Pervasive Anxiety about Islam: A Critical Reading of Contemporary ‘Clash’ Literature

A Critical Approach to the Intertextual Reading of Contemporary Iranian Art

With regard to contemporary art, we find that the desire for the singularity and uniqueness of the artworks and the emphasis on its originality has prevailed in the space of critique and analysis of the works (or at least in its most important forms and approaches), which indicates a kind of inner perplexity towards understanding kinship of the works and preventing the development of the intert...

a sociological reading of self-dominancy in contemporary french literature

the contemporary french literature beholds the considerable presence of works which frankly speak of the writer’s “self”. the trinal circles of writer-character-narrator triangle is mixed and created a current of literature dominated by the “first person”. many critics believe this matter demonstrates the dominance if “individualism” in today’s society. meaning, an individual society which plac...

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

1 Critical reflection: a review of contemporary literature and understandings

on the relationship between actual vs. perceived difficulties of a text and iranian efl learners reading anxiety

abstract this study examines the relationship between reading anxiety and difficulty of texts as well as the relationship between reading anxiety and students perceived difficulty of the texts. since difficulty is a relative concept, i limited its definition by sticking to the readability formula. we also took students perceived difficulty levels into account. therefore, in the present study, ...