drawing upon some teachings of modern literary criticism and michail bakhtin’s notion of polyphony, the article tries to compare selected iranian contemporary literary and dramatic texts. polyphony, as the potential capacity of a text to produce and reproduce meaning, gives the reader the chance of analyzing the dialogical and narrative patterns of iranian novels and dramas in a new perception....

The literary style of henry James has attracted the attention of a number of leading analytic philosophers who are drawn to make claims for the philosophical signiicance of works of literature. Many of these philosophical commentators share a common approach: namely, they locate the philosophical center of gravity of James’s style in a philosophical view that his way of writing is understood to...

The creation of a literary biography requires an awareness both of how we construct what we believe we ‘know’ about a writer, and how the stories we adopt change our reading of their works. Research into the sources used to construct Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s biographies supports the conclusion that when writers can no longer create their own stories, those created about them are necessarily ...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

before being an islamic thinker, saied qutb was a literary scholar and critic whose impressionistic character as an islamic thinker was partially because of his magic and eloquent expression. nonetheless many people still know him as an islamic thinker without being informed of his critical and literary approaches, so his works on criticism and literature are becoming forgotten. this paper is a...