abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

Objective: The aim of this study is to predict life satisfaction of parents of children with autism: With self-compassion intermediary. Method: This research is descriptive and correlational. Statistical sample of present study consisted of all parents of autistic children admitted to the center Omid-Asr in 2016, which is 48- parents of the children 4-12 year-old , 38 mothers and 10 fathers acc...

Objectives: Giving the growing population of the elderly, it is important to pay attention to their psychological health. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of self-compassion in predicting loneliness and self-efficacy in the elderly. Methods & Materials: This is a descriptive correlational study. Study population consisted of all elderly residents of Gonbad Kavous County in Ira...

Introduction: Self-compassion is a new concept in personality psychology which it is based on discussed ideas in Buddhist beliefs. The purpose of this study is to predict self-efficacy and self-esteem based on self-compassion. Method: The research design is correlation. The statistical population included all students of Gilan University in 2014-2015 from whom 320 students were selected by ran...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-healing training on self-compassion, self-esteem, and aggression in poorly supervised teen girls. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest-follow-up design with a control group. The research population included poorly supervised teen girls in Isfahan that were for sake of this res...

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

from its emergence till present time marxist principles has undergone great changes since their promulgation by marx. many theorists and thinkers set at rectifying marxist tenets and introducing those of their own while others advocated its main concepts and attempted at improving them. among marxist philosophers who had an intensive study of marxs ideology, is louis althusser whose reflections...