Tara Dabbagh

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Salahaddin University-Erbil

Henrik Ibsen’s concern in A doll’s house (1879) is the exposition of what he deems social evils and shortcomings, consequently leaving his protagonist’s future, after she famously slams the door on her married life, to the audience’s speculation. His open ending thus exemplifies Barthes’s seminal argument against unquestioned authorial authority in...

Yeats establishes a symbolic poetic image of a wine-cup at the outset of The Dreaming of the Bones and diffuses it throughout. The image is the concoction of Irish influences and of mystical beliefs sustained by Yeats, for the play does not lose its Irish identity despite its incorporation of formal techniques of the Japanese Noh theatre. As the im...

Henrik Ibsen’s concern in A doll’s house (1879) is the exposition of what he deems social evils and shortcomings, consequently leaving his protagonist’s future, after she famously slams the door on her married life, to the audience’s speculation. His open ending thus exemplifies Barthes’s seminal argument against unquestioned authorial authority in...

The quest for a female subjectivity and a unique female voice that is neither the derivation nor the other version of that of the male has long been one of the main concerns of feminism. However, with the advent of psychoanalysis and its predominance in the world of literary theory and criticism, feminists could finally arrive at the theoretical ba...

The ongoing universality of the theme of illusion and reality allows for it to be discussed afresh and to be reinterpreted according to the outlook of the time. This theme forms a link between Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. One is a Greek tragedy showing the helplessness of man in the face of celestial powe...

The events surrounding Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) exemplify the role of race in the determination of judicial outcomes within a divided society. In this paper, the interaction between race, economic power- or the lack of it-, and social stratification or classification becomes clear. Applying the Critical Race Theory perspective demo...

Christie maneuvers the storylines of Shakespeare's Othello (c. 1604) and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (1613/14) into crime fiction in, respectively, Curtain (1975) and Sleeping Murder (1976), establishing the actions of certain characters as patterns of behavior. Yet, despite the similarities in the four texts, and in accordance with the requirem...