unlike ordinary language, signs or elements of a literary language tend to develop a loose connection with their innate meanings and conceptions, and there appears to be no logical and natural tie between the words and their possible meanings. this fundamental gap or difference pushes a literary language  further to be dynamic and brings along various vistas for reading. what is important in de...

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask a...

abu al-al?’ al-ma’arri has presented his specific thought and viewpoint in arabic classical literature. he lived at the time when arabic literature was at its zenith of richness and maturity. this literary and thinking figure has affected the literary men after him in differing ways. contemporary poets, relying on his literature, have promoted their own literary innovations, and thereby have en...

It seems it is especially postmodern literature that undermines the belief in a clear and direct relationship between the physical world and the language depicting it. Quite recently, especially the possible worlds theories and their application in literary theory have tried to explain this relationship. Analyzing the narrative techniques used by Donald Barthelme in his short story The Dragon, ...

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...

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...