Pyeaam Abbasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4990997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pyeaam Abbasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pyeaam |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbasi |
| SIGNATURE | ABBASI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Isfahan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4264-5873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Anti‐Aesthetic Age: How Postmodernism Unmade Beauty, Truth and the Body
Postmodernism, as a philosophical and cultural movement, is defined by its contradictions: it rejects foundational truths yet seeks definition, celebrates difference yet risks repetition and dismantles modernity while covertly relying on its frameworks. This essay examines postmodernism's inherent paradoxes through the lenses of key theorists such as Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard and Ziauddin Sardar. It explores the movement's cultural amnesia, i…
Prometheus' Cave as the Ivory Tower of Poetry: A Mytho-Archetypal Reading of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (1819) portrays a revolutionary hero who, upon being unchained, embarks on a journey that progresses eastward and backward. This article examines Shelley's depiction of specific locations, particularly Prometheus' cave, in relation to Akkerman's myths of the Garden and the Citadel, as well as biblical parables such as the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. The focus is on exploring the correlation between Promethe…
Cides and De-cidal Characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: An Interdisciplinary Approach
As a novel interdisciplinary study between literature and philosophy of ethics and aesthetics, the doctrine of cides revolves around the tendency of creating an ethical binary opposition out of the cidal and de-cidal practices. The cidal practices illuminate the decision-postponing ones within the early modern philosophy and the de-cidal practices elaborate on the decision-executing ones to overcome that dichotomous propensity aesthetically. The …
The Neoliberal Impasse: Economy in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article offers a reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in terms of economy. Drawing on insights from the New Economic Criticism, we situate this novel within a neoliberal and biopolitical context to illustrate the many ways in which the clones’ emotional and mental states interplay with a larger neoliberal economic system that ruthlessly commodifies and exploits them. We argue that the economy of affect in Ishiguro’s novel partakes of …
Monstrous Alphabet in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe consists of a large story, within which are nested the stories of how Susan “came to be marooned” and the story of “Cruso’s shipwreck and early years on the island” as well as t
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale
Ethics, Sublimity and Hospitality: Levinas and the Romantics
This article presents a study of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Coleridge and ‘Resolution and Independence’ by Wordsworth. The readings are mainly addressed by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and try to present a conception of sublimity which mainly revolves around ethical awareness and sensibility so as to gauge the extent to which they can possibly hint at ethical issues at stake. We propose that these poetic works deal with the other …
Reflecting upon Coriolanus as Being-in-and-for-Mother through the Gaze of Existential Semiotics
This study applies Tarasti’s existential semiotics, arguing that the protagonist of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (c. 1608) develops into a becoming subject through transcendental acts of negation and affirmation. First, Coriolanus discovers himself amidst Dasein’s objective signs. Coriolanus is then thrown into negation as experiencing humiliation, when his already-established ascendency to consulship is destroyed by conspiracy. His movement, however…
Liturgical Time in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Meditated, Measured and Manipulated
Liturgies are communal in nature, and in the context of the medieval Christian economy of time they are developed and utilised to quantify, consecrate, control, utilise and unify time for the comprehensive end of the welfare of the society, both in the Here and in the Here-after. The liturgy was a social institution, and functioned for anniversaries, holy days, holidays and rituals that were the means of medieval social integrity. In the economy …
Urban Decay or the Uncanny Return of Dionysus: An Analysis of the Ruins in Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’
Written in the familiar genre of ruin poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ (1818) is well-expressive of the poet’s profound hatred of tyranny. One of the distinctive features of the poem is the vividly visual images it provides of the ruined statue and the desert as the setting of the poem. Focusing on the images of the desert and ruins, and using the concept of urban decay and mytho-archetypal notions, this study attempts to show that the …
“Like Flowers or Creeping Worms”: The Poet as Phallic Symbol in Shelley’s Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
Associated with renewed begetting, the phallus is a highly relevant concept with regard to the dying and resurgent god Dionysus. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings are filled with Dionysian images that may suggest the archetypal concept of death-rebirth. Shelley’s Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1815) presents a young visionary poet who becomes a Dionysian phallic symbol at the end of the poem only to rise himself anew in a posthumous transcende…
Re-politicizing Mental Illness: Reflections on Boredom and Depression in American Post-postmodern Fiction
Figurations of psychological problems, mental illness, boredom, depression, addiction and medication abound in post-postmodern fiction. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and The Pale King and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections are cases in point. Apparently, what these works share in common are the material and psycho-biological explanations that they hint at or provide for the various mental problems and disorders experienced by the character…
Rhetoric of Display in Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion
In the Letter to Raleigh attached to the first installment of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser speaks of the “profite of the ensample,” and the fact that the best way of teaching is “seeing all th
Mystical experience in the men of the cave: A Lacanian reading of al-Kahf
In his contribution to psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan introduces three orders according to which every psychoanalytic phenomenon can be described. These three orders are the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. The imaginary is the order in which the subject thinks of everything as his/her own. For the subject there is no distinction between the other and the subject itself. In the symbolic order the subject comes to realise that there is a gap b…
The matter of Persia in The Faerie Queene: A rhetorical epideixis
Edmund Spenser’s poetry has been influenced by the tradition of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance period, so much so that, from one view, his conception of poetic art has been argued to be rhet
Coleridge’s Desire for Other Jouissance: A Lacanian Reading of Kubla Khan
This article argues that desire begins Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and moves it forward. Coleridge projects himself onto Kubla’s garden, transcends his pleasure-dome, and wishes to revive the Abyssinian maid’s song in order to build that dome in air and experience a moment of jouissance. Subjectivity is returned in the end by Coleridge’s move from pleasure to jouissance and back to Kubla’s garden to reconcile conflicting desires for Symbolic pleasure …
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Coleridge’s Desire for Other Jouissance: A Lacanian Reading of Kubla Khan
This article argues that desire begins Coleridge’s Kubla Khan and moves it forward. Coleridge projects himself onto Kubla’s garden, transcends his pleasure-dome, and wishes to revive the Abyssinian maid’s song in order to build that dome in air and experience a moment of jouissance. Subjectivity is returned in the end by Coleridge’s move from pleasure to jouissance and back to Kubla’s garden to reconcile conflicting desires for Symbolic pleasure …
The matter of Persia in The Faerie Queene: A rhetorical epideixis
Edmund Spenser’s poetry has been influenced by the tradition of classical rhetoric in the Renaissance period, so much so that, from one view, his conception of poetic art has been argued to be rhet
Mystical experience in the men of the cave: A Lacanian reading of al-Kahf
In his contribution to psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan introduces three orders according to which every psychoanalytic phenomenon can be described. These three orders are the imaginary, the symbolic and the real. The imaginary is the order in which the subject thinks of everything as his/her own. For the subject there is no distinction between the other and the subject itself. In the symbolic order the subject comes to realise that there is a gap b…
Re-politicizing Mental Illness: Reflections on Boredom and Depression in American Post-postmodern Fiction
Figurations of psychological problems, mental illness, boredom, depression, addiction and medication abound in post-postmodern fiction. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and The Pale King and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections are cases in point. Apparently, what these works share in common are the material and psycho-biological explanations that they hint at or provide for the various mental problems and disorders experienced by the character…
Rhetoric of Display in Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion
In the Letter to Raleigh attached to the first installment of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser speaks of the “profite of the ensample,” and the fact that the best way of teaching is “seeing all th
Reflecting upon Coriolanus as Being-in-and-for-Mother through the Gaze of Existential Semiotics
This study applies Tarasti’s existential semiotics, arguing that the protagonist of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (c. 1608) develops into a becoming subject through transcendental acts of negation and affirmation. First, Coriolanus discovers himself amidst Dasein’s objective signs. Coriolanus is then thrown into negation as experiencing humiliation, when his already-established ascendency to consulship is destroyed by conspiracy. His movement, however…
Liturgical Time in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Meditated, Measured and Manipulated
Liturgies are communal in nature, and in the context of the medieval Christian economy of time they are developed and utilised to quantify, consecrate, control, utilise and unify time for the comprehensive end of the welfare of the society, both in the Here and in the Here-after. The liturgy was a social institution, and functioned for anniversaries, holy days, holidays and rituals that were the means of medieval social integrity. In the economy …
Urban Decay or the Uncanny Return of Dionysus: An Analysis of the Ruins in Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’
Written in the familiar genre of ruin poems, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ (1818) is well-expressive of the poet’s profound hatred of tyranny. One of the distinctive features of the poem is the vividly visual images it provides of the ruined statue and the desert as the setting of the poem. Focusing on the images of the desert and ruins, and using the concept of urban decay and mytho-archetypal notions, this study attempts to show that the …
“Like Flowers or Creeping Worms”: The Poet as Phallic Symbol in Shelley’s Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
Associated with renewed begetting, the phallus is a highly relevant concept with regard to the dying and resurgent god Dionysus. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings are filled with Dionysian images that may suggest the archetypal concept of death-rebirth. Shelley’s Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1815) presents a young visionary poet who becomes a Dionysian phallic symbol at the end of the poem only to rise himself anew in a posthumous transcende…
Ethics, Sublimity and Hospitality: Levinas and the Romantics
This article presents a study of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Coleridge and ‘Resolution and Independence’ by Wordsworth. The readings are mainly addressed by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and try to present a conception of sublimity which mainly revolves around ethical awareness and sensibility so as to gauge the extent to which they can possibly hint at ethical issues at stake. We propose that these poetic works deal with the other …
Faces and Gazes in The Winter’s Tale
Prometheus' Cave as the Ivory Tower of Poetry: A Mytho-Archetypal Reading of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound (1819) portrays a revolutionary hero who, upon being unchained, embarks on a journey that progresses eastward and backward. This article examines Shelley's depiction of specific locations, particularly Prometheus' cave, in relation to Akkerman's myths of the Garden and the Citadel, as well as biblical parables such as the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel. The focus is on exploring the correlation between Promethe…
Cides and De-cidal Characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: An Interdisciplinary Approach
As a novel interdisciplinary study between literature and philosophy of ethics and aesthetics, the doctrine of cides revolves around the tendency of creating an ethical binary opposition out of the cidal and de-cidal practices. The cidal practices illuminate the decision-postponing ones within the early modern philosophy and the de-cidal practices elaborate on the decision-executing ones to overcome that dichotomous propensity aesthetically. The …
The Neoliberal Impasse: Economy in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
This article offers a reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go in terms of economy. Drawing on insights from the New Economic Criticism, we situate this novel within a neoliberal and biopolitical context to illustrate the many ways in which the clones’ emotional and mental states interplay with a larger neoliberal economic system that ruthlessly commodifies and exploits them. We argue that the economy of affect in Ishiguro’s novel partakes of …
Monstrous Alphabet in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
J. M. Coetzee’s Foe consists of a large story, within which are nested the stories of how Susan “came to be marooned” and the story of “Cruso’s shipwreck and early years on the island” as well as t
The Anti‐Aesthetic Age: How Postmodernism Unmade Beauty, Truth and the Body
Postmodernism, as a philosophical and cultural movement, is defined by its contradictions: it rejects foundational truths yet seeks definition, celebrates difference yet risks repetition and dismantles modernity while covertly relying on its frameworks. This essay examines postmodernism's inherent paradoxes through the lenses of key theorists such as Ihab Hassan, Jean Baudrillard and Ziauddin Sardar. It explores the movement's cultural amnesia, i…
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