Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 6 1 2025 03 01 Reading Mind in Spatial Notions through Fiction in Colours and Furniture of Susan Schaeffer’s Falling and Anya. 1 7 227693 10.26655/JELCS.2025.06.01 EN Sreedevi S Department of English, Bharathiar University P.G Extension and Research Centre, Erode 0009-0003-5265-2107 S. Suganya Department of English, Bharathiar University P.G Extension and Research Centre, Erode Journal Article 2024 05 22 Spatial theories focus on the physical contents of images and art in any human mind, each description of self is an estimated encouragement of the social self that happened in evolution. The same is influenced by the culture and family set up in the initial stages of life until a person receives world knowledge. The knowledge gained then plays a more prevalent role than in the past self, yet the group consciousness stays the same. The study extends mental health studies, especially when the group’s authenticities are generated toward individual knowledge. It is evidenced through the depiction of colours, specifically with the interior and historic sensibility through furniture. In the selected writings of Susan Schaeffer, the work Falling speaks of colours to express relationships, success, failures, history, ethnicity, the boredom of life, and the crisis of living. In Anya, it speaks of the long family lineage one holds with the crisis of individual life and becoming a newer self. Schaffer in both texts represent the characters in crisis by asking personal questions about the historical evolution of the Jewish community. To emphasize the post-war crisis and especially the change of relationship in the social view is visible by attempting to add certain colours and furniture to represent lineage and past that withhold the individuals. The two main characters connected to this element are Elizabeth from Falling and Anya from Anya https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_227693_dca4866439b3b51880dcfb3dd0f82dd4.pdf

Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 6 1 2025 03 01 Enola Holmes: An Analysis of Cinematic Adaptation Through the Lens of Auteur Theory 8 15 247302 10.26655/JELCS.2025.06.02 EN Vanshika NIL Vivekananda institute of professional studies Journal Article 2024 06 17 Some mysteries are meant to be solved, while others are meant to be rewritten. <br>The Enola Holmes films, directed by Harry Bradbeer, are not just adaptations of Nancy Springer’s novels—they are reinventions, shaped by a distinct directorial vision. This essay analyzes the film adaptation of Enola Holmes by director Harry Bradbeer in the context of Auteur theory. According to Auteur theory, the director is the "creator" of a film, imprinting it with his artistic vision. This research analyzes how Bradbeer, as an auteur, recasts the source material, inserting his distinctive flourishes: light-hearted fourth-wall breaks, contemporary feminist undertones, and a more acute emphasis on social justice. Drawn from Nancy Springer's novel series, the film reimagines the exploits of Sherlock Holmes' younger sister in a unique directorial vision. Auteur theory, which foregrounds the director's creative control, provides the basis for understanding Bradbeer's stylistic and narrative decisions. By contrasting the thematic and narrative turns of the novels with their screen adaptations, this paper explores the ways in which the director's decisions enhance Enola's autonomy, subvert conventional gender norms, and introduce new narratives—especially in Enola Holmes 2, where the film breaks from the book to highlight real-world labor rights movements. This research, from an Auteur Theory perspective, unravels the directorial signatures that Bradbeer impresses upon such adaptations to determine how one director's personal creative control over an adaptation will completely transform the story's own identity. https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_247302_f3c683b2e118ddb9e2cf0846fa88eefc.pdf

Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 6 1 2025 03 01 Gender Performativity in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh: A Comparative Feminist Analysis 16 31 227699 10.26655/JELCS.2025.06.03 EN Paniz Aghagholizadeh Department of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran 0009-0008-9843-6756 Journal Article 2024 08 01 This analysis explores gender performativity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590-1596) and Abolqasem Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (c. 1010), two major epic poems distinguished by temporal, cultural, and geographical differences, yet interconnected through their intricate representations of gender. This paper conducts a comparative feminist analysis utilizing Judith Butler's theory of gender performativity to examine how these epics establish, enforce, and occasionally disrupt gender norms within their cultural contexts. Analysis demonstrates both texts operate within patriarchal systems but have significant examples of gender fluidity and rebellion against standard interpretations. A comparison of Western and Persian literary traditions is made to explain the mechanics of performances of gender in both works through deliberate cross-dressing, martial power as a form of gender transgression, as well as the provisional support of feminine sovereignty. The findings illustrate that both works, despite their ostensible differences, utilize analogous confinement tactics to address gender subversion while unintentionally revealing the manufactured essence of gender. This cross-cultural feminist perspective challenges Western feminist frameworks and offers fresh insights into the performative aspects of gender within various literary and cultural contexts. https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_227699_c79e7a57562b073637e6c8957dc16c36.pdf

Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 6 1 2025 03 01 Reconsidering Titus Andronicus through Slavoj Žižek's Theory of Violence 32 44 247303 10.26655/JELCS.2025.06.04 EN Yalda Mansouri Iran Journal Article 2024 08 12 Abstract: Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is often criticized for its spectacle of physical brutality, yet this very focus on subjective violence can obscure the deeper, more insidious forms of coercion that structure the play’s world. This study mobilizes Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite model of violence from Violence: Six Sideways Reflections—subjective, systemic, and symbolic—to argue that the true horror of the play lies not in its bloodshed, but in the invisible ideological machinery of Rome. Moving beyond prior scholarship, which has vividly catalogued the play's graphic acts, this paper demonstrates how systemic violence (embedded in law and political institutions) and symbolic violence (inherent in language and ritual) operate to produce the conditions for the play's notorious atrocities. Ultimately, a Žižekian reading reveals that the collapse of the Roman order is not a descent into chaos, but the logical culmination of the objective violence upon which its civilization was founded.<br>Keywords: Subjective Violence, Systemic Violence, Symbolic Violence, Ideology, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Slavoj Žižek https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_247303_69b28125fcff901f0ceb149714ab71d3.pdf

Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889) Online ISSN: 2667-6214 Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 2667-6214 6 1 2025 03 01 A Comparative Study of the Performance of Human and Machine translation in Conveying the Message in “The Remains of the Days” 45 53 247471 10.26655/JELCS.2025.06.05 EN Mohammad Reza Falahati Qadimi Fumani Faculty Member of the Department of Computational Linguistics, Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC), Shiraz, Iran 0000-0001-7885-7336 Shiva Sadighi Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Zand Institute of Higher Education, Shiraz, Iran Hamidreza Mahboudi Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Zand Institute of Higher Education, Shiraz, Iran Seyed Mohammad Hosseininezhad M.A. in Translation Studies, Zand Institute of Higher Education, shiraz, Iran Journal Article 2024 12 26 Comparison of human and machine translation – especially in terms of the preservation of contextual meaning – has already attracted the attention of many researchers. Accordingly, the present study intended to compare human (Daryabandari) and machine (Google Translate) translations of The Remains of the Day into Persian to describe translation error types in conveying contextual meaning. In all, 120 errors were extracted using MQM model from each translation. The study identified four main categories of errors: lexical (35%), semantic (30%), syntactic (23%), and pragmatic (12%). These findings highlighted the limitations of current MT systems in handling the nuances of language, cultural references, and literary style present in sophisticated narratives. The presence of syntactic errors (23%) further demonstrated the difficulty machines face in correctly interpreting and reconstructing grammatical structures across languages. Pragmatic errors, while less frequent (12%), underscored the machine’s inability to grasp and appropriately translate cultural nuances and context-dependent meanings. Further, the Chi-square test result (χ² = 81.4, df= 3, P= .000) revealed a statistically significant difference between the translation type and error categories. This implied that human and machine translations exhibited different error patterns. The findings of this study suggested that translators and translation students should incorporate both traditional human translation techniques and machine translation technologies into their curricula. https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_247471_ba74adc9bbacf90577faec2900c6c144.pdf