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 aims at reading the winter's tale with respect to hegel's argument in aesthetics: lectures on fine art. the researchers try to apply hegel's notion of art to the artistic aspects of the mentioned play by shakespeare. the play's aesthetic values will be examined and illustrated from two differing but interdependent classical and romantic perspectives based on heg...

This article seeks to argue that The Turn of the Screw is a sinister parody Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and female quixotic Bildungsroman. To sustain this claim, I will show both Catherine governess are two burlesque heroines who deeply influenced by their extravagant fancies readings romance. also explore self-assumed role as heroic characters in search cognitive certainty. And finally, evi...

This article analyzes how Offred, the protagonist of The Handmaid’s Tale, reconstructs her fragmented self through storytelling in a dialogic thought process that is connected to intertextual references. She recollects memories and engages in a parodic critique Gileadean propagandistic discourse. implies a transformation involves both body her mind critically deconstructs role regime has ...

When teenagers are given access to digital media equipment, their teachers and film club leaders may hope that they will take the opportunity make films of personal significance. Instead, young people often choose engage in a parodic dialogue with popular culture, process which feels more familiar and/or comfortable them, providing as it does creative space unburdened by expectations sincere ex...

Abstract Fandubbing, or dubbing made by fans of any audiovisual product, is a linguistically and technologically sophisticated enterprise enacted many devoted fans. This study presents the case Miree, 24-year-old fandubber with more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube 300 multilingual fandubbed songs. Using qualitative-interpretive approach, we conducted an in-depth interview Miree analyzed h...

Digital games have become a mainstream medium used by players of all ages and genders. Yet, aging adults are still relatively seldom featured in digital games as game-controlled or player-controlled characters. The representation of old women featured as player-characters in four casual digital games is here analyzed through a close playing. In their portrayal of the four player-characters, the...

This essay examines the initiation ceremonies to which new recruits were often subjected in late medieval universities. These theatricalised and ritualised violence, playing with metaphors symbols toying fine line between representation reality. Why draw quite such attention notion that one was de-bestialising a student (in case of Heidelberg, Avignon, others), re-clothing country bumpkin Siena...