English Language and Literature
Moslem Zolfagharkhani; Mahdi Rahimi; Ahmad Khajehim
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Through using different vehicles and implements, poets and authors in the School of Naturalism could reflect life’s events and its circumstances in detail. Among the most significant subjects and topics propounded in this school are war, poverty, prostitution, bloodshed, and murder. Naturalists ...
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Through using different vehicles and implements, poets and authors in the School of Naturalism could reflect life’s events and its circumstances in detail. Among the most significant subjects and topics propounded in this school are war, poverty, prostitution, bloodshed, and murder. Naturalists are poets and authors who reveal life as it is and insist on the ugly faces and aspects of life to indicate how human beings are useless creatures who are surrendered to genetics and the environment. This study uses naturalistic qualities and common themes found in War Poetry to compare the poetry of two renowned poets, Qeysar Aminpour from Iran and Wilfred Owen from England. For this, “A Poem for the War” composed between 1979 and 1984 by Aminpour and “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920) by Owen are selected among others. The major qualities examined in this article are as follows: the descriptive details of war and its circumstances; the use of simple and colloquial language; cacophony, and harsh and tough language; and the picture of war’s indecencies, ugliness, and terrors. Results reveal that war poetry in England is basically anti-war, although some epic-tone and passionate poems were written by poets such as Robert Brook and Siegfried Sassoon at the beginning of the First World War, however, war poetry in Persian rests on mysticism and it is epic-tone. Nevertheless, in both poetry, war is viewed as cruel, painful, and full of Naturalistic qualities.
English Language and Literature
Maryam Mirzaei
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This study explores the use of nicknames among trilingual youth, investigating the influence of identity, culture, language, and attitudes on their propensity to assign nicknames to others. This research is cross-sectional and uses survey research. Results reveal that nicknames mirror the intricacy ...
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This study explores the use of nicknames among trilingual youth, investigating the influence of identity, culture, language, and attitudes on their propensity to assign nicknames to others. This research is cross-sectional and uses survey research. Results reveal that nicknames mirror the intricacy of social relations in a trilingual society. Young people’s attitudes towards others’ titles are predominantly negative, while their views on their own titles are more positive. Physical attributes form the basis for the most common nicknames. In this trilingual village, nicknames are primarily given to incapacitated individuals, those with differing religious beliefs, and those who do not share commonalities with the dominant language (Georgian, the native language of the dominant group) and ethnicity. The dominant language group is more inclined to assign titles. Most titles are based on descriptive phrases rather than verbal, prepositional, or adverbial phrases.
English Language and Literature
Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh; Mahdi Qasemi Shandiz
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Albert Camus acknowledges absurdity and the only way to rebel against the fundamental emptiness of existence is to reach freedom and self-awareness. This transition would include two types: passive nihilist and active nihilist. The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of the rebel in Camus’ ...
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Albert Camus acknowledges absurdity and the only way to rebel against the fundamental emptiness of existence is to reach freedom and self-awareness. This transition would include two types: passive nihilist and active nihilist. The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of the rebel in Camus’ philosophy and its representation in Samuel Beckett’s plays. To do so, two of Beckett’s plays, Waiting for Godot and Endgame are examined. The findings reveal a new reading of the ‘Camusian Rebel’. Contrary to Camus’ philosophy, the characters in these works have the courage to commit suicide and do not even try to create meaning out of their lives. They are castrated in speech and communication with the other, contradicting the Camusian definition of absurdity. They parody all Camus’ philosophical assumptions about the meaning of life and nihilism.
English Language and Literature
Zahra Taheri
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This article focuses on notions of ‘dirt’ and diaspora to discuss their relation with biopolitical discourse in Malamud’s The Jewbird and The Mourners from the perspective of left thinkers. Deploying Douglas’s and Bauman’s views, the writer discusses how biopolitics has ...
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This article focuses on notions of ‘dirt’ and diaspora to discuss their relation with biopolitical discourse in Malamud’s The Jewbird and The Mourners from the perspective of left thinkers. Deploying Douglas’s and Bauman’s views, the writer discusses how biopolitics has used the notions of hygiene and dirt to secure its surveillance over the body of its racial other in the West. It is argued that the ‘anti-dirt’ movement, supported by the West to promote Western civilization, affected cultural geography. Therefore, it resulted in the formation of binary structures—such as clean vs. dirty, self vs. other—as well as the social categorization of people. The aforementioned condition leads to the emergence of “homo sacer” figures and the imposition of “bare life”. These figures enjoy no better position than “the inside outsiders” doomed to the status of ‘strangehood’. Consequently, they are subjected to strict exclusionary measures and even death, which is justified in light of their supposed danger to society.
