Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. I, No. 1, Autumn and Winter, 2019

CLCS received its license from the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on 5/6/1397 (28 August, 2018) with the license Number 79848.

ISSN: 2645-3533

Mailing Address 308, English Department Faculty of Language and Literature University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Contact Postal Code: 6617715175 Phone: 0098-87-33664600 Fax: +98 87 33660077 Email: [email protected] http://clcs.uok.ac.ir/

Publisher University of Kurdistan Faculty of Language and Literature Department of English Language and Literature, and Linguistics

Director-in-Charge Bakhtiar Sadjadi Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj

Editor-in-Chief Jalal Sokhanvar Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University English Editor Farzad Boobani Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Guilan

Persian Editor Mostafa Hosseini Assistant Professor of English Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan

Executive Manager Sajed Hosseini Graduate Student of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj

Moalem Publishing House Design by Sajed Hosseini © 2019 University of Kurdistan

Editorial Board

Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Language and Literature, University

Alireza Anushirvani, Staff Member of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature,

Professor of Comparative Literature, Shiraz University

Syed Ahmad Parsa, Professor of Persian Literature, University of Kurdistan

Fazel Asadi Amjad, Professor of English Literature, Kharazmi University

Naser Maleki, Professor of English Literature, Razi University

Shide Ahmadzade, Associate Professor of English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University

Amirali Nojoumian, Associate Professor of English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University

Behzad Barkat, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Guilan

Alireza Farahbakhsh, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Guilan

Naser maleki, Associate Professor of English Literature, Razi University

Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Esfahan

Azra Ghandeharion, Associate Professor of English Literature, FerdowsiUniversity

Jaffer Sheikholislami, Associate Professor of Language Studies, Carleton University

Yadgar Karimi, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Kurdistan

Ebrahim Badakhshan, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Kurdistan

Jamal Mohammadi, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Kurdistan

Reviewers of the Current Issue

Dr. Mohammad Ahmadnejad, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Dr. Shohre Chavoshian, , Tehran North Branch, Tehran, Iran

Dr. Meymanat Daneshvari, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch, Mashhad, Iran

Dr. Masoud Dehghan, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Dr. Farah Ghaderi, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Dr. Jamil Jafari, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Dr. Yadgar Karimi, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Dr. Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Dr. Zanyar Naghshbandi, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

Dr. Zadmehr Torabi, University of Sistan and Baluchistan, , Iran

Dr. Hiva Weisi, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Dr. Roya Yaghubi, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Roudehen, Iran

Submission Guidelines

Aims and Scope: CLCS aims to be leading academic and professional journal of Iran in the field of English literature and contemporary literary and cultural studies. This means playing a creative role in the academic discourse by disseminating research on a global scale, and an ability to combine quality and innovation. CLCS aims at reporting high-quality theoretical and original research contributions for the benefit of academic researchers in the field of Literature and Cultural Studies. The journal consists of both researchers in specific fields and multidisciplinary researchers of long-standing and emerging knowledge. The scope includes theories and practices in Literary Criticism and Theory, Literary Movements, Schools, and Genres, Critical Approaches and Concepts, Cultural Studies, Artistic Genres, Cultural Products, and Practical Reading of Literary and Cultural Texts. CLCS focuses on comparative literature with an interdisciplinary nature. The journal welcomes research works concerning English literature on one hand and the literature in Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, and Arabic on the other hand. Additionally, interdisciplinarity is of central interest to the papers published by the CLCS journal. Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word and submitted online in order to be read by CLCS Editorial Board. Papers submitted to this journal must be original, and should not be previously submitted to any other journals. The Author is supposed to upload the title page as a supplementary file for the editor to review in order to assure blind review. After receiving submission request (Microsoft Word File), an e-mail would be sent to the Author.

If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail, please attempt to send your file for the second time. Hereafter, authors must be waiting for approval of their work before publication. To submit you papers to CLCS, you should first register and then login at: http://clcs.uok.ac.ir/ Paper Selection and Publication Process: The editors have the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions. After publication, the corresponding author will receive a hard copies of the journal free of charge. If more copies are desired, please contact the editor before making an order. A PDF version of the journal is available for download on the journal’s webpage. Manuscript Review: Both reviewer and author’s identification would be anonymous. Paper will be reviewed by at least two of the editorial board. The review process takes less than eight weeks. Notification of the result of review will be sent by e-mail. Copyright and Offprint: With first publication the copyrights for an article goes to CLCS. However authors have rights to reuse, archive, and distribute their own articles after publication. Subsequently, the journal takes no responsibility about after published usage of articles. Citation: The journal follows MLA Style. Each work cited in the text must appear in the Works Cited list, and vise-versa. However, two kinds of material are cited only in the text: references to classical works such as The Bible and The Qur’an, whose sections are standardized across editions, and references to personal communication. Authority and Responsibilities: The Editor and the publisher accept no responsibility for the opinions and statements of authors.

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL NOTE 1  BAKHTIAR SADJADI 5 TWO TALES OF A CITY: LONDON IN BEN JONSON’S THE ALCHEMIST AND SAMUEL JOHNSON’S LONDON  FARZAD BOOBANI 21 DETRIMENTAL IMPACTS OF POPPY MONOCULTURE ON INDIGENOUS SUBJECTS, PLANTS AND ANIMALS: AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF AMITAV GHOSH'S SEA OF POPPIES  FAZEL ASADI AMJAD, PEYMAN AMANOLAHI BAHARVAND 39 SEMIOTIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND PERSIAN ADVERTISING SLOGANS  MARYAM TARIGHATBIN, SEYYED SHAHABEDDIN SADATI 63 AUTOMATON AND TYCHE IN POSTMODERN BRITISH NOVEL: A CRITICAL TREATMENT OF CHANCE IN JEANETTE WINTERSON’S THE PASSION  HODA NIK-NEZHAD FERDOS, JALAL SOKHANVAR 81 THE INTERTEXTUAL AND THE THEATRICAL IN POSTMODERN DRAMA: A CASE STUDY OF STOPPARD’S ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD  NEGAR SHARIF 97 HANNAH ARENDT’S HUMAN CONDITION IN NEIL SIMON’S THEATER  NINA PEZESHK HAMEDANI, NARGES MONTAKHABI BAKHTVAR

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GLOBALIZATION, RISK, AND TRANSFORMATION OF INTIMACY: INVESTIGATING MARK 115 RAVENHILL’S SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS AND FAUST IS DEAD  ZHILA GHOLAMI, BAKHTIAR SADJADI 139 THE TRACES OF HERMETICISM IN JOHN DONNE’S AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD  FATEMEH AZIZMOHAMMADI 147 GENDER AND PERFORMATIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL: A BUTLERIAN READING OF GONE GIRL BY GILLIAN FLYNN  SADEGH AHMADI ASL, HOSSEIN ALIAKBARI HAREDASHT, EHSAN KARAMINEJAD 167 GUESTS IN ALBERT CAMUS'S “THE GUEST”: ESSENCE IN TARTARUS  ALIREZA FARAHBAKHSH 185 LITERATURE AS A MEDIUM TO FOSTER CRITICAL THINKING: A CASE STUDY OF AN IRANIAN EFL CLASSROOM  JALIL FATHI, EHSAN SOLEIMANI DAHENEHSARI 205 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FAMILY DRAMA: AN EXPLORATION OF THE IMAGE OF LOSS  MINOO ABOUZARJOMEHRI 224 PERSIAN ABSTRACTS

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