there are several reasons for the problems of translating russian works to persian. in the present article, stationmaster, a novel written by alexander pushkin, is investigated with emphasis on issues of translating the work from an intermediate language. in the discussion section of the paper, the definitions and different theories of literary translation and the identification of the characte...

frequency of vocabulary used in a piece of writing, prose or poetry, is one of the stylistic features of the writer. words are like bricks which constitute the structure of a literary work, and the way the writer puts or organizes the words , reflects his/her literary characteristics which in turn distinguishes him/her from other writers. being simply one of the elements constituting the writer...

It is widely acknowledged that emotion is deeply embedded in literary criticism. Even when we aspire to scientific analysis and objectivity, we assume that we share a love of literature. Loving Literature is a deep and fascinating exploration of this important assumption. Literary critics and professors of literature are expected not only to know but also to love their work. In the case of prof...

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, ...

Current machine translation (MT) techniques are continuously improving. In specific areas, post-editing (PE) can enable the production of high-quality translations relatively quickly. But is it feasible to translate a literary work (fiction, short story, etc) using such an MT+PE pipeline? This paper offers an initial response to this question. An essay by the American writer Richard Powers, cur...

critics often do not provide similiar definitions to literature_and those they give put emphasis on elements which separates literature from other arts . every literary work is consisted of five elements، namely, scntiments , imaginatios, thoughts ,music and style sentiments provide artistic immortality and everfreshness to a literary work ,imagination is avehicle which carries sentiment and ma...