this paper represents an attempt to explore mikhail bakhtin's ideas in the process of interpretation of some selected farsi poems by a few contemporary iranian poets. in so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at bakhtin's era, which shaped his literary philosophical views then it continues with a brief discussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, ...

This essay contains reflections on a new book by renowned historian Denis Crouzet children’s violence, and, more broadly, the image of children during French Wars Religion. In under review, novelty lies in fact that images ‘innocent infants’ make part separate plot. Just as novel are Crouzet’s ‘sources inspiration’ young persecutors heretics. The author indicates anthropological correspondences...

The article analyzes semantic and axiological transformations of the classical fairy-tale plot «Cinderella» being observed in such verbal creolized texts Runet distractive discourse as anecdotes, jokes, statuses, demotivators, memes. These anonymous variative speech products are regarded samples so called «naive» gender knowledge. Being an inalienable part Russian Internet discourse, they const...

In May 2014 the first ever Gay Pride Parade was held with tremendous success in Cyprus, a society that is still by-and-large very conservative. At same time, an adjacent street, powerhouse Greek Orthodox Church, organised counter-parade comprising of far-right individuals, nuns and priests which, both terms numbers influence, failed spectacularly. This paradox spurred wave analyses examination ...

Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989), which is regarded as one of best examples in postmodern fiction, offers a new space for re-considering genders, identities and environmental problems by effacing boundaries story/history, self/other, male/female, reality/fantasy, material/immaterial, nature/culture, natural/unnatural, human/nonhuman. Questioning monologic discourses anthropocentris...