mustafa lutfi el-manfaluti is one of the literary men whose writing method was effective on literary change of the previous generation. he was born in egypt. he was interested in reading literary books; that’s why he had completed the science by mohammad abdoh. he had translated many stories and articles and had applied some french stories in his writings. his books are the most eloquent arabic...

the thought of leaving this world for the heavens, paradise and hell inspired by the holy prophet’s ascension appeared in the form of fictional stories in the arabic literature in the fifth century (solar calendar), i.e. in the late abbasid period, although the history of such journeys goes back to the time before islam. as it goes in pahlavi texts, the first one to have gone on oneiric journey...

People are constrained by their culture and social life when telling stories. A second language learner then cannot be expected to tell stories in the target language without cross-cultural effects that influence the way of narration. The present study examined the role of the first language (L1) and second language (L2) in the organization of narratives by focusing on Persian speakers’ and EFL...

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

The present study is part of a movement to safeguard Malay folktales as an unsung intangible cultural heritage (ICH). A folktale representation oral traditions and expressions. This converges on literary revitalised form folktales. As urged by UNESCO, the viability ICH achievable via scientific research, among other things. Therefore, considering small amount at moment, current endeavours exami...

much less certain precisely how the aesthetic codification occurs, or what theoretical encounters of this variety would have done for narratives already encoded in existing literary forms. For example, what would Good make of the narrative encodement of Emma Bovary's illness or the stories of the famous ailing figures in Proust and Mann? Did they not also have significant anthropological contex...