• Official website of Farzaneh Doosti
Farzaneh Doosti
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • UNIVERSITY
  • BLOG
  • CONTACT
  • فارسی

Publications

Literary Translations

Hazeover, or Toothbrush Wrong Time

Addiction doesn’t disappear, it only changes forms. I was hooked on idleness, but now I’m hooked on work. I was hooked on weed, now I inject Ketamine. I was hooked on Azadeh, now I’m hooked on Jaleh. I was hooked on being free of family ties, but now I’m hooked Read more…

By modir, 9 months3 months ago
Literary Translations

Someone Without Peers

I have a friend who I see once in a while, and whenever we meet, we talk about our favourite books. Next time, we will take our words back. It’s always like this; we turn back and refine our opinions on books. We do so reluctantly, because ‘to refine’ implies Read more…

By modir, 1 year3 months ago
Journal Papers

Topoanalysis as Narrative Technique in John Cheever’s Architecture of Short Fiction

Abstract The backlash of recent biographies of the American “Chekhov of Suburbs” as an ill-tempered alcoholic bisexual with sharp edges of paranoia might serve to justify Cheever’s clumsy, fragmented narratives of grumpy middle class American male commuters who are about to drown in their matrimonial abyss. The present paper’s approach Read more…

By modir, 1 year3 months ago
Literary Translations

Made in Denmark

We lived in a house of closed doors. The door to the veranda was closed. The third room’s door was closed. The bifolding doors to the hall were closed–we had placed an American sofa in front of them. The door of the big bathroom was closed. The basement’s door was Read more…

By modir, 3 years3 months ago
Subscribe

BROWSE CATEGORIES
  • Publications (4)
    • Journal Papers (1)
    • Literary Translations (3)
  • Teaching (2)
    • Study Guides (2)
Tags
Asymptote Journal (1) mini-essay (1)
RECENT POSTS
  • Recommended Sources for University Entrance Exams
  • Hazeover, or Toothbrush Wrong Time
  • Someone Without Peers
  • Topoanalysis as Narrative Technique in John Cheever’s Architecture of Short Fiction
  • How to Compose Mini-Essays
Postgrad Courses (MA)
  • An Introduction to Short Fiction
Undergrad Courses (BA)
  • Reading Media Texts
  • Basics of Research and Methodology
  • A Survey of English Literature (1)
PERSIAN | فارسی

  • Instagram
  • Email
  • (c) Farzaneh Doosti