najib kilani is the first writer dealing with muslim problems in his stories beyond the boundaries of the arab world; in his avant-garde novels, such as turkestan nights, jakarta's virgin, and giants of the north, which take place in turkestan, indonesia, and nigeria respectively, he deals with these problems. in these novels, he has depicted the contemporary muslim nations' struggle ...

IT is easy to be aware of Lawrence's great effect on our thinking about social values, but it is difficult, for a number of reasons, to give any exact account of his actual contribution. It is not only that the public projection of him is very different from his actual work, and that this has led to important misunderstandings (that he believed that "sex solves everything"; that he was "a precu...

Ian McEwan, a respected contemporary British writer, sometimes uses neurological and psychiatric patients as main characters of his stories. In his recent novels one can find beautiful descriptions of patients with Huntington's disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, de Clerambault syndrome and also details about some neurosurgical procedures.

INTRODUCTION Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (Moscow, 1821-Saint Petersburg, 1881) suffered epilepsy throughout his full literary career. The aim here is to understand his condition in light of his novels, correspondence and his contemporaries' accounts as well as by later generations of neurologists. DEVELOPMENT From Murin and Ordynov (The landlady, 1847) to Smerdyakov (The brothers Karamazov, 1879-188...

in this paper taqi modarresi’s life and his works are discussed briefly. he is one of the early persian writers in diaspora who left iran decades before the islamic revolution.  his novels have been published both in english and persian. azra-ye khalvatneshin [the virgin of solitude], which was published posthumously in an english translation in 2008 and in the original persian in 2010, both in...

This article studies Sir Walter Scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein. The importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with Edmund Burke and Maria Edgeworth. Consequently, his position is revealed as b...

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has become something of an enigma in the American literary canon. Almost completely forgotten until recently, he appears to be having something of a literary renaissance. A gradual increase in critical and biographical output and the recognition of his influence on the work of Philip Roth and other American writers has se...