issue 7.8 publication date 2016-11-01

• Editor's Note
• The Tenets of Early Critical Writings on Fiction in Iran
• Revisiting the Past: Contribution of Counter-narratives in Liminal Formation of Identity in Yasmin Crowther's The Saffron Kitchen
• Epic Heroes in Ossian by Macpherson and Shahnameh by Firdausi
• Asgari Hasankloo, Asgar. Time and Its Men: A Critique of Ebrahim Golestan's Stories
• Yaghoobi, Claudia. Subjectivity in ʿAttar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism
• Rhetoric, Comedy, or Shock? Bruce Gilley’s Case of Anachronism