Digital adaptations of literary works possess an ambiguous status in education. Even though they have been in use several decades, their impact on learning is not sufficiently studied. Apart from lacking technological confidence, educators are skeptical about viewing digital texts as relevant to literary discourse. In their turn, developers are not always interested in fitting the school needs ...

In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene may undermine this claim. Tracing some of the historical and philosophical complexities that circulate around the word 'gene', the article argues that in one sense 'the gene' plays the le...

attar is one of the first poets who had seriously narrated a story in their lyric poems. bringing up a narrative in such kind of lyrics is merely a means of a literary form, but can be considered as an epistemological structure. in these narratives and in the progress of their meaning making, attar has effectively used the ruling broking atmosphere of his poems. in these narratives, the atmosph...

in the field of critical literature, siavash kasraie and ahmad matar's poems can be comparatively analyzed in terms of their social background, poetic content and linguistic strategies. applying a.van dijk’s socio–cognitive model of discourses studies, this paper uses critical discourse analysis to identify discourses formed in the works of the poets and analyzes the ideologies and discourse-or...