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Volumes 10 & 11. Summer and Fall 2010
Concessionaire Department of English Language and Literature
Managing Director Amir Ali Nojoumian, PhD
Editor in Chief Maryam Rahimi (Post Grad. Student, English Lit.)

Editorial Board
Translation Farnaz Safdari (Post Grad. Student, Trans. Studies)
ELT Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim (Post Grad. Student, TEFL)
Literature Shataw Naseri (Post Grad. Student, English Lit.)
With Special Thanks to Narges Montakhabi (PhD Student, English Lit.)
Cover and Layout Design Ali Noorani
Contributors
• Shataw Naseri • Mohamad Gaffari • Robabeh Jalayer • Farnaz Safdari
Gholamreza Medadian • Mehdi Mirzaei • Narges Montakhabi • Maryam Rahimi
Maryam Rafiee • Banafsheh Rafe • Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim • Ali Noorani
Maryam Pezeshki & Ali Heidari • Golnoosh Nourpanah • Shadi Ghazi Moradi
Shirin Sadaghian • Mersedeh Nasiri • Shadi Ghazi Moradi • Yasna Golyari
Nahid Jamshidi Rad • Parisa Mostafavi •
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K. Soheil, PhD, Shahid Beheshti University
S. C. Ilkhani, PhD, Shahid Beheshti University
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EDITORIAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Literary studies
Profile: Luisa Valenzuela / Shataw Naseri .8.
Hybridity and Nationhood: A Postcolonial Reading of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations /
Mohammad Ghaffary .12.
A Thematic Study of Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / Robabeh Jalayer .23.
To Define or Not to Define Poetry, This Is the Question / Shataw Naseri .30.
Translation Studies
Profile: Katharina Reiss / Farnaz Safdari .36.
Postmodern Translation: Translation as Text or Taste? / Mehdi Mirzaei .39.
The Role of Context of Situation in Translation / Farnaz Safdari .48.
English Language Teaching
Profile: Simon Borg / Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim .58.
The Effect of Instruction on EFL Students’ Production of the Speech Act of Complaint /
Maryam Pezeshki & Ali Heidari .60.
A Study of Peripheral Learning in English Language Classroom: The Effective Factors and the
Resultant Acquisition / Shirin Sadaghian .72.
The Effect of Teaching Vocabulary through Word-Formation Strategy on Vocabulary Learning
of Iranian EFL Learners / Mersedeh Nasiri .81.
Interview
Mr. Alireza Khalighi: A Brief Discussion of Letter Writing Styles and Translation Courses /
Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim .100.
Army of Letters
A Tale from Bostan Sa’adi .104.
Nocturnal IX by Ahmad Shamloo / Mohammad Ghaffary .105.
Method Disturbed / Golnoosh Nourpanah .108.
Under the Sun / Golnoosh Nourpanah .109.
Apple and Moon/ Nahid Jamshidi Rad .110.
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Smiled, the Mad / Nahid Jamshidi Rad .111.
Nocturnal by Ahmad Shamloo / Ali Noorani .112
The Wolf / Mehrdad Yousefpoori Naeim .113.
If I Want to Draw a Picture of You! / Yasna Golyari .114.
Shoes / Shadi Ghazi Moradi .115.
Translation Challenge
Profile: Yadollah Royayi .118.
The Rainy Day / Banafsheh Rafe .120.
Shall-not-be Day / Nahid Jamshidi Rad .121
Rainy Day / Farnaz Safdari .122.
A Rainy Day / Maryam Rafiee .123.
Next Issue Translation Challenge / Salman Harati .124.
Views & Reviews
A Film: The White Ribbon / Narges Montakhabi .126.
A Play: The Night That Rachel Left Home / Maryam Rahimi .130.
A Poem: To Autumn / Parisa Mostafavi .132.
A Novel: Reading Turgenev / Nahid Jamshidi Rad .142.
ThreShelf
Practice Reading: A Foundation English Course for University Students (September 2010).148.
Grammar as Science (January 2010) .149.
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism (What Is Theatre?) (June 2010) .149.
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method (August 2010) .150.
Image/Text Semiotics: A Hypertextual Reading of Shakespeare’s and Titian’s “Venus and
Adonis” (September 2010) .150.
Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications (2010) .151.
An English Translation of Selected Tales of the Shahnameh .152.
Abstracts .153.
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Literary
Studies
Literary Studies

Profile:
LUISA VALENZUELA
By Shataw Naseri
BIOGRAPHY
Luisa Valenzuela was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 26, 1938, to Pablo Fran-
ciso Valenzuela, a physician, and to writer Luisa Mercedes Levinson. At her mother’s house
various writers gathered such as Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto Sabato.
Though she felt an interest in natural sciences from an early age, at 17 she began publishing in
several newspapers, such as Atlántida, El Hogar and Esto Es, and worked for Radio Belgrano, as
well. At 20, just barely married to Theodore Marjak, a French merchant marine, she moved to
Paris where she worked for Radio Télévision Française, and met members of both the nouveau
roman literary movement and Tel Quel. She published her first fiction work entitled Clara (Hay que
sonreír), whose main character would give its name to the title of the book of both English and
French translations. In 1958, Luisa Valenzuela gave birth to her daughter Anna-Luisa. In 1961 she
moved back to Argentina, where she worked as a journalist for La Nación and Crisis magazine. In
1965 she got divorced. During 1967 and 1968 she traveled throughout Bolivia, Peru and Brazil
working for La Nación.
In 1969 she obtained the Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Iowa
where she wrote The Efficient Cat (El gato eficaz). Between 1972 and 1974 she lived in Mex-
ico City, Paris and Barcelona, with a brief stay in New York, where she researched the ex-
pression of the marginal United States literature as a recipient of the scholarship awarded
by Argentina’s National Fund for the Arts (Fondo Nacional de las Artes). As a consequence
of the National Reorganization Process, that partially censored her novel He Who Searches
(Como en la guerra) by removing a torture scene, she moved to the United States where she
lived for ten years. There she published in 1982 her short fiction book Change of Guard
(Cambio de armas) and in 1983 The Lizard’s Tail (Cola de lagartija), a novel about José López
Rega, Minister of Social Welfare during María Estela Martínez’s presidency that was sup-
posed to be originally titled as Red Ant Sorcerer, Lord of Tacurú and Her Sister Estrella (El
Brujo Hormiga Roja, Señor del Tacurú y su Hermana Estrella).
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Luis Valenzuela was a Resident Writer at the Center for Interamerican Relations at
New York and Columbia University, where she taught writing workshops and seminars
for ten years. She was a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities, at the
Fund for Free Expression and member of the Freedom to Write Committee of the PEN
American Center. In 1983 she was awarded the Guggenheim Scholarship. In 1989 she
returned to Buenos Aires, where she finished her fiction works National Reality from Bed
(Realidad nacional desde la cama), conceived initially as a play but finished as a novel and Black
novel with Argentines (Novela negra con argentinos) that originally was meant to bear the title of
The Motive (El motivo).
Recognized as a significant author who has emerged in Argentina since the “boom”
in Latin American literature during the 1960s, Valenzuela is one of South America’s best
known and most widely translated women writers. She has written six novels and six col-
lections of short stories, as well as numerous journalistic essays and a one-act play, each
distinguished by a decidedly feminist slant in contrast with the male-dominated world of
Hispanic literature. Throughout her writings Valenzuela has focused on contemporary
politics, especially those of her native Argentina, and the use, misuse, and abuse of lan-
guage in order to oppress, control, and censor thought—particularly of women—at both
the personal and political level. Critics often have commented on the fantastic, magical el-
ements of her generally realistic fiction, frequently classifying her narrative style as magic
realism, a technique used by many writers to reflect the extraordinary qualities of life in
Latin America. Although Valenzuela’s later works have strayed from personal themes and
linear narration toward an emphasis on political concerns and a lyrical, metaphorical style,
Cheryl Nimtz has observed that the personal and the political often reflect each other in
Valenzuela’s work
AWARDS
• 1965 Kraft Award
• 1966 Premio del Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía
• 1969 Fulbright Scholarship (International Writing Program, Univer-
sity of Iowa)
• 1972 Scholarship of Argentine “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” for
investigations in New York City
• 1981/82 Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities of New York Uni-
versity
• 1983 Guggenheim-Scholarship
• 1985 Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University
• Honorary Doctor of University of Knox, Illinois
• 1997 Medal “Machado de Assis” of Academia Brasilera de Letras
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• 2004 Premio Astralba (University of Puerto Rico)
WORKS
Novels:
Spanish
• Hay que sonreír, 1966
• El gato eficaz, 1991
• Como en la guerra, 1997
• Cola de lagartija. Buenos Aires, 1993
• Realidad nacional desde la cama, 1993
• Novela negra con argentinos, 1990
• La Travesía, 2001
English
• Clara (the novel), 1999
• The Lizard’s Tail (a novel),1983
• He Who Searches (a novel), 1986
• Black Novel (with Argentines, 1992
• Bedside Manners,1995
Short Stories:
Spanish
• Los heréticos, 1967
• Libro que no muerde, 1980
• Cambio de armas, 1982
• Donde viven las águilas, 1983
• SimetríasAntología personal, 1993
• Cuentos completos y uno más, `1999
• Simetrías/Cambio de Armas, 2002
• El placer rebelde. Antología general, 2003
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