the early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in iran reviled, on the one hand, a qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of iran. in this paper i examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through mehdi akhavan-sales’s poem “this autumn in ...

The early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in Iran reviled, on the one hand, a Qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of Iran. In this paper I examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through Mehdi Akhavan-Sales’s poem “This Autumn in ...

Communication includes all the ways that human beings can influence others. This involves not only speaking or writing, but also all human behavior in various ways, so there are two types of communicational signs that human beings use: verbal and non-verbal signs. In communication science, special attention has been paid to how non-verbal signs influence message transmission. The research has s...

commitment to social issues of human being is a dominant theme in contemporary poetry which introduces poets to the history who make an attempt to depict social concepts and solve the problems of society. abd al-wahhab al-bayyati and mehdi akhavan sales are two prominent poets who move along this atmosphere. they live in two communities with similar social conditions. due to common beliefs and ...

In this article, the aim of the authors is to study the role of repetition in creating music and parallelism in Nimayee poems in the three collections of poems by Mehdi Akhavan Sales: Zamestan, Akhere Shahname and Az Avesta. Accordingly, the researchers have investigated the various manners of repetition in creating parallelism in the poems at three levels: phonological parallelism, lexical par...

O. AKHAVAN∗,¶, A. T. REZAKHANI†,‡ and M. GOLSHANI∗,§ ∗Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box 11365-9161, Tehran, Iran †Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada ‡Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65, I-10133 Torino, Italy §Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Math...

narrative style is the main feature of mehdi akhavan sales (1928-1990), one of the famous contemporary persian poets. but what gives a special prominence to his narrative poems and makes it distinct from the works of other contemporary poets is his idiosyncratic use of narrative techniques and methods. he employed in his works the element of narration in a distinctive manner. although, the narr...

54 patients with localized or primary malignant melanoma had circulating cytoplasmic antibody. A few patients formerly positive but who had converted to negative, and some who on clinical grounds had a primary lesion but who had negative tests for cytoplasmic antibody, were found to have developed metastatic lesions. It is postulated that the halo naevus represents a seldom seen interim stage n...