This paper explores The Returning, which is a short story written by Ahdaf Soueif. Returning selected from the author’s first collection of stories entitled Aisha was in 1983. It Soueif’s fictional work. focuses on way author depicts her female protagonist named, Aisha, as nostalgic character. revisits past and bumps into lost memories with husband. Soueif also portrays Aisha’s transformation l...

Traditionally, nostalgia has been conceptualized as a medical disease and a psychiatric disorder. Instead, we argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions. Nostalgic narratives reflect more positive than negative affect, feature the self as the protagonist, and are embedded in a social context. Nostalgia is triggered by ...

Creativity of an individual can be affected by emotions, memories, and associations with past experiences. This study examines the effects nostalgia on divergent thinking component creativity induced olfactory cues memory recall, more specifically what is impact creativity. The participants were randomly assigned to olfactory, & memory, or control groups, completed a test. found that combinatio...

This article examines twentieth and twentyfirst century adult relational interactions with the teddy bear toy. It describes the association between the teddy’s mythological origins and its infusion with a commoditized sentimentality that provides adults with a nostalgic return to an imagined personal and social time of childhood innocence. This analysis further details how the ‘gifting’ of tedd...

Collini has long been interested in the role of intellectuals, and more particularly literary critics, British public life nineteenth twentieth centuries. But his latest book he examines tendentious—though not explicitly acknowledged—uses historical generalization a number twentieth-century critics Britain, beginning with T. S. Eliot, whose vague but pregnant pronouncement on “dissociation sens...