The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of Iran. In this paper I examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poem “This Autumn in ...

this enigma that “how should tort law assign monetary values to human lives?” has preoccupied many legal scholars. in responding this question, two independent bodies of law try to redress the personal injuries in the united states;1-tort law, in which the courts use a case-specific numbers to assess damages, making individual differences crucial and 2-regulatory policy, that relies on a unifor...

This paper delves into the long-debated tensions that critics have found in Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)’s writings, which placed him as a liminal figure between Enlightenment and Romanticism. In particular, I will maintain these are representative of contradictions inherent modern project, argue present Poe’s writings situate texts both symptom reaction to pathologies modernity. To this end, co...

This article seeks to argue that The Turn of the Screw is a sinister parody Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and female quixotic Bildungsroman. To sustain this claim, I will show both Catherine governess are two burlesque heroines who deeply influenced by their extravagant fancies readings romance. also explore self-assumed role as heroic characters in search cognitive certainty. And finally, evi...

the paper deals with kant's conception of moral judgment. i start by criticizing a dominant interpretation of kant's practical rationality in its assertion that choosing, i.e. exercising judgment consists in adopting a maxim; and adopting a maxim is equivalent to acting on a principle, giving oneself the moral law (korsgaard). according to this view, the logical inescapability of choo...