José Emilio Pacheco (1939-2014) devoted part of his essay production to reconstruct the past letters and, in particular, was interested Modernist movement. From two anthological texts: Anthology Modernism [1884-1921] (1970) and Poetry. A General (1982), a selection journalistic notes that he published Mexican magazine Proceso, aimed at broadening spectrum figures avoiding keep single figure, su...

The manifesto, both political and aesthetic, significantly marked the map of cultural history. genre, steaming from approximately beginning 19th century, has gone through a number transformations in terms form content reached its participative peak 1920s. Being established during times modernism, manifesto practice gradually decreased at cusp epochs, thus resulting being marginalized, parodied,...

drawing upon some teachings of modern literary criticism and michail bakhtin’s notion of polyphony, the article tries to compare selected iranian contemporary literary and dramatic texts. polyphony, as the potential capacity of a text to produce and reproduce meaning, gives the reader the chance of analyzing the dialogical and narrative patterns of iranian novels and dramas in a new perception....

All knowledge belongs to narrative knowledge, and also local knowledge. Post-modernism can be defined as “elimination of grand narrative”, so in the world of post-modernism, validity of knowledge has become an issue. Local knowledge emphasizes that generation and justification of knowledge has its local features, so it has no way to surpass the dilemma of cultural relativism. Theoretically, in ...

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...