This essay distinguishes flight as a salient trope throughout multiple Pelevin texts: Omon Ra (1992), Chapaev and the Void (1996), Generation P (1999), Empire V (2006), Love for Three Zuckerbrins (2014). It examines through aesthetics of sublime—classical, (post)-Soviet, postmodern. The “aerial sublime” focuses on motifs flight, elevation, their reversal such descent going underground. Through ...

Ovid’s tale of Cipus, the returning general who discovers that horns have miraculously appeared on his forehead, combines narrative elements point back to poem’s early books with others suggest historiography. Cipus’ own hybridity, therefore, figures a generic combination simultaneously invites incredulity and belief. These different interpretative strategies feature in responses prodigy within...

there are few  shiite poets or authors who have defended the holy prophet(pbuh& hp) and his household and have not been under various accusations. this paper examines the contradictory views of historians in introducing shiite   poets, among which de'bel kazaee (martyred 246 lunar) is selected. the paper tries to answer  the following questions: considering all these contradictions can one...

Death is the irreversible cessation of organismic functioning and human death loss personhood. occurs at different situations moments has important significance in various circumstances. The phenomenon present from beginning world it been represented differently literature culture. If we relate only relation to physical loss, narrowed a specific space. But wider spectrum than that loss. Though ...

In his book on Liberalism against Populism, William Riker argued that Lincoln’s success in the 1860 election was the culmination of a long progression of strategic attempts by the Whig coalition of commercial interests to defeat the ‘Jeffersonian-Jacksonian’ Democratic coalition of agrarian populism. Riker adduced Lincoln’s success to his ‘heresthetic’ maneuver to force his competitor, Douglas,...

D URING the eighteenth century Italy was many times exposed to the invasions of foreign armies. Her states were transferred from one tyrannical rule to another and her university towns were often camps for hostile armies. Yet in a little group of universities in northern Italy the sciences were being hastened in their metamorphosis with more than usual speed. The din of war may have been an add...

ferable struggle to live and the necessity of preserving a healthy verile stock probably stated their attitude to their weaker brethren. Many peoples including the Spartans, elts and Romans, for instance, required all newly born infants to submit to searching ?Crutiny to exclude evidence of poor development and physical defect. Some even lri:iposed rigorous tests of fitness, as for example the ...

In agro-food, Blockchain has been recently implemented in order to improve transparency. raises great expectations of data decentralization and better efficiency–cost ratio, integration speed, protection that appear as promises gains all areas. The fundamental assumption was transparency prevents or reduces illegitimate forms power. However, discussions are emerging about how digitization is li...

This study discusses the story of Ashab al-Kahf in book Fadhâ’il al-Khamsah min al-Shihahi al-Sittah by As-Sayyid Murtadha Al-Huseiny Fairuzabadi which there are interesting and intelligent dialogues between Ali bin Abi Talib a Jewish priest. was one Prophet Muhammad’s companions who smart very trusted. The Ashabul-Kahf contains many lessons life’s wisdom for humans consistently maintain their ...

financial policies in major parts of the samanid era as well as throughout the ghaznavid period were very tyrannical and in this period much oppression was inflicted upon the subjects and the affluent land owners in particular. heavy tributes and other financial infringes and demands in this period, which lasted about a century in khurāsān, plundered and confiscated many properties and lands of...