Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

Famous Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie believes that the role of literature is to instruct and delight. Her realist literary creation focuses on Nigeria’s post-colonial cultural political reconstruction, as well race, gender class in a cross-cultural context, which reflects her Igbo, African “sensibility” certain cosmopolitan stance. The present article comprehensively investigates Adi...

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

With the development of the use of complementary medicine in the world and especially in Iran, more attention is increasingly being given to different schools of natural medicine. One of the schools in which hygiene and treatment is the centre of attention is that of the Iranian Traditional Medicine. Fortunately, this is being given considerable attention by Iranian authorities. One of the diff...

personification is a tool that a writer uses to change the objective position of words into the subjective form. using personification, writers show their creativity. attributing human traits to non-human is the traditional description of personification. in this article we go beyond the limits of this definition. we hypothesized that personification is a process which is formed by many factors...

In this paper we describe the Bovary Project, a manuscripts digitization project of the famous French writer Gustave FLAUBERT first great work, which should end in 2006 by providing an online access to an hypertextual edition of ”Madame Bovary” drafts set. We first develop the global context of this project, the main objectives, and then focus particularly on the document analysis problem. Fina...