Juan Abdullah Ibrahim

• Doctor of Philosophy
• i am a Professor member of an Academic staff at Salahaddin University - Erbil/ College of Languages/ English Dept.

Being a frequent well-annotated postmodern novel for its psychological in-depth and existential anguish, Alice Walker's (1944-) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) suggests a deep feeling of remorse of unlived life when life is painfully and retrospectively looked upon with an eye of repent and dissatisfaction. The novel's protagonist, Tashi, recei...

The quest for meaning in life has always constituted a big portion of literature. Having Existential dimensions that investigate the big questions of human existence such as death, isolation, freedom and meaning, some literary works like Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918) launch human being's search for a meaning of existence in realm...

White presents a clear picture of a woman who suffers from a traumatic psychological state. During her childhood, she was continuously raped by her father. Such kind of anxiety and irritation White reveals in a series of her autobiographical writings. Due to Psychiatrists, it is a valid view that a significant part of White’s mental breakdown is du...

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) and Martin Amis’ Money (1984) discuss the disadvantages of mass media. Amis uses John Self to reflect the disintegration of the self in the modern, Capitalist society of England in 1980s. Self represents the failure of the postmodern world by portraying a dystopian society. Amis and Nabokov tackle subjects pertainin...

The most central topic of discussion in social and cultural research field today is that of identity. Identity is a socio-cultural phenomenon which is closely related to the sense of belonging. When immigrants move from one place to another, such sense no longer accompanies them, when this takes place, they often undergo an identity crisis. Andrea...

This study aims at investigating Iraqi EFL students' level of writing apprehension, writing performance, and locus of control orientation. It also seeks to find out the correlation between these three variables according to the academic locus of control orientation (internal and external). The instruments of the study are administered to (160) part...

Hilda Doolittle (1886-1946) is an American poet, novelist and translator, generally called H.D. In her Autobiographical novel, HERmione unpublished until 1981, Hilda presents her experimental work in which she imposes a narrative form upon her fictionalized accounts of her tangled personal relations. It is a novel about well-known literary people a...