Literary history — like the history of any art — involves a special difficulty; it is that of reconciling a general scheme of development and a linear movement in time with the problem of the individual genius who creates new things. That has not been made easier in recent years when New Critics tried to expel the writer from the text, and then Deconstructionists called the very existence of th...

This Science Fiction Prototype re-imagines the technologies of augmentation which seek to create a space “overlaid” onto our own with a ‘mixed’ reality. It is proposed that this can be seen as an attempt to build an unseen zone that is reminiscent of the aether worlds of the 19th and early 20th Century. Taking an aesthetic developed by the decadent author JK Huysmans to create a neodecadent pro...

in this study which was carried out in 1974 in isphahan, 3,000 married women between the ages of 15 to 44 who were the residents of the city of isphahan and a similar group of women who were residents of the villages surrounding the city were interviewed. results indicate that the average and the median of age at the first marriage had been increasing steadily since 1959 for the city women and ...

The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers late 19th century, such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Alice Brown, Rose Terry Cooke, Annie Trumbull Slosson, and Sarah Orne Jewett, known post-bellum regional realists, were actually continuing certain elements Nathaniel Hawthorne’s poetics fiction. Describing in their short stories novels England’s demographic, economic, cultural d...