THE INNER LIVES OF EARLY MODERN TRAVEL

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Simin Daneshvar's Experience of the Modern World; A Sociological Study of America Travel Letters (1952-1953)

How thinkers and writers experience social realities due to the inspiring effects on the works and therefore on the audience's minds and actions is one of the notable areas of cultural studies. Such studies about women in Iran have been less relevant and, as an interdisciplinary subject, have not been able to critically reviewed and commented on their research findings in the form of scientific...

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

Astrophysics. Ashes to ashes: the inner lives of neutron stars.

The Early Modern Debate

II. Focus on Innateness: a. Central issue: the relation of the mental items in question and experience. b. Broadly construed, how are mental items tied to experience? i. Are all relevant mental items derived from experience? That is, do all relevant mental items depend on experience? ii. Empiricist: All relevant mental items are derived from (depend on) experience. c. Notions of ‘Dependence’ i....