Moralistic and didactic texts make up a large part of Persian literature. Undoubtedly, if "the inculcation of a particular concept into the mind of the reader and the attempt to persuade and conquer his mind" is not the main purpose of these texts, it is definitely one of their most important goals. In this sense, the poet or writer of such texts tries to persuade the reader and sway his mind t...

before being an islamic thinker, saied qutb was a literary scholar and critic whose impressionistic character as an islamic thinker was partially because of his magic and eloquent expression. nonetheless many people still know him as an islamic thinker without being informed of his critical and literary approaches, so his works on criticism and literature are becoming forgotten. this paper is a...

literary texts critics in the contemporary era have had an outstanding development. schools and critical approaches have been created in this regard such as structuralism, deconstruction or the attitudes which pay attention to reader’s reading. these attitudes do not belong to new text but belongs to the ancient ones as well. one of these schools was structuralism which its consequent was metho...

the history of jahangosha is a literary-historical work created byata malik joweini using verbal and spiritual industries and several metaphors and allegories from different quranic and islamic traditions and persian and arabic poems. one important aspect of this work, adducing or borrowing from arabic distiches, is going to be analyzed in this paper. joweini has used many different arabic vers...

as a literary work, a novel is imitation of actual life, it is as important as the conversation in the actual life, but for bakhtin, the issue is beyond the conversations in the stories. he takes every literary work in two levels to be studied. on one hand, every literary work is a response to its previous works, it also expects the future works, on the other hand, a novel is the field where th...

introduced in this inquiry and review is a balladry which exists both in divan of hassan ghaznavi and attar. in addition, the existing differences between the two also revealed balladry, and some lines in this ode were corrected according to divan of hassan ghaznavi. it is very important to note that the opening sixteen lines of this ode, except for the 7th and 8th lines, have been attributed t...

postmodernism is of the third period of human’s thought eras. during this era which spans the end of the nineteenth century to the present time , “creation “of the real replaces its “ discovery”. this stream is the extremist form of modernism. it has some specific qualities such as irony and mixture of popular art and formal art. this essay aims to analyze one of arabic modern texts named “coll...