motif is a literary device that is usually used to enrich a text. it has not only to do with any recurring element within a literary work but with the creation of certain effects on the reader. the contemporary iraqi poet, yahya samavi, has used motif not only as a decorative device but as a means to convey ideas dominant in his poetry. one of these dominant motives which reflect his life and m...

the comparison of arabic literature and persian literature is the comparison between two similar literatures though the impact of persian literature on arabic literature is more profound. hossein mojib almesri, the poet under discussion in this paper has been influenced by persian literature specifically in two areas: symbolism and poetic forms. this paper is an attempt to discuss cultural inte...

abd al - salam al-’ujayli is a syrian physician, literary man and novelist. by his specific style and personal method in expression and description, al-’ujayli is a link between leading authors of thirty and forty decades of twenty century on one hand, and innovators of fifty and sixty decades on the other hand. his literary works are a combination of abilities of these two generations. his sty...

taqaddom, a literary scientific, political, social and humour magazine was licensed to publish in 1925, when reza khan, the army commander, came into power. its licence holders were mirza ahmad khan faramarzj and his brother abdurrahman, afetr a two-year del a jurist issue of the magazine was published in 64 pages in sep. 1927. according to abdorrahman faramarzl, the magazine bad been planned t...

â â â â â  features of gibranian utopia in his literary works â  â sardar aslani * â  â abstractâ  every thinker and man of letters who pursues a goal in his or her works has a utopia. after introducing utopia by plato, farabi and st. augustine, gibran khalil gibran established the foundations of his own particular utopia. the features of his utopia are as follows: 1) freedom 2) kindness 3) jus...

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

extended abstract 1. introduction abbasid period can be regarded as an epoch in which poetry and eulogy in persia reached maturity, i.e., in which poetry has become a means of praise and admiration (dayf, 2006, p. 565). the kings of this dynasty gathered a group of flattered eulogists and used them for political announcements (alebadi, 2006, p. 13), by allocating precious gifts of war booty to ...