The present paper aimed at highlighting the judicious incorporation of literary genres (i.e. novel, short story/fiction, drama, and poetry) as a supposedly inspiring teaching technique and an allegedly potent learning resource into ESL/EFL curricula. The rationale behind this pedagogical inclusion is to promote both teaching and learning effectiveness through capitalizing intensively on the gen...

In the Czech language there exists, aside from the ‘literary’ (standard) language, a spoken form, which is generally regarded as a special and independent code. It has been known as Common Czech (hereafter CC) since Havránek (1934). The differences between CC and the Czech Literary Language (hereafter LC) are quite substantial. They concern not only the lexicon, phraseology and syntax, but also...

based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

there are several reasons for the problems of translating russian works to persian. in the present article, stationmaster, a novel written by alexander pushkin, is investigated with emphasis on issues of translating the work from an intermediate language. in the discussion section of the paper, the definitions and different theories of literary translation and the identification of the characte...

A major challenge of literature is that it is stubbornly indeterminate. Both a vice and a virtue, the indeterminateness of literary language has acquired the status of an impasse, one which was perhaps most directly and resolutely faced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Stéphane Mallarmé. The question of whether the indeterminateness of literary language is a vice or a virtue, however, has rarely been tr...