What sort of people were the doctors in this country two hundred years ago and later ? How did they dress, speak and act, and how did their contemporaries regard them ? One way to answer these questions is to read the novels of the time : provided, of course, that we confine ourselves to those novels which attempt to portray contemporary life and manners, and which were accepted as such by the ...

Malloy, Amanda, "Scout's daughters : race and creative development in contemporary adolescent literature" (2011). Honors Theses. Paper 117. At the heart of what Roberta S. Trites titles ―adolescent literature‖ – works written both for and about young adults—is a question of agency (Disturbing 7). In Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Trites asserts that adol...

social and economic structures in iran underwent much change in the 1960s and the 2000s. in the 1960s mohammad reza pahlavi launched a reform called “white revolution” or “revolution of the shah and nation”. his goal was to transform iran from an undeveloped feudal society to a developed and capitalist one. again at the 2000s, when reformists gained the power, the existing discourses fundamenta...

The article discusses the phenomenon of multiple reading literary hypertexts. construction electronic hypertext is conducive to creating uncertainty and generates both: story structural puzzles. author on example afternoon. a by Michael Joyce characteristics this type works, which involving reader in process course plot, put him before new challenges. Hypertext multiplies questions riddles, pla...

This article draws attention to the ways in which Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century Iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary Iran by women of the Iranian diaspora in the United States. Besides being a novel on Islam and Islamic rule—which makes it much...

The monotypic genus Linoderus Sharp, 1885 was described based on a species from Panama and since the original description nearly nothing has been added to its taxonomical knowledge. The aim of the present paper is to describe a new species of the genus from Colombia and to report the genus for the first time from South America, adding some biological notes of the species.