A Dream of a Stone: The Ethics of De-anthropocentrism
De-anthropocentrism is the leitmotif of philosophy in the twenty-first century, encouraging diverse and competing thoughts as to how this goal may be achieved.
Wu Tsaiyi
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Female War Narratives: Studying the Reflection of the Algerian War in the Works of Assia Djebar [PDF]
Having glanced at the history of women’s literature in Algeria, we will now study some women’s narratives through the famous writer Assia Djebar’s works with the descriptive-analysis method.
Farideh Alavi, Zeinab Rezvantalab
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Juri Lotman’s autocommunication model and Roland Barthes’s representations of Self and Other
This paper discusses Juri Lotman’s concept of autocommunication and explores its applicability by referring to Roland Barthes’s representations of Self and Other.
Lei Han
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Features of the ironic detective in Daniel Pennac’s novel The Scapegoat [PDF]
Ironic detective is a relatively new genre in literature. Its development dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and continues up to the present days. The final crystallization of the genre is taking place in our time.
Hanna Aleksandrova
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John Duigan’s 1993 Film Adaptation of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: Repossessing and Reclaiming Rhys’s Liberated Antoinette/Bertha [PDF]
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Charoltte Bronte’s famous novel Jane Eyre. It is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a white but Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in Jamaica to her unhappy marriage to a certain English gentleman who is
Arash Moradi, Alireza Anushirvani
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If the challenges of teaching and learning do not amount to simple empirical questions about effective pedagogical strategies but are instead complex “wicked problems” that may be impossible to solve, where does that leave the practice of backward design?
Michael McCreary
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Two Aspects of Language, Two Types of Comparison: Toward a Rhetoric of Comparative and World Literature [PDF]
This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within the early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand the full normative force of the two terms if we read them rhetorically.
Hutchinson, Ben
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The Cultural Memory of Protest
Review of Andrea Hajek, Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe. The Case of Italy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 232 p., ISBN: 9781137263773, € 64,00.
Suzanne C. Knittel
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A Comparative Reading of Selected Cinematic Adaptations of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman [PDF]
1. Introduction With the immergence and overwhelming outspread of the consumption of the modern video culture, directors and producers have had the opportunity to employ literary masterpieces for their subject matter and hence, reel in huge profit.
Pouyan Rezapour, Alireza Anushiravani
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Cassirer, Benveniste, and Peirce on deictics and "pronominal" communication
For all his profound interest in Secondness and its manifestation in various kinds of indices, including deictics, Peirce rarely addresses the inter-pronominal relationships.
Han-liang Chang
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