{"title":"Corruption in Contemporary Nigerian Poetry: A New Historicist Perspective","authors":"Onyebuchi Nwosu, Anike Adeshina","doi":"10.1080/02564718.2021.1997164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2021.1997164","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Discussions on corruption in Nigeria are dominated by economists and social scientists with their scholastic discourse on the subject growing by the day that one wonders whether Nigerian creative writers, especially contemporary poets are not perturbed by the rising wave of corruption in the country. This article attempts to investigate the contributions of some Nigerian poets like Niyi Osundare, Odia Ofeimun, Idris Amali, Joe Ushie, Amanze Akpuda, Musa Idris Okpanachi, Darlington Ogbonnaya and Eddie Onuzuruike in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. Hence a new historicist approach was adopted to discuss their imaginative portrayal of corruption and its impact on the war against graft. Their artistic perspectives of corruption were identified in order to better understand the various forms of corruption as well as the historical dimensions and their suggestive mitigating effects. From the findings, it is evident that Nigerian poets have raised strong voices against corruptive tendencies by exposing the various categories of corruption in Nigeria and their destructive and debilitating effects.","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"14 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88529658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Afsaneh Saadati, S. Saadati, mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki
{"title":"Plant science in Mathnavi","authors":"Afsaneh Saadati, S. Saadati, mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74735576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing the Basic Needs in Weiss's Personality\u0000 (Based on William Glasser's Choice Theory)","authors":"vajihe torkamani barandozi","doi":"10.52547/jls.9.20.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52547/jls.9.20.3","url":null,"abstract":"Attention and accuracy in the spiritual and psychological dimensions of the characters of the story and the use of psychological theories has always been one of the methods of literary researchers to analyze the characters and show the power and skill of the creators of the works as accurately as possible. In this research, an attempt has been made to study the personality of Wis in the system of Wis and Ramin Fakhreddin Asad Gorgani, using the \"theory of choice\" of William Glasser, a contemporary psychologist, in a descriptive and analytical manner. According to the theory of choice, the root of all one's behaviors comes from within and to satisfy one's five needs (the need for love, survival, power, recreation, and independence). Thus, the main question of the research is that under what influence did Wis make bold choices? In other words, which of Wis's basic needs were higher than the other needs that led him to engage in such behaviors? The findings show that among all the needs, the need for survival, the need for love and intimacy, and the need for freedom are higher in him than the other needs, respectively. After these needs is the need for power and then the need for entertainment.","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83259020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}