beliefs also play ...

afzalodin badil khaghani shervani and nezami ganjavi are two major stylist poets who had profound influences on later poets. most of the khaghani’s poems are lucid and uncomplicated; but many ordinary people, and sometimes some of educated ones find it hard to understand some of his ballades because of different linguistic combinations and scientific terms he used in them. although, what makes ...