CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

In this article, I compare William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Sadeq Chubak’s The Patient ‎Stone ‎with respect to the theme of death and from the perspective of Existentialism. I argue that ‎despite ‎Faulkner’s influence on Chubak and similarities in their writings, the Iranian modernist novel ‎presents ‎intellectual and aesthetic nuances catering to the domestic material circumstances of ‎it...

Abstract This article examines twentieth-century Persian translations of Urdu-language works about literature, focusing on two different an influential work literary history, Shiʿr al-ʿAjam ( Poetry the Persians ), by Shibli Nuʿmani. The offers a close, comparative reading Afghan and Iranian in order to understand why this voluminous text were published within such short time period. These reve...

of yore, literary works have reflected social relationship and interaction in communities. the extent of this mutual impact depends on type of works and knowledge and information of their authors. golestan book of saadi that is considered as an example of persian speech art in both prose and poetry fields comprises of unique collectanea of cute implications in terms of content that resulted fro...

this article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. as stated by tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...