3. Applied Literature
“The Salmon’s Spring Out of the Water”: A Deleuzean Reading of Freedom in Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn

Mohammad Ghaffary; Melika Ramzi

Volume 10, Issue 2 , October 2022, , Pages 227-244

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2022.27907.1440

Abstract
  The issue of “freedom” has been one of the core concepts in the history of literature and philosophy since classical times. This concept considerably contributes to the ongoing discussions of Iris Murdoch’s The Unicorn (first published in 1963). Unlike most of the previous studies of ...  Read More

3. Applied Literature
Ethical Conversation with the Other in Conrad Aiken’s “Silent Snow, Secret Snow”: A Levinasian Reading

Mohammadreza Touzideh; Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand

Volume 10, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 155-167

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2022.27397.1347

Abstract
  The ethical relation with the Other becomes of great significance in the postmodern ethos which considers the decentralization of subjectivity as one of its main philosophical and literary objectives. Emmanuel Levinas was one of the first philosophers who redefined the notion of ethics as a critical ...  Read More