death is one of the most inspiring concepts in most of well-known contemporary western and arab poets’works,including t.s. eliot and badr shakir al-sayyab’s. it plays a unique role in shaping the modern poetry. this paper contains a comparative archetypal-based analysis of symbolic aspects of death in “the waste land”, the most famous literary work by t.s.eliot whose impression on al-sayyab was...

the knowledge of bygone times of a nation and the discovery of the way through which their thought and culture and civilization developed throughout ages, are of great important for the next generations of that nation and their success in future ways of development. unquestionably, the literary works contain the greatest part of the cultural and mental products and legacy of a nation and deserv...

intertextuality is a theory that by its entrance to the field of literary criticism caused excellent change in this field. according to this theory each composition, consciously or unconsciously is a birth and rereading of previous or contemporary composition. according to this theory, we saw many arabic texts that each of them in any kind or shape is in relation with classic arabic texts and –...

This paper seeks to think creatively about the body of research which claims there is a link between heavy metal music and adolescent alienation, self-destructive behaviours, self-harm and suicide. Such research has been criticised, often by people who belong to heavy metal subcultures, as systematically neglecting to explore, in a meaningful manner, the psychosocial benefits for individuals wh...

this question may be raised in the mind of reader of this article that what motivation causes treating the feature of parnassism , in the ode of pre-islamic arab poet living hundreds of years before the rise of this school. did imru' al-qais’ belong to the time beyond his contemporary period or the problem is something else? in fact although parnassism is a new name for a special literary schoo...

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...

andré chénier (1762-1794) is the greatest and the best known french poet of the 18th century. he is famous especially for his courageous opposition to the power of the terror in the early years of the french revolution which caused finally his death by guillotine. the study of his poetical works can clarify the literary transition between neoclassicism and romanticism. this paper, by describing...