الفهرس 
Selected Features of Modernism
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Abstract
This thesis presents an investigation of some features of modernism in Khaled Hosseini’s writings. Hosseini is a contemporary writer who produced four prominent novels namely, The Kite Runner(2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) and, And The Mountains Echoed (2012);he published his most recent novel Sea Prayers in 2018. The two novels under study which are The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns picture events in Afghanistan. Both are representations of Hosseini’s motifs of shedding light upon his homeland with all its culture, language, history and political turmoil. To talk exhaustively about the major aspects of modernism is beyond the scope of this study. Therefore, the researcher selected some aspects of modernism that are of relevance to the novels under study. The two novels investigate common features of modernism like nostalgia, epiphany and style of writing. The protagonists in these two literary works clearly went through epiphanies and this feature is asserted by the idea that they are categorized as bildungsroman novels. Khaled Hosseini’s cultural background, as an Afghan-American writer has affected his style of writing especially in his use of language and the construction of his views in these novels. Hosseini provides a historical background of thirty years of war and instability in his homeland and an intimate look at Afghanistan‘s culture intertwined with various themes