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How central is the music of Central Asia? Before discussing the music of Central Asia, we need to raise an epistemological question: whose perspective makes it central? Reaching almost 700 pages and trying to be politically ...
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings
Molded after Persian and Indian examples and transferred through a Persian collection called Hazar Afsaneh or Thousand Tales, Thousand and One Nights traveled along the Silk Road to reach the West through the French ...
Intertextual Dystopia of A Scanner Darkly: Philip K Dick’s Novel and Richard Linklater’s Movie Adaptation
A Scanner Darkly (1977), Philip Dick’s dystopian science fiction is a requiem for human identity. For Dick, the mutability of ‘identity’ and ‘reality’ equals the MacDonaldazation of society. In post-9/11 era, Linklater’s ...
Anxious Masculinity: A Comparative Study of Philip Dick’s Scanner Darkly and Richard Linklater’s Adaptation
This article aims to encourage a comparative approach to studying
literature and film focusing on the decontextualizing, as well as recontexualizing
of masculinity. It emphasizes on gender anxieties represented ...
Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities.
The tensions between Islam and the West have a long history going back to the Crusades. The terrorist attacks that marked the post-9/11 era have polarized and simplified this narrative where the War on Terror is mostly ...
Power Play and the Space in ‘Feminist . . . Male Directors’
Benefiting from the tenets of Comparative Cultural Studies, this article illustrates the role of power and patriarchal discourse in Ten (dir. Kiarostami, 2007) and The Circle (dir. Panahi, 2000). Though Foucauldian notion ...
World Wide Web and Intertextual Postmodernism in Media
Shifts in narrative viewpoint or authorial perspective bring about the birth of a new kind of textuality. These new texts (i.e. hypertexts, intertexts) are infinitely flexible and manipulative while shattering readers’ ...
The Adaptation(S) of Adaptation In Fractal Paintings of Farshchian as Fine-Popular Art
Utilizing mathematics and geometry in artistic discourses has been long practiced all over the world: from architecture of Persepolis, Islamic and Renaissance designs to graphic arts of Escher (20th c.) and Persian miniature ...
Projection as Catharsis: God-Adam-Satan-Eve, a Damaged Family in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Milton’s Paradise Lost has been an influential work in shaping Western society and, consequently, family as the base of society. Paradise Lost’s power lies in “‘allegorizing and psychologizing’ what Milton gives” (Murray, ...
Cinema and New Historicism (سینما و تاریخ گرایی نو)
با استفاده از اصول نقد تاریخ-گرایی نو در بررسی متون، نگاهی دقیق به فیلم گبه نشانگر ارتباط بین گفتمان غالب و فرهنگ عامه ی ایران است. علی رغم ادعای کارگردان مبنی بر رویکرد روشنفکرانه و عدم تاثیرپذیری از فرهنگ عامه ، او نیز ...