Zahra Jannessari Ladani

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Isfahan

As a novel interdisciplinary study between literature and philosophy of ethics and aesthetics, the doctrine of cides revolves around the tendency of creating an ethical binary opposition out of the cidal and de-cidal practices. The cidal practices illuminate the decision-postponing ones within the early modern philosophy and the de-cidal practices...

Article History Keywords Dystopia Human identity Nanotechnology Technological singularity transhumanism Utopia. This essay analyzes David Simpson's Trans-Human, exploring the intersection of humanity and technology within transhumanist thought. Engaging with theorists like Donna Haraway and Francis Fukuyama, it examines a future where human conscio...

This article seeks to examine the works of Caribbean authors Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul through the lens of Frantz Fanon’s theories on identity, colonialism, and resistance. Drawing on Fanon’s concepts of cultural alienation and decolonization, the present article investigates how both Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain and Naipaul’s A House fo...

This essay attempts to trace the themes of alterity and tragic sensation in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. We offer a parallel study of the two works with an emphasis on the (anti)heroes' struggles with time and the other human as metaphors of "alterity." We present a thematic reading and discuss that as Macbeth is preoccu...

This article aims at a comparative reading of a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets and Mawlana's ghazals from a Levinasian perspective. We will argue how Shakespeare and Mawlana (Rumi) both represent an ethical relationship with the Other in their poems, where the needs and demands of the Other are prioritised. We will also contend that although Sh...

William Carlos Williams’s poetry is known for the vividness of its imagery and the minimalism of its form. But what Williams achieves within just a few lines is nothing short of magic. The intimate bond he makes with his seemingly insignificant surrounding world gives an air of sublimity to his poems. The sense of indefinable awe that pervades Will...

Through its impossible and grotesque form, the monstrous expresses an original sense of the Dionysian philosophical critique of rationality. Challenging the epistemological authority of form, structure, and identity, the monster guides the mind toward a new understanding about the nature of things. Presenting Rousseau and the rider of the chariot o...

Written in the familiar genre of ruin poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ (1818) is well-expressive of the poet’s profound hatred of tyranny. One of the distinctive features of the poem is the vividly visual images it provides of the ruined statue and the desert as the setting of the poem. Focusing on the images of the desert and ruins, and...

Associated with renewed begetting, the phallus is a highly relevant concept with regard to the dying and resurgent god Dionysus. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings are filled with Dionysian images that may suggest the archetypal concept of death-rebirth. Shelley’s Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1815) presents a young visionary poet who becomes a...

Defined as the union of the most striking opposites and associated with Platonic perfection, the term hermaphrodite has a fondness for elevated places. The constellation of the hermaphrodite through the union of the male subject and the female object is a recurrent motif in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems. Such a hermaphrodite in Shelley's repository...

The emergence of fields of study like emotionology, affective narratology, and psychonarratology in recent decades evidences a dramatic rise in research done on the meaning and interpretation of emotions. Affective Narratology as one of the recent fields in emotion studies attempts to identify and account for the figuration of emotions in works of...

Death experience is sketched out as possibility rather than the end in Saul bellow’s novels, and it is approached and explored in correspondence to writing space and authorship. This study aims to shed light on the experience of death in Saul Bellow’s major novels concerning Maurice Blanchot’s elaboration on death experience that he offers mainly i...

We discuss Geiogamah’s dramatic depiction of the evolving train of thought within the indigenous society through a joined study of his Body Indian, Foghorn, and 49—three full-length, independent works. Application of cognitive poetics strategies highlights the potential within these plays to enlighten the immediate past and contemporary indigenous...

Iraj Fazel Bakhsheshi (1965- ) is a contemporary Iranian science fiction writer with seven novels and more than sixty short stories. His works have been published since summer 2005, but he still remains unrecognized and unappreciated, both in Iran and internationally. To start, this chapter introduces this writer and a number of his works in terms...

Associated with feelings of woe and wonder in the face of something that is too complex to comprehend, the sublime is still a highly relevant concept in contemporary fiction. Philip K. Dick’s speculative novels are filled with high-tech entities and futuristic worlds, as manifestations of posthumanist discourses, that instill a sense of bewildermen...

The story of the "fall" in Judo-Christian tradition, particularly the Bible, has functioned as a model for many narratives written by Christian poets such as John Milton. Since the Bible has been written by numerous writers and accumulated through centuries, it is obviously not the word of God, but man's reproduction of it. The story of man's fall...

This paper studies sinthomatique writing in Saul Bellow’s Herzog in the form of letter-writing. Referring to Lacanian theory, the Sinthome is discussed in the study as a system of signification that exploits the unconscious digging for jouissance. Connected to jouissance in writing unconscious, the Sinthome is the fourth ring in the Borromean knot...

The poetry of John Donne is replete with elaborate metaphors. As the products of an age of nascent imperialism and colonization, the metaphors he uses to describe the concept of love demonstrate his deep preoccupation with the question of imperial domain. These metaphors have mostly been studied in the light of his political and religious tendencie...

Dealing with the in-vitro creation of human beings, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and Kazuo lshiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005) share the dystopian tradition, holding a catastrophic view of a technocratic society in a future in which humanity is depicted to be in a state of crisis. This article aims to examine the above-mentioned novels in t...

1. Introduction The present study aims to investigate the potentials of two significant translation paradigms in children’s literature: 1) Skopos paradigm; and 2) equivalence paradigm. The former seeks equivalence in the source text while the latter seeks it in the target text. To this end, three translations of “The Little Prince” by Mohammad Ghaz...

Autobiographical mode of writing informs the works of many novelists, consciously or unconsciously. There are, however, diverse techniques for formulating these conscious or unconscious autobiographical interpolations in literary works. This essay aims to study the works of Sidonie-Gabreille Colette and Virginia Woolf to trace the nuances of the au...

This book has been intended for the instruction of the science and skills of Tajwid. In this work, we have taken advantage of the achievements of modern Arabic phonetics, acoustics, and anatomy in addition to prominent sources on Tajwid and qira'ah. Al-Mustafa International Publication, Qom, Iran, 2014.

Autobiographical mode of writing informs the works of many novelists, consciously or unconsciously. There are, however, diverse techniques for formulating these conscious or unconscious autobiographical interpolations in literary works. This essay aims to study the works of Sidonie-Gabreille Colette and Virginia Woolf to trace the nuances of the au...

This essay will explicate and study Henry Neville‟s The Isle of Pines as one of the most popular utopian/dystopian accounts written in the pamphleteering tradition current in the seventeenth century. The researcher will see how Neville‟s socio-political philosophy was molded in the highly turbulent atmosphere of the seventeenth century. Then, The I...

This essay deals with the fact that The Sound and the Fury and Light in August dialogize the pastoral genre. In this respect, the first part of the essay presents a discussion about the definitions and modifications of the concept of the pastoral in different epochs. Then it will be proved that pastoral and specifically post-pastoral codes are appr...

This article aims to investigate two novels of Toni Morrison, Beloved and The Bluest Eye, by a cultural materialistic approach. Cultural materialists emphasize on the cultural aspects and elements of literary texts. They study issues such as race, gender, sexuality, social class, and slavery. In other words, they put under investigation the margina...

The history of Haiku translation in Iran goes back to thirties in which neither form nor content were of concern. Gradually the translators became familiar with the principles and theories of Haiku and began to translate Haiku more precisely. Haiku has a special form and structure in translation. The translator has to follow that form and structure...

This essay deals with the fact that The Sound and the Fury and Light in August dialogize the pastoral genre. In this respect, the first part of the essay presents a discussion about the definitions and modifications of the concept of the pastoral in different epochs. Then it will be proved that pastoral and specifically post-pastoral codes are appr...

Among literary genres, drama is considered as an inspiring tool in conveying social and political messages from the author's mind to that of spectator and the German playwright, Bertolt Brecht took advantage of this genre to disseminate his ideas. To achieve his goals, Brecht strived to prevent the audience's emotional involvement with the play in...

MLA Citation of this article: Jannessari-Ladani, Zahra. "The Rise of the Pulps (1900s-1930s)." A Virtual Introduction to Science Fiction. Ed. Lars Schmeink. Web. 2012. <http://virtual-sf.com/?page_id=153>. 1-12.

This Study focuses on the relationship between tradition and modernity and their reciprocity and/or opposition in Iranian short fiction. For this purpose, six short stories have been selected from Beshno Az Vey Chon Hekayat Mikonad, a collection of short stories written by the most recent Iranian short fiction writers. These stories are as follows:...

Stanley G. Weinbaum was one of the American science fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s who anticipated virtual reality early in the development of the genre in the United States. The machine in Weinbaum's science fiction plays a crucial role in the production of virtual space and time. Not only does Weinbaum's gadgetry function within the domai...

Stanley G. Weinbaum was one of the American science fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s who anticipated virtual reality early in the development of the genre in the United States. The machine in Weinbaum’s science fiction plays a crucial role in the production of virtual space and time. Not only does Weinbaum’s gadgetry function within the domai...

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 romanti...

Among translation issues, poetry translation is the most problematic area challenging both translators and authorities in the field of translation studies. Translation of poetry as a yet unanalyzed ‘black box’ (Francis 2006) has been a much debated issue since olden times, with many pros and cons and dichotomist reasoning as to its possibility or i...