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The past is an ever-flowing and never-dying river in human consciousness. Any single piece of our memories is a constituent part of this river. By our remembering acts, we continuously and intermittently become connected to our stream of consciousness. Therefore, remembering is an integrated part of our mind. Similarly, it is a salient property of fictional minds, too. The past is a defining element for the characters¿ sense of identity in nar...

In this study of three of Barbara Pym's novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan, drawing on examinations of women's humour by Eileen Gillooly, Regina Barreca, and others, shows how the humorous female discourse in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence undermines patriarchal culture and subverts both female and male stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. Varghaiyan reveals how the rhetoric of women's humour ena...

The Irish writer Samuel Beckett's and the Iranian writer Gholam Hossein Sa'edi's pantomimes share some common features. The theory of intertextuality proves to be a helpful approach to analyse their shared characteristics. Both pantomime as a literary genre and intertextuality as a literary approach have universal purposes. The former is the study of any relationship between and among different texts from different historical periods, cultures...