Words & Worlds

A Portrait of Plato

On Plato

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Plato stands as one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy, whose ideas have traversed millennia to shape the intellectual landscape of the modern world. As the founder of...

On Plato

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Plato stands as one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy, whose ideas have traversed millennia to shape the intellectual landscape of the modern world. As the founder of...

a young British seaman who seeks redemption in the dark and gloomy jungles of Southeast Asia in the 19th century.

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim has centered on Jim, a young British seaman haunted by an act of cowardice, the novel delves into guilt, redemption, and the quest for personal integrity...

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim has centered on Jim, a young British seaman haunted by an act of cowardice, the novel delves into guilt, redemption, and the quest for personal integrity...

A girl attempting to climb on a tree's branches while some boys and a dog standing down the tree and looking at the girl.

William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

William Faulkner stands among the most towering literary figures of the twentieth century, a Nobel laureate whose novels, stories, and plays forever transformed the contours of American literature. With a...

William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

William Faulkner stands among the most towering literary figures of the twentieth century, a Nobel laureate whose novels, stories, and plays forever transformed the contours of American literature. With a...

Cartoon design of two waiting men in a desert plus two puppets talking together and a boy looking at them.

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Beckett’s reputation as a dramatist was cemented with the premiere of En attendant Godot Waiting for Godot in Paris in 1953. The play’s effect on audiences and critics was seismic—never...

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Beckett’s reputation as a dramatist was cemented with the premiere of En attendant Godot Waiting for Godot in Paris in 1953. The play’s effect on audiences and critics was seismic—never...

A gray sketch of a male writer who is writing while being supervised by a pair of himself.

Literary Postmodernism and English Postmodern F...

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

In literature, post-modernism challenges established modes of storytelling, authorship, meaning, and reality itself, inviting readers into worlds where ambiguity reigns and boundaries blur. American and British postmodern fiction, while sharing...

Literary Postmodernism and English Postmodern F...

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

In literature, post-modernism challenges established modes of storytelling, authorship, meaning, and reality itself, inviting readers into worlds where ambiguity reigns and boundaries blur. American and British postmodern fiction, while sharing...

A gray sketch of an English gentleman in the early 19 century formal dress looking at a Gothic manor at heights.

Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Emily Brontë stands as one of the most enigmatic and distinctive figures in nineteenth-century English literature. Remembered primarily for her singular masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, her literary life, though brief, burned...

Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights

Amir Hossein Yasini Visti

Emily Brontë stands as one of the most enigmatic and distinctive figures in nineteenth-century English literature. Remembered primarily for her singular masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, her literary life, though brief, burned...