Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

abstractnarratology and especially time issue in narration is one of new knowledge of literary criticism and narration in the recent decades. time is the main element of story and text in the linear alternation of events in the story. the french man gérard genette is one of most successful theorizing of time narration who has presented his theory in three forms, “order, continuity and frequency...

“malakoot” story (literally celestial kingdom), the only novel written by bahram sadeghi, is one of the memorial work that has been witten under the influence of “boof-e-koor” story (literally blind owl) written by sadegh hedayat by a distinctive style and during a specific period of time. aside from unique content of this story, form and structure of this work are also remarkable and marvelous...

How can animation be used to promote learner understanding of scientific and mathematical explanations? In this review, we examine the role of animation in multimedia learning (including multimedia instructional messages and microworld games), present a cognitive theory of multimedia learning, and summarize our program of research, which has yielded seven principles for the use of animation in ...

The goal of this research is to develop new gameplays and new narration principles for MUGs (Multiplayer Ubiquitous Games). We aim to formalize a narrative mechanism to generate events which can stimulate the user's physical actions with the real world, and social communications with other players. We first present a pattern to identify the feedback relationship between the real world and the v...

with hisextensiveknowledgeof mythologicalstories, astronomy andalchemy, nezamicreatesin haft peykara mysterious narration, which offers new dimensions and colors in every reading.bahrām-egōr, the hero ofnezami’s narration, goes through sevenstages toachieveself-knowledgeand perfection. this process ofindividualityterminateson a friday by his marriage withthe iranian princess. bahrām’s (mars) ma...

Superficial erosion is one of the main soil degradation agents and erosion rates estimations for different edaphicclimate conditions for the conventional models, as USLE and RUSLE, are expensive and time-consuming. The use of cesium antrophogenic radionuclide is a new methodology that has been much studied and its application in the erosion soil evaluation has grown in countries as USA, UK, Aus...

the present study involves a brief introduction of two literary-mystical works in the widespread culture of the world of christianity and islam. that is, a novel belonging to leon tolstoy's last works, and attar's narration of the soul evolution of ibrahim-e-adham, the iranian prince. the evolution of the soul has in self some outcomes among which, love, life, piety, worshiping, and m...