Fazel Asadi Amjad
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fazel Asadi Amjad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fazel Asadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Amjad |
| SIGNATURE | AMJAD F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kharazmi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3600-1008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Power Interplay and Political Possibilities
This study examines the postwar imagination and psychological landscape in David Hare's Plenty, focusing on power dynamics and political alternatives. Utilizing Organski’s power transition theory, the paper analyzes the legacy of World War II on individual identity and power relations. Through a single-case cultural study of the protagonist, Susan Traherne, the research highlights the dissonance between wartime idealism and postwar disillusionmen…
A Metamodernist Reading of Don DeLillo’s Zero K
This article offers a critical analysis of Don DeLillo’s 2016 novel, Zero K, through the lens of a metamodernist framework. While DeLillo’s work is often associated with either modernism or, predominantly, postmodernism, this study argues that in Zero K, he can be categorized as a metamodernist writer. Metamodernism, a term introduced and proposed by cultural theorists Vermeulen and Akker, is conceptualized as a mediation between modernism and po…
Empathy amid Fear
The aim of this article is to trace affect in Meg Cabot’s novel, Abandon. Affective analysis is a sect of the semiotic side of language which contributes to discovering the deeper and hidden layers of language. Julia Kristeva is a major figure in this regard, utilizing semiotics in the critical analysis of literary texts. She has specifically focused on how the sole responsibility of our unconscious fears and affects and their effects on others l…
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen
Iranian cinema is an artistic forum in which cultural values and national sentiments are discursively performed, rehearsed, and negotiated. It plays a pivotal role in propagating and consolidating various vestiges of national identity. The interplay between cinema and national identity finds its apotheosis in the directorial oeuvre of Dariush Mehrjui, which is characterised by a vested interest in cross-cultural appropriation of canonical literar…
Ideological Anxieties and Defense Mechanisms in the Tragic Works of Shakespeare and Ferdowsi
At the time of subversion and containment, the power structure applies various strategies for its survival. It manages ideological anxieties and employs defense mechanisms to contain dissident forces. Tragic works have the potential to display tensions in the power structure, its ideological anxieties of subversive forces and appliance of various strategies to survive. By comparing classical tragic works, it is possible to reach a comparative sch…
Suhrawardi’s Ishraq in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalism
Among all the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) looked forward to a more glorious state in America than history had yet recorded at a turning point in the foundation of his nation’s literature. The belief in human progress culminating in a religion of humanity is the reason that Transcendentalism came into understanding Asian religions and doctrines to which Ishraq (Philosophy of Illumination) belongs. By exp…
The Redemption of the Theological Ideal in the Baroque
The baroque is a term that its meaning, apart from its etymology, is not by any means clear. There are a lot of inconsistencies in the descriptions which have been given of the characteristics of baroque art. One of such disagreements is regarding the kind of mentality that it supposedly represents. Whereas a lot of critics—if not the majority of them—seem to believe that baroque art represents the kind of mind that was overwhelmed by existential…
Rumi’s Ontology
The present article aims to explore Rumi’s ontological approach to Being and World which is deeply impressed by mystical doctrines and practices of Islamic Sufism and the writings of his contemporary Islamic philosopher Ibn 'Arabi. Rumi finds all the components of creation as a manifestation of the unique manifestations of God, in which God has manifested as much as the talents of the creators. In Rumi's view, existence is a mirror in which God i…
Reclaming Identity through Communal Voice
This study provides a postcolonial narratological analysis of The Kindness of Enemies to explore different layers of identity formation for Muslim immigrants. The novel chronicles the dilemmas Natasha, a Muslim professor of history that teaches at a Scottish university and studies Imam Shamil’s jihad, experiences in maintaining an independent sense of identity far from a Westernized mindset. A stylistic axis whereby the author mirrors this comple…
The Struggle between the Dharma Bums and the Police
This study aimed to examine and analyze the novel The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac based on the political theory of Michel Foucault. This semi-fictional account is the story of search for the original experience and enlightenment and introduces the character of Gary Snyder as Japhy Ryder who is a poet, critical thinker, philosopher and political radical, and Ray Smith, the alter ego of Jack Kerouac himself. The main focus would be on Foucault’s co…
Mirrors and Lamps
This study aims to provide a novel understanding of W. B. Yeats’s systematic view of reality and human experience, generally referred to as his Vision. De Man’s deconstructive reading of Yeats has demonstrated that this vision operates according to a particular mode of logic that differs radically from the standard economy of binary oppositions. Building on de Man’s findings, and with reference to Shelley’s poem “Witch of Atlas,” this paper attem…
An American Mystic in the East
The American poet Robert Bly is among the most important literary figures in the second half of the 20th century. He worked in various capacities as a poet, translator, teacher and workshop organizer among other things, so much so that he is sometimes compared to Ezra Pound on account of the variety of his interests and the extent of his influence. Like Pound, Bly developed an interest in Asian poetic traditions, including that of Iran, and in do…
Indigenising American Spirituality
Despite the emergence of insightful scholarship in Iranian cinema in the twenty-first century, there is a paucity of critical studies on the crossroad between cinema and national identity, particularly how the latter is constructed, (re)inscribed, and refashioned through the structures of feeling the former concocts. A particular case in point is the directorial oeuvre of Dariush Mehrjui, an auteur whose feature films play a vital role in nurturi…
Representing the Zeitgeist
This study is an attempt at reading Jack Kerouac’s “The Subterraneans” in the light of the theory of Michel Foucault. “The Subterraneans”, written in 1958, grapples with the life of Leo, the alter ego of Jack Kerouac himself. The actions and interactions of its main characters, Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, are observed and analyzed, focusing on the political philosophy of Foucault, specifically his conceptions of power, power relations, institut…
Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has taken Saussure’s term “signifying” and redefined it as a linguistic wordplay which postpones the delivery of meaning and believes in “double-voicedness”, this means to speak both the language of the dominant culture and that of the subordinated one. He also asserts “double-voicedness” as the epitome of “Signifyin (g)”. This paper intends to apply the notions of “Double-voicedness” and “Signifyin (g)” on the manuscript of Les…
A case of historical adaptation in Iranian media
A comprehensive command of national (Persian) and Western (mainly English/American) literary traditions and a deep knowledge of historical events form the backbone of the cinematographic oeuvre of Hassan Fathi, an Iranian director noted for his “historian-adaptor” approach toward filmmaking. This being the case, in his Shahrzad series (2015–2018), the director details the August 1953 coup d’état in Iran as an intertextual scenario in which a méla…
Repository of Carnivalism in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
This study is attempt to examine Bakhtin's Carnivalism as international theory in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. The proposed goal in the study concerns with Bakhtin's Carnivalism as the rhizomatic, discriminative, international theory. The major concern of this argument is to historically and internationally goes beneath the surface level of Carnivalism, in order to lay bare the multiple labyrinth of this theory due to historical facts. It supp…
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Repository of Carnivalism in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
This study is attempt to examine Bakhtin's Carnivalism as international theory in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. The proposed goal in the study concerns with Bakhtin's Carnivalism as the rhizomatic, discriminative, international theory. The major concern of this argument is to historically and internationally goes beneath the surface level of Carnivalism, in order to lay bare the multiple labyrinth of this theory due to historical facts. It supp…
A case of historical adaptation in Iranian media
A comprehensive command of national (Persian) and Western (mainly English/American) literary traditions and a deep knowledge of historical events form the backbone of the cinematographic oeuvre of Hassan Fathi, an Iranian director noted for his “historian-adaptor” approach toward filmmaking. This being the case, in his Shahrzad series (2015–2018), the director details the August 1953 coup d’état in Iran as an intertextual scenario in which a méla…
Post Colonialist Features of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs From the Viewpoint of Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates has taken Saussure’s term “signifying” and redefined it as a linguistic wordplay which postpones the delivery of meaning and believes in “double-voicedness”, this means to speak both the language of the dominant culture and that of the subordinated one. He also asserts “double-voicedness” as the epitome of “Signifyin (g)”. This paper intends to apply the notions of “Double-voicedness” and “Signifyin (g)” on the manuscript of Les…
Representing the Zeitgeist
This study is an attempt at reading Jack Kerouac’s “The Subterraneans” in the light of the theory of Michel Foucault. “The Subterraneans”, written in 1958, grapples with the life of Leo, the alter ego of Jack Kerouac himself. The actions and interactions of its main characters, Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox, are observed and analyzed, focusing on the political philosophy of Foucault, specifically his conceptions of power, power relations, institut…
An American Mystic in the East
The American poet Robert Bly is among the most important literary figures in the second half of the 20th century. He worked in various capacities as a poet, translator, teacher and workshop organizer among other things, so much so that he is sometimes compared to Ezra Pound on account of the variety of his interests and the extent of his influence. Like Pound, Bly developed an interest in Asian poetic traditions, including that of Iran, and in do…
Indigenising American Spirituality
Despite the emergence of insightful scholarship in Iranian cinema in the twenty-first century, there is a paucity of critical studies on the crossroad between cinema and national identity, particularly how the latter is constructed, (re)inscribed, and refashioned through the structures of feeling the former concocts. A particular case in point is the directorial oeuvre of Dariush Mehrjui, an auteur whose feature films play a vital role in nurturi…
Rumi’s Ontology
The present article aims to explore Rumi’s ontological approach to Being and World which is deeply impressed by mystical doctrines and practices of Islamic Sufism and the writings of his contemporary Islamic philosopher Ibn 'Arabi. Rumi finds all the components of creation as a manifestation of the unique manifestations of God, in which God has manifested as much as the talents of the creators. In Rumi's view, existence is a mirror in which God i…
Reclaming Identity through Communal Voice
This study provides a postcolonial narratological analysis of The Kindness of Enemies to explore different layers of identity formation for Muslim immigrants. The novel chronicles the dilemmas Natasha, a Muslim professor of history that teaches at a Scottish university and studies Imam Shamil’s jihad, experiences in maintaining an independent sense of identity far from a Westernized mindset. A stylistic axis whereby the author mirrors this comple…
The Struggle between the Dharma Bums and the Police
This study aimed to examine and analyze the novel The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac based on the political theory of Michel Foucault. This semi-fictional account is the story of search for the original experience and enlightenment and introduces the character of Gary Snyder as Japhy Ryder who is a poet, critical thinker, philosopher and political radical, and Ray Smith, the alter ego of Jack Kerouac himself. The main focus would be on Foucault’s co…
Mirrors and Lamps
This study aims to provide a novel understanding of W. B. Yeats’s systematic view of reality and human experience, generally referred to as his Vision. De Man’s deconstructive reading of Yeats has demonstrated that this vision operates according to a particular mode of logic that differs radically from the standard economy of binary oppositions. Building on de Man’s findings, and with reference to Shelley’s poem “Witch of Atlas,” this paper attem…
Ideological Anxieties and Defense Mechanisms in the Tragic Works of Shakespeare and Ferdowsi
At the time of subversion and containment, the power structure applies various strategies for its survival. It manages ideological anxieties and employs defense mechanisms to contain dissident forces. Tragic works have the potential to display tensions in the power structure, its ideological anxieties of subversive forces and appliance of various strategies to survive. By comparing classical tragic works, it is possible to reach a comparative sch…
Suhrawardi’s Ishraq in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalism
Among all the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) looked forward to a more glorious state in America than history had yet recorded at a turning point in the foundation of his nation’s literature. The belief in human progress culminating in a religion of humanity is the reason that Transcendentalism came into understanding Asian religions and doctrines to which Ishraq (Philosophy of Illumination) belongs. By exp…
The Redemption of the Theological Ideal in the Baroque
The baroque is a term that its meaning, apart from its etymology, is not by any means clear. There are a lot of inconsistencies in the descriptions which have been given of the characteristics of baroque art. One of such disagreements is regarding the kind of mentality that it supposedly represents. Whereas a lot of critics—if not the majority of them—seem to believe that baroque art represents the kind of mind that was overwhelmed by existential…
Empathy amid Fear
The aim of this article is to trace affect in Meg Cabot’s novel, Abandon. Affective analysis is a sect of the semiotic side of language which contributes to discovering the deeper and hidden layers of language. Julia Kristeva is a major figure in this regard, utilizing semiotics in the critical analysis of literary texts. She has specifically focused on how the sole responsibility of our unconscious fears and affects and their effects on others l…
Performing the poetics of the Iranian dream on silver screen
Iranian cinema is an artistic forum in which cultural values and national sentiments are discursively performed, rehearsed, and negotiated. It plays a pivotal role in propagating and consolidating various vestiges of national identity. The interplay between cinema and national identity finds its apotheosis in the directorial oeuvre of Dariush Mehrjui, which is characterised by a vested interest in cross-cultural appropriation of canonical literar…
Power Interplay and Political Possibilities
This study examines the postwar imagination and psychological landscape in David Hare's Plenty, focusing on power dynamics and political alternatives. Utilizing Organski’s power transition theory, the paper analyzes the legacy of World War II on individual identity and power relations. Through a single-case cultural study of the protagonist, Susan Traherne, the research highlights the dissonance between wartime idealism and postwar disillusionmen…
A Metamodernist Reading of Don DeLillo’s Zero K
This article offers a critical analysis of Don DeLillo’s 2016 novel, Zero K, through the lens of a metamodernist framework. While DeLillo’s work is often associated with either modernism or, predominantly, postmodernism, this study argues that in Zero K, he can be categorized as a metamodernist writer. Metamodernism, a term introduced and proposed by cultural theorists Vermeulen and Akker, is conceptualized as a mediation between modernism and po…
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