as the form and appearance of a literature work inevitably affect thestructure and shape ofthatwork, theyplay animportant role in its permanence.in this study, factors and elementsaffecting the cohesion, coherence, form and structure of allegories and debates in parvin'scollection were analyzed using a systematic method. the results of the study can becategorizedin four groups. first, in p...

The study of inductive and coinductive types (like finite lists and streams, respectively) is usually conducted within the framework of category theory, which to all intents and purposes is a theory of sets and functions between sets. Allegory theory, an extension of category theory due to Freyd, is better suited to modelling relations between sets as opposed to functions between sets. The ques...

Abstract: Allegories are enriched categories generalizing a category of sets and binary relations. Accordingly, relational products in an allegory can be viewed as a generalization of Cartesian products. There are several definitions of relational products currently in the literature. Interestingly, definitions for binary products do not generalize easily to n-ary ones. In this paper, we provid...

This paper puts forward a mystical reading of Plato’s Allegory the Cave by comparing it with some allegories from Sufi literature, Islamic tradition. The argues that determining parts allegory, such as escaping cave world shadows; seeing sun/truth and becoming philosopher; necessity returning to cave, have significant similarities what Sufis said about their experience spiritual enlightenment. ...