As the most prominent novelist in contemporary Persian prose, Jalal Ale-Ahmad has had great influence on Persian writers, insofar as many writers have followed his suit. Employment of colloquial language is the characteristic style of his fiction. What makes his different, however, is mainly the employment of colloquialism in a subtle, precise and accurate way. Due to the extensive use of collo...

How can we understand, on a theoretical level, the presence of music in French novels eighteenth-century? This article examines this question light prevailing theories and prose fiction. By identifying major discrepancies between two, aim is to provide different basis for our understanding eighteenth-century narrative.

In this paper I investigate the contribution Text World Theory (Werth 1999, Gavins 2007) can make to an understanding of how viewpoint effects are brought about in prose fiction. Text World Theory is concerned with how language, as well as the context in which it is produced/received, leads the participants in the discourse to build mental representations for the situations being described, des...