Critical Literary Studies Vol. VIII, No. 1, Serial Number 15, Autumn and Winter 2025-2026
Black Mountain Poetics and Fredric Jameson’s Floating Signifier Theory Sanaz Derakhshani Karamjovan; Mohsen Hanif 1-18
Unearthing Colonial Wounds: Tracing the Impacts of Trauma on Indian Identity in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss Marzieh Izadi; Hamideh Molaei; Reza Bagheri 19-34
Tracing Nicholas Royle’s Concept of the Uncanny in the Characterization of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Melika Afzal; Hossein Mohseni 35-56
The Impact of the American War on the American Soldiers: An Examination of Survival Psychology in Scranton's War Porn and Powers’ The Yellow Birds Zainab Ibrahim Alvaan Alkaeebi; Laleh Atashi; Azra Ghandeharion 57-74
Bio-capital Decentered Subjectivity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: A Cyborgian Biotechnological Literary Analysis Najaf Ali Babazadeh; Razieh Eslamieh; Ayoub Dabiri 75-93
‘From Hitler to Hitler’: A New Paradigm of Wyndham Lewis’s Fascist Insights in Hitler (1931) and The Hitler Cult (1939) Mohsen Gholami; Morteza Lak; Hossein Moradi 95-110
The Problematic of Identity and Language in David Hare’s Skylight and Pravda Shabnam Mahdizadeh Khodayari; Jalal Sokhanvar 111-134
Politics of Desire: A Deleuzist Reading on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Azita Aryan 135-161
Hamlet Under the Digital Gaze: Surveillance, Narcissism, and the Fractured Self in Postmodern Adaptations Omid Delbandi 163-176
In-between Two Worlds: Time, Place and Language in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Selected Novels Jalil Karimi 177-194
Nietzschean “Transformations of the Soul” and “Typology of Women” in Forough Farrokhzad's Poetic Vision Chiman Fathi; Najmeddin Jabbari 195-216
The Construction of Subjectivity through Desire in Gulliver’s Travels: A Deleuzian-Žižekian Perspective Ali Shenavi; Seyed Iman Bassir 217-243
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