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University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Critical Literary Studies Vol. II, No. 2, Spring and Summer 2020 CLS received its license from the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance on 1397/6/5 (28 August 2018) with the license Number 79848. CLS is ranked 'B' by achieving 737.5 points out of 1000 from the Academic Journals Committee of the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, and is indexed and approved by the SRT Ministry. 2676-699X 2716-9928 Journals Office, Department of English Language and Literature, and Linguistics Faculty of Language and Literature University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Postal Code: 6617715175 Phone: 0098-87-33664600 Fax: +98 87 33660077 Email: [email protected] http://cls.uok.ac.ir/ University of Kurdistan Faculty of Language and Literature Department of English Language and Literature, and Linguistics Bakhtiar Sadjadi Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Jalal Sokhanvar Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Mostafa Hosseini Assistant Professor of English Literature, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Farzad Boobani Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran Serveh Menbari PhD Candidate of Translation Studies, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran Sajed Hosseini MA in English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran Moalem Publishing House Designer: Modern Art Institute © 2020 University of Kurdistan Éric Athenot, Professor of American Literature, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, France Albrecht Classen, Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona, United States María Luisa Carrio-Pastor, Professor of English, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Jaffer Sheikholislami, Associate Professor of Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada Nazand Begikhani, Senior Research Fellow, Bristol University, England Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Language and Literature, Tehran University, Iran Alireza Anushirvani, Professor of Comparative Literature, Shiraz University, Iran Fazel Asadi Amjad, Professor of English Language and Literature, Kharazmi University, Iran Ahmad Parsa, Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Iran Shide Ahmadzade, Associate Professor of English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Amirali Nojoumian, Associate Professor of English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Esfahan, Iran Behzad Barkat, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Guilan, Iran Alireza Farahbakhsh, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Guilan, Iran Naser Maleki, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Razi University, Iran Azra Ghandeharion, Associate Professor of English Literature, Ferdowsi University, Iran Bakhtiar Sadjadi, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Kurdistan, Iran Yadgar Karimi, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Kurdistan, Iran Ebrahim Badakhshan, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Kurdistan, Iran I Prof. María Luisa Carrio-Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Prof. Alireza Anushirvani, Shiraz University, Iran Dr. Jaffer Sheikholislami, Carleton University, Canada Dr. Behzad Barkat, University of Guilan, Iran Dr. Alireza Farahbakhsh, University of Guilan, Iran Dr. Azra Ghandeharion, Ferdowsi University, Iran Dr. Ahad Mehrvand, Tabriz University, Iran Dr. Bakhtiar Sadjadi, University of Kurdistan, Iran Dr. Shahryar Mansouri, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Dr. Farah Ghaderi, Urmia University, Iran Dr. Mostafa Hosseini, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Dr. Zakarya Bezdoode, University of Kurdistan, Iran Dr. Ali Ghaderi, Razi University, Iran Dr. Jalil Fathi, University of Kurdistan, Iran Dr. Farzad Boobani, University of Guilan, Iran Dr. Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand, University of Mazandaran, Iran Dr. Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi, University of Semnan, Iran Dr. Narges Montakhabi, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Iran Dr. Leila Baradaran Jamili, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Iran Dr. Bahman Zarrinjoei, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran Dr. Mohsen Masoomi, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Iran Dr. Seyyed Reza Ebrahimi, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Iran Dr. Peyman Amanolahi, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran Dr. Masoumeh Bakhtiari, Islamic azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran Dr. Bahareh Nilforoshan, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Iran Ms. Huriedh Maleki, University of Kurdistan, Iran Mr. Sajed Hosseini, University of Kurdistan, Iran Mr. Payam Babaie, University of Kurdistan, Iran II CLS aims to be leading academic and professional English journal of Iran in the field of English literature and contemporary literary and cultural studies. 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