JWL: From Persian to World Literature

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

From Lisbon to the World...

How the pre-islamic persian literature passed to the arabs

Text World Theory and real world readers: From literature to life in a Belfast prison

Cognitive stylistics offers a range of frameworks for understanding (amongst other things) what producers of literary texts 'do' with language and how they 'do' it. Less prevalent, however, is an understanding of the ways in which these same frameworks offer insights into what readers 'do' (and how they 'do' it). Text World Theory (Werth, 1999; Gavins, 2007; Whiteley, 2011) has proved useful fo...

the world of imagination; art and literature from sartre’s view

what is imagination and image? how is a mental picture formed? how does the product of imagination appear as an artistic or literary from? what are the factors that cause man to prefer the world of imagination over reality, making it, his/her choice and becoming an artist or a writer? these were the questions that made jean-paul sartre busy between 1920 to 1940, and after that he was thinking a...