Applied literature is a term that is the outcome of a need to put literature to tangible uses in the “real” world. A medical practitioner looking for a definition of life, for instance, finds literature a useful source for the answer. With paradigm shifts in scientific studies, interdisciplinarity has been a method to overcome the alienations that resulted from the isolation of disciplines from...

neo-classical sonnet, created out of iran’s classic poetry, is one of the contemporary poetic movements which have always been dynamic. the purpose of its leading poets was to make the traditional form of sonnet attuned with modern requirements. this poetic movement has benefited the poetic possibilities of which free verse has provided for persian poetry in terms of locution, language and lite...

divan school played an important role in modernism and modernity which were comprehensive in the early twentieth century. by a brief look at the poetries and odes it is founded that the school was about to found a new plan which weren't different from the classic poetry. one of the technical features is the simultaneous presence of english culture beside the arabic. from their point of vie...

This paper attempts to offer a fresh examination of the relationship between Empson’s early career as poet and his later erudite, largely influential, critical output. The theme waste, which dominates Collected Poems, partly accounts for decision abandon poetry, invest interest in complexity ambiguity modernist/postmodernist procedure, way ahead contemporary literary theory at time. waste is fu...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...

From the first commentaries of Akhundzadeh to Jamalzadeh’s introduction to Yeki Bud YekiNabud, i.e., over a period of almost fifty years, we can see a collection of a few scattered commentaries on story and novel which are rarely noticed by researchers. These scattered commentaries can be regarded as the first literary manifests of story and novel. These critiques and commentaries include subje...

The topic in question is concerned with the sociological aspect of literature referring to Iran’s literary and historical experience. The basis of sociological criticism is built on the premise that literary works are the products of social life and that a comprehensive understanding of a work without considering its social aspects is impractical. To reach a better, more scientific, and more pr...

Today the criteria for evaluating translations of literary texts combine vast practical experience, insights translation theory and demands set by contemporary society literature. The article describes stages developing offers integrative multicomponent model which comprises aesthetic information, text unity, dominant style features their frequency, diachronic distance, translator’s individual ...