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Edris Amini; Abolhasan Amin Moghaddasi
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Persian and Arabic have had long-lasting religious and cultural symbiosis. Due to their speakers’ similar cultural conditions and geographical proximity, the two languages have lived a long time near each other, have grown together and enriched each other. The authors of this article studied the word ...
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Persian and Arabic have had long-lasting religious and cultural symbiosis. Due to their speakers’ similar cultural conditions and geographical proximity, the two languages have lived a long time near each other, have grown together and enriched each other. The authors of this article studied the word formation processes in the two languages and showed the capabilities and limitations of each of these two languages in dynamicity and productivity. The study has scrutinized derivation, compounding and semantic change in words as three main common mechanisms of word formation in the two languages. The results show that although compared to Arabic, fewer texts have been written in Persian and the language has had a passive stance to Arabic, the well-developed derivational and compound structure Persian has served the productivity of the language during the last century and a wide range of new words have found their way to the vocabulary of the mass reservoir of Persian vocabulary. In contrast, the templatic nature of derivation in Arabic, peculiar to the language, brings about certain constraints in the production of compound words that are part of the lexicon of every living language.
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Omid Izanloo; Hasan Abdollahi
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Realism represents the world as it is, not as we want. Realistic novel is a depiction of the society with all its ugliness and beauty. The novelist depicts an event in a specific location, at a specific time by means of characters and conducts it in a particular direction through the choice of a point ...
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Realism represents the world as it is, not as we want. Realistic novel is a depiction of the society with all its ugliness and beauty. The novelist depicts an event in a specific location, at a specific time by means of characters and conducts it in a particular direction through the choice of a point of view. This image of the time, location, characters and point of view shows the history of society along with its economic and political developments. The School in Al-e-Ahmad’s novel and Alley in Najib Mahfouz’s novel are two places in a certain period in a society where the colonial powers and internal despotism determine with their actions the destiny of the people of the land that they rule. The destiny of these people is the topic of these two novels.
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Somayyeh Hajati; Ali Safaie Sangari
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In the field of critical literature, Siavash Kasraie and Ahmad Matar's poems can be comparatively analyzed in terms of their social background, poetic content and linguistic strategies. Applying A.van Dijk’s socio–cognitive model of discourses studies, this paper uses critical discourse analysis ...
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In the field of critical literature, Siavash Kasraie and Ahmad Matar's poems can be comparatively analyzed in terms of their social background, poetic content and linguistic strategies. Applying A.van Dijk’s socio–cognitive model of discourses studies, this paper uses critical discourse analysis to identify discourses formed in the works of the poets and analyzes the ideologies and discourse-oriented linguistic mechanism of the poems. A comparative study of the poems shows that both poets, use poetic language and create a critical discourse to establish a delicate link between the world of poetry and the reality, and through this, they have been forerunners in the awakening of the revolutionary nation. The linguistic and conceptual structure of the discourses formed in poems indicate that beside commitment to fight and criticism, Kasraie and Matar have also maintained the literary commitment and the effectiveness of the poem and have used linguistic strategies to create a dominate and integrated critical discourse against dictatorship.
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Sayyed Mohammad Baqer Hosseini; Razieh Khosravi
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The stream of consciousness deals with the psychological aspects of the characters in a novel. It refers to one’s entire domain of consciousness and his emotional-psychological reaction which begins from pre-speech level and ends in a completely separate logical section. The story of al-Safibah (the ...
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The stream of consciousness deals with the psychological aspects of the characters in a novel. It refers to one’s entire domain of consciousness and his emotional-psychological reaction which begins from pre-speech level and ends in a completely separate logical section. The story of al-Safibah (the ship) by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra is a modern Arab story written in this manner. Using a mixture of omniscient point of view and monologue, the writer reports the ideas and memories of the two main narrators of the story and their reaction to the events in their lives. The present paper seeks to analyze the story and compare the different dimensions and features of the stream of consciousness in this novel.
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Hajar Sedaghatmehr; Zineh Erfatpour
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One of the commonest topics of Pre-Islamic poems is Azelah (reproachful woman) and her reproaches about the poet and of his way of thinking and behavior. The fear of death and the desire to leave a good name and be a champion can cause the poet to go to extremes in donating the property and make him ...
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One of the commonest topics of Pre-Islamic poems is Azelah (reproachful woman) and her reproaches about the poet and of his way of thinking and behavior. The fear of death and the desire to leave a good name and be a champion can cause the poet to go to extremes in donating the property and make him bold and fearless. On the other hand, the poet is worried about death and inexistence. Therefore, two conflicting characters are found in these kinds of poems. One is the poet (himself), who is a fearless extremist, and the other one is the Azelah (blamer) who appears as a moderate and wise woman. The opposition between these two characters appears in the form of external conversation. Thus, this research not only seeks to find out the style and technique of speech in the odes in which the blamer is present, but also tries to analyze the concept of Azelah and its symbols in Pre-Islamic poems .
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Ali Akbar Mollaie
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Abufiras al-Hamdani is a romantic poet of the fourth century A. H. who composed a mourning ode for his mother when he was in the Roman’s prison; and Barudi is a gifted poet of the thirteenth century A. H. who, in the time of exile, shed tears of wistfulness and composed a magnificent ode in memory ...
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Abufiras al-Hamdani is a romantic poet of the fourth century A. H. who composed a mourning ode for his mother when he was in the Roman’s prison; and Barudi is a gifted poet of the thirteenth century A. H. who, in the time of exile, shed tears of wistfulness and composed a magnificent ode in memory of his late wife. These two odes are of the most magnificent mourning poems of these two poets and Arabic literature. An analysis of the structure and the content of these two immortal works, and putting them on the scale of criticism and equalization make up the vast perspective of this writing. The present study suggests that these two meritorious works, with their thematic unity and artistic veracity, picture the painful sentiments, mental concerns, and conditions governing the lives of these afflicted poets well and in an artistic manner. The results of the present study show that although the artistic techniques of expressing the poets’ affection have differentiated the odes, the transcendental affection, the outstanding personality and the relatively similar conditions of these two poets have given them a similar atmosphere.
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Ali Najafi Ivaki
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Contemporary Arab poets have started to recall classic and especially religious figures in their poems to present experiences and ideologies, to rescue the poetry from reportage state and also to enhance their own poetry. The reason why they make use of these religious figures in their poetry is their ...
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Contemporary Arab poets have started to recall classic and especially religious figures in their poems to present experiences and ideologies, to rescue the poetry from reportage state and also to enhance their own poetry. The reason why they make use of these religious figures in their poetry is their potential implications and their compatibility with poet’s own current experiences. Poets also make use of these figures to convey their intellectual concepts in a symbolic form. The present study tries to investigate the presence of the prophet Job in contemporary Arabic poetry. In this regard, we first take a glance at personal features of the prophet Job from the perspective of Quran and Old Testament, then from the perspective of three contemporary Arab poet’s approach, namely Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Mahmoud Darwish, Abd al-Aziz al-Maghaleh, to see how they represent this religious figure in their poetry. The result shows that Job in the contemporary Arabic poetry is an indication of their individual and social concerns.
