In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

In her article "Literary Aspects in New Media Art Works" examples of new media literature in the works of While Železnikar is primarily a net interventions, the literary segments in uses them to initiate a happening. works which require a readerly perception flavor of such works which can later offer works of art. > ISSN 1481-4374 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Purdue University Press , the...

Interactivity and open-ending are two concepts which have gained popularity with the incursion of hypertext in the field of literary creation. However, their meaning is not unanimous as there is a multiplicity of coexisting definitions. This chapter organizes definitions in two poles, which mark two different approaches to the study of literature in the age of the new information technology: th...

Electronic versions of literary works abound on the Internet and the rapid dissemination of electronic readers will make electronic books more and more common. It is often the case that literary works exist in more than one language, suggesting that, if properly aligned, they could be turned into useful resources for many practical applications, such as writing and language learning aids, trans...

Horizon of expectations, as a core concept in Reception Aesthetics, provides a new methodological basis for literary translation. Owing to this theory, literary translation is no longer a one-way process which is text-centered and transmitted by a translator with readers passively accepting everything, but an ever-going dialogic process between translator and the literary work, and between tran...

Literary works are the carriers of many regulations, values, norms, beliefs, structures and existential, cultural, and social aspects of their time. Many of the social and cultural realities of past centuries embedded within the extant literary works of those centuries can be identified and followed through. The critical approach in discourse analysis of literary texts provides a more precise k...