Literary and Critical Terms / Osama Mahmoud Al-Buhairy

Representation from Critical Terms for Literary Study

Probably the most common and naive intuition about literature is that it is a “representation of life.” Unlike many of the terms in this collection, “representation” has always played a central role in the understanding of literature. Indeed, one might say that it has played the definitive role insofar as the founding fathers of literary theory, Plato and Aristotle, regarded literature as simpl...

on the relationship between critical thinking, metacognition and translation quality of literary and economic texts

این مطالعه سعی دارد تا رابطه تفکر انتقادی و مهارت های شناختی را به عنوان دو عنصر مهم روانشناسی شناختی با کیفیت ترجمه متون ادبی و اقتصادی بررسی کند. صد دانشجوی سال آخر ترجمه که در مقطع کارشناسی مشغول به تحصیل هستند برای شرکت در این مطالعه انتخاب شدند و آزمون های تافل تفکر انتقادی و مهارت های شناختی از آنها گرفته شد. آزمون ترجمه ادبی و اقتصادی نیز برای تعیین سطح کیفیت ترجمه گرفته شد. یافته های حا...

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

scheme of feet. See also acephalous, truncation. deixis, a term used in linguistics to denote those aspects of an utterance that refer to and depend upon the situation in which the utterance is made. Deictic words indicate the situational 'co-ordinates' of person

Literary Semiotics A Critical Approach

A comparison between two literary Quranic commentaries Al-Kashshaf and At-Tafsir Al-Bayani Lil-Quran

Quranic commentators have used different approaches one of the most ancient of which can be the literary one. Quranic eloquence and rhetoric are counted as miracle aspects of Quran. Some commentators, therefore, have sought to comment Quran literally to make Divine intention clear. This paper intends to study Al-Kashshaf and At-Tafsir Al-Bayani respectively by Zamakhshari and Bent Ash-Shati`a c...