traditional houses enjoy an organizing with inner spaces based on religious and traditional notions of iranian families. space flexibility, readability, introversion, spatial hierarchy and family privacy have had a special status in architecture of iranian houses, replaced with an outward-oriented architecture. the traditional architecture which has had all the necessary spaces for any communic...

Mahesh Dattani, one of the greatest dramatists contemporary age, focuses especially on suppressed or less-privileged people. He is not only a dramatist but also an actor and director. deals with sensational issues like homosexuality, gay relationship, taboos, position women, hijra community. In Tara, Dattani has vehemently attacked prevailing socio-cultural system in India, which poses several ...

BACKGROUND Considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. OBJECTIVES Food-based strategies, which are one of the outstanding medical solutions in Complementary and Alternative Medicine including Iranian Traditional Medicine have been investigated. MATERIALS ...

This study is an attempt to explore the major social and moral concerns of Edward Albee (1928- ) in two his famous plays: Who’s Afraid Virginia Woolf ? The Death Bessie Smith . In these plays reveals protest against corrupt cultural values false concept manhood womanhood .He also exposes perverted husband-wife relationships which lead frustrations nightmares Themes inequality , racial distincti...

t least thirty English translations of works by the German dramatist August von Kotzebue appeared in 1799 alone, and were consumed by an eager public.1 That was admittedly a bumper year, but throughout the 1790s and early 1800s copious novels, plays and ballads from Germany, France and even Scandinavia were translated and adapted by more or less successful British writers. The paradox was that ...

The purpose of this article is threefold: to offer a vision human flourishing in the academy premised upon ‘living truth’, embracing lived experience and being relation; explore counterfactual thinking across life-course, from period compulsory schooling end life, with emphasis on latter; critique practice drawing philosophy provide an interpretative framework through which address arts, work C...

In this article I examine how Edward Bond realizes his dramaturgy of crisis through dystopian imagination in The Chair Plays. I argue that Bond’s idea of ‘crisis’ refers to the ‘logic of Auschwitz’ in an Adornian sense, that is, the crisis of modernist instrumental rationality. His dystopia is a chronotope of the extreme form of such rationality that demarcates the limits of imagination and fre...