How to characterize a literary genre is a much debated problem, which can be approached with useful results by combining models drawn from both Literary Theory and Computer Science. Once a genre is specified with some rigour in a constructive way, it becomes possible not only to determine whether a given plot is a legitimate representative of the genre, but also to generate such plots, an abili...

sometimes, while investigating familiar and common genres of persian literature, some unfamiliar genres appear. these genres were used mostly in some earlier periods. one of these genres is sarâpâ. by investigating historical and geographical backgrounds of this genre the reasons for its popularity, especially in the period of the indian style, are revealed. this article tries to introduce sarâ...

This paper tries to examine literature as history, with an emphasis on the crucial role of fiction in narrating the marginalized events of history. Some fictions are actual accounts of events in history, and some are reflection of events. Actually, literature and history are integrated to each other, in a way that, pure history which shows us the reality and truth is just a myth. The pens writi...

The article is devoted to the study of genre literary epitaph in Tabasaran poetry. In water part, which has a theoretical character, difference between cemetery and shown, constitutional signs two varieties are revealed, degree mastering literatures peoples Dagestan stated. main part work, thematic, structural compositional analysis, as well analysis subjective organization texts were carried o...

the vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). while there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. after look...

urdu literature has provided an outstanding treasure by using all persian literary genres presented in both verse and prose. among all literary genres of poetry elegy is the kind which some of the scholars and critics of the subcontinent consider as an independent genre from arabic and persian literature. there is no doubt that mourning and lamenting for the dead has always been part of every n...