Critical Literary Studies Vol. VIII, No. 2, Serial Number 16, Spring and Summer 2026
The Coexistence of Contrasting Forces: An Analysis of Selected Poetry of William Carlos Williams through Chaos Theory Mohammad Reza Esfandiari Mehr, Ali Taghizadeh 1-18
Trauma and Power: A Caruthian–Foucauldian Reading of Jelinek’s Wonderful, Wonderful Times Maryam Soltan Beyad, Mahshid Mirmasoomi 19-37
Existential Death and (In)authenticity in Beckett’s Molloy: A Yalomian Reading Samaneh Zandi, Zahra Jannessari Ladani 39-57
Abject's Time: Temporal Antagonism in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth Seyyed Mohammad Marandi, Zohreh Ramin, Maryam Moradi 59-74
Resisting and Empowering as a Result of Hybridized Identity Formation in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were Hoda Shabrang, Zhaleh Laeli 75-90
Moral-Educational Teachings and the Issue of Cognitive and Emotional Standards in Children's Poetry: The Case Study of Latif Halmat’s Children Poems Fardin Hosseinpanahi, Arash Mehraban 91-113
Decoding Alienation: Semiotics and Consumerist Modernity in Paul Auster’s City of Glass Marzieh Zibaei, Abdolreza Goudarzi, Shahram Afrougheh 115-131
The Dialectics of Enlightenment and Its Discontents Nawzad Jamal Hamafaraj 133-148
Mapping Unstable Selves: Existential Ontology and Narrative Multiplicity in As I Lay Dying Sajed Hosseini, Sheereen Ahmadpour 149-165
Hybrid Lives, Wounded Minds: An Exploration of Trauma of Dislocation in Fadia Faqir’s Diaspora Novel, The Cry of the Dove Zahra Ghasemi 167-180
Translation of Slanguage Items: The Case Study of The Catcher in the Rye Maryam Ghodrati, Shoja Neynava, Anahita Amirshojai 181-197
Translation Agents and Networks: A Case Study of the Persian Translations of Bakhtiar Ali’s Novels in Iran Milad Miraki, Ahmad Moinzadeh, Saeed Ketabi 199-232
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