as an iranian literary work, it might seem that the shahnamah is a national epic which has been composed to promote persian language and protect historical and cultural identity of iranians against the dominance of alien cultures. however, this paper attemp to argue that the investigation of the stories, characters, and the symbols presented in the shahnamah indicate that ferdowsi's though...

Translation is an indispensable tool for communication between the diverse linguistic groups. It opens new horizons for the people living in a country so that it makes changes and improvements in their society, especially in the literature. Through the translation process, some literary principles and elements are introduced into the home literature which did not exist before. These features em...

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

Abstract László Arany's Eredeti népmesék (Authentic Folktales, 1862) is an iconic collection of folktales. The tales in this publication have been entrenched the national identity as classic Hungarian folktales, and narrative style has established public consciousness Arany family's folktales ultimately had a similar function culture Kinder- und Hausmärchen Brothers Grimm Germany, but while tex...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...