Arabic Literature - Articles in Press

The Essence of Meaning and Beauty in Adunis’s Thought and Poetry from the Perspective of Philosophical Hermeneutics

Morteza Amirinejad; Farshid Torkashvand

Volume 12, Issue 1 , March 2020, , Pages 93-110

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.292664.612145

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Since the emergence of modern Arabic poetry the essence of meaning and beauty has been one of the challenging issues and has been the subject of a considerable part of the literary ... Read More

The Elements of Postmodernism in The Day of the Assassination of the President by Naguib Mahfouz

Sadeq Askari; Nahid Khodadadian; Parviz Jahanshahloo

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, , Pages 101-120

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.275786.612030

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Postmodernism refers to a wide range of opinions that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. The Day of the Assassination of the President by Naguib Mahfouz, a contemporary ... Read More

Semiotics of Words Denoting the Concept of Homeland in the Poems of Suleiman al-Isa According to Pierce's View

Rabi Amiri; Tooraj Zeinivand; Jahangir Amiri

Volume 13, Issue 3 , November 2021, , Pages 105-126

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.308779.612263

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Literary semiotics is a new method of literary criticism that examines the role of linguistic signs in the creation of poetic themes and manifests its internal actions by exploring ... Read More Literary semiotics is a new method of literary criticism that examines the role of linguistic signs in the creation of poetic themes and manifests its internal actions by exploring the secondary layers of the text and represents the main meaning and purpose of the poet. Pierce is one of the most famous semiotic theorists who, by presenting a three-dimensional model for the sign, created a great change in this science and provided the ground for criticizing the semantic structure of literary works. The concept of sign in this model arises from the relationship between its three components, namely representation, interpretation and subject. Signs in Pierce's theory consist of a chain of causes and effects that are governed by a kind of cause and effect relationship. The new poetry is completely different from the old one in terms of structure and content, and instead of explicitly expressing the themes of his poetry, the poet uses virtual language and linguistic symbols and indirectly expresses the purposes of his poetry. Suleiman Al-Issi is a famous Syrian poet and one of the poets of modernity whose most important and frequent subject of his poetry is patriotism due to his committed tendency towards the literature and thoughts of nationalism. Considering that Suleiman Al-Issi also uses covert and indirect language to express his literary messages and uses language signs, the present study based on Pierce's theory tries to analyze the signs related to the concept of homeland and to critique the role of secrets in the construction of signs. The concept of homeland in Al-Issi's poetry is not limited to his country, Syria, but includes the entire Arab world. From the results of the research, it can be pointed out that the signs of patriotism in the poems of Suleiman Al-Issi have been produced in the form of cryptographic structures of the creator of the work, aesthetics, space, time and intertextuality. Through the correct aArrangement of explicit meanings together and within the context of the text, he expresses the implicit meanings of the concept of homeland in imaginative language, thereby guiding the reader's mind from the surface of speech to the deepest layers of the text and by this, he has recited the secondary intentions behind words and the phrases of his poetry. Therefore, in this way, it gives sensory and tangible effects to abstract concepts. Hence, Al-Issi can be considered one of the best poets in the Arab world in using abstract concepts in an eloquent, effective and at the same time believable format that can impress any reader. He develops readers’ minds to feel the poetry more easily and sympathize with it.

An Investigation of the Three Features of Surrealism in the Poetry of Mohammad Ali Shams al-Din

fahimeh mirzai jaberi; sardar aslani; seyyed reza soleimanzdeh najafi; hosean aghhosini

Volume 11, Issue 2 , October 2019, , Pages 109-127

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.237321.611753

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Mohammad Ali Shams al-Din is one of the contemporary modernist poets of Lebanon. Due to his familiarity with Western literature and literary schools and his interest in Eastern mysticism, ... Read More

A Sociological Cognitive Analysis of the Discourse of Jerir and Akhtal’s Parodies Based on van Dijk’s Model

Hasan Azami Khavirad; Abdolbaset Arab Yoosefabadi

Volume 12, Issue 2 , July 2020, , Pages 109-132

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.275833.612031

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The discourse of literary texts can be viewed from a variety of perspectives and all the dimensions of their various levels can be evaluated. Discourse analysis provides an opportunity ... Read More

A Study of Poems on [Imam Ali’s] Succession

Muhammad-Hussein Vātheqi-Rād

Volume 1, Issue 2 , February 2010, , Pages 111-138

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2010.28682

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Designating Imam Ali (pbuh) as the successor of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) is a source of Shia-Sunni split. To prove it, however, Shia provides arguments found in the Holy Qur’an, ... Read More

The Semiotics of Characters in "Yutalibuni Bi al-Raqsa al-Kamila He Asked Me to Dance" by Muna Shafei

Raja AbuAli; Akram Habibi bardboury

Volume 11, Issue 1 , July 2019, , Pages 111-132

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.257565.611905

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Characters represent the main role in dramatic works of art. As characterization paves the way to know about the life of real characters, the characters undertake the task of narrative ... Read More Characters represent the main role in dramatic works of art. As characterization paves the way to know about the life of real characters, the characters undertake the task of narrative acts and they seeking to outpouring these actions to the definite end. It is an important element for the perception of reality through the its movement and works and emotions that penetrate the context of the novel and framed from the beginning to the last words and it must be the details of physical character and historical, cultural, ethnic and social characteristics that paint the general impression about the character to be included in the text of the novel; Because the novel aims at reflect human meanings. Thus, the present paper aims at review the semiotics of the characters in the novel "he Asked me to Dance" (Yutªlibuni Bi al-Raqsa al-Kªmila) by Kuwaiti novelist Munª Shᾱfei. the present research followed the descriptive analysis, and chosed the A.J. Greimas’s model for Semiotics of Characters in the novel, based on this model the characters (subject/ actor) have goals in novels, they also have incentives to achieve their goals, according to this the characters are driven by their motivating incentives toward their goal which is effect )object) and maybe these actors/subjects (characters) faced with assistance factors in reaching their goals. The novel is full of feelings and love. The novel "he Asked me to Dance" (Yutªlibuni Bi al-Raqsa al-Kªmila) is about female characters in families that a husband has multiple wives. This novel as a feminist novel investingtigates woman’s concerns and issues clearly, it considers women as the main subject to show her relationship with men and society. In the end, the article reached that Munª Shªfei gave the character of the novel a super importance and it’s visible, psychological and social dimensions have emerged clearly. In other words, The characters were presented through several methods in the novel "he Asked me to Dance" that including: reporting style and psychological and imaginative ways, Moreover, the names of the characters are are not arbitrary but chose by writer for narrative and certain reasons which deter the location of each character in the narrative text; each character has different subjective, replacement, virtual or aesthetical roles in the story.

A study about “Rahman and Rahim” based on the rule: “an increase in language leads to an increase in meaning”

Gholam Abbas Rezayi Haftaduri; Naeem Rahmani

Volume 8, Issue 2 , August 2017, , Pages 113-132

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2017.62561

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Examining the Narrative Perspective in Sinan Antoon's "Ya Maryam" Through the Uspensky and Fowler Model

Ali Sayadani; Parviz Ahmadzadeh houch; Sepideh Bagheri ozan

Volume 15, Issue 3 , September 2023, , Pages 115-139

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.355945.612661

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Narrative perspective is the point of view from which a story is narrated, and it is one of the central elements examined in the analysis of narrative texts. The comprehensive and organized ... Read More

place implication in Maqamaat Al-Hareeri

Volume 8, Issue 1 , September 2016, , Pages 117-136

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.60350

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This study aims at review and discuss types of places mentioned in Al-Hareeri`s Maqamaat and their significance and relevance to mankind`s religious, socioeconomic and literary life ... Read More

Artistic Images in Old and New Criticism: Metaphor in the Works of Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani and Jaber Asfour

Abdolhossein Feqhi; Mohamad Reza Ghaffari

Volume 13, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 117-139

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.276891.612037

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The subject of this article is the image of art between old and new rhetoric and, in particular, metaphor according to Jaber Asfour’s view. The artistic expression of nature and ... Read More

“Reflection of Occupation Event (1948) in poems versified by Palestinian female poets”

Ezzati molla Ebrahim

Volume 3, Issue 2 , November 2011, , Pages 119-136

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After occupation of Palestine by Zionists in 1948, some of Palestinians became refugees to adjacent Arabic countries and some of other people were inhabited inside the occupied land, ... Read More

Homonymy and Polysemy in Arabic Language

Mahmood Shahbazi

Volume 7, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 119-136

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2016.58091

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Homonymy, along with synonymy and contraries, is an important semantic discussion that has been studied and variously defined by linguists in the past. The contemporary linguists believe ... Read More

The Element of Time in Muhammad Afifi Matar’s Poem “Uprooted Steps”

Hamed Poorheshmati; Shahriar Hemati

Volume 12, Issue 3 , November 2020, , Pages 119-142

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.254687.611878

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Arabic neo-poetry is known for breaking down the traditional structure of poetry and extending its semantic boundaries by equipping the literary discourses with narrative structures ... Read More Arabic neo-poetry is known for breaking down the traditional structure of poetry and extending its semantic boundaries by equipping the literary discourses with narrative structures which enable the poet to show their creative imagination and aesthetic views towards objects. “Time” is one of the prominent elements of narration. Formerly, it manifested itself through the logical sequence of events, whereas nowadays narration time does not depend on this sequence and the narrator can change its structure through the interaction between different levels of time to avoid monotonousness. Muhammad Afifi Matar has paid special attention this in his poem “Uprooted Steps” in which, through forming a semantic bridge between present, past, and future events, we see a temporal overlap. This article seeks to analyze the element of time in this poem. It suggests that the poem has a fluid temporal structure so that inside time present, the past and the future are contained. In many cases, the poet does not narrate the events according to the order of their happening, but rather delays or even stops them. The functions of time in this poem are different, changeable, and intertwined depending on the context of the events. These events sometimes take a long time and sometimes happen in the blink of an eye to create a temporal overlap between the past, the future, and the present. Returning to the past in the context of the present sometimes depicts the unpleasant experiences of the past, and sometimes has epic and hopeful effects through the historical calling of non-narrative characters. The poem uses flashforwards from the beginning to highlight future events and to respond as early as possible to the reader’s curiosity about the future. The poet continously plays with the time of narration; to avoid monotonousness, he, with the aid of temporal paradoxes, fills the gaps in time past, informs the reader of future events before their happening, and sometimes interferes with the the passage of time.

Imam Hussain`s (peace be to him) Symbolic Character in Sharif Morteza`s Poem

Sabereh Siavashi; Mowla Shekarimir

Volume 5, Issue 1 , July 2013, , Pages 125-146

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2013.35589

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The event of Ashura is an incomparable epic in human history that remains Imam Hussain`s liberal -mindness and fight against cruelty. The character of Imam Hussain is higher than Shiite ... Read More

Ibn Baabak and His Connection to Literary Movement During His Lifetime

Mohammad Ali Azarshab; Mohammad Hasan Foadian; Ali Akbar Forati

Volume 6, Issue 1 , November 2014, , Pages 127-152

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2014.52027

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Ibn Baabak is a poet who is not known as he deserves. We do not find many things about or from him except some imitative repeated phrases and so here we have talked about him briefly ... Read More

Clarification of emotion and its position in the most important of Shistu prayer publication

Mahdi Torkashvand; Mousa Arabi; Mojtaba Torkashvand

Volume 4, Issue 1 , June 2012, , Pages 129-152

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2012.29687

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Emotion is a force with which we convey our interior feeling such as love, hatred, anger, anxiety and is general all our joys to the others.emotin, or maybe its force by itself is one ... Read More

An analysis on Characteristics of the Stream of Consciousness in Mu’allaqat-e-sab’e, Based on the Narrative Techniques

Mohammad Saleh Sharif Askari; Morteza Zare beromi

Volume 7, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 129-154

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.56680

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Narration is a cognitive tool to understand the experience flow and the theses of Analysis of stream of consciousness is considered as one of the most recent and popular methods of ... Read More

The Dialectic of Place and self, and its Reflection in the Structure of Al-Shattat Narrative by Rafat Hamdone

Isa Zare Dorniani

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2022, , Pages 129-148

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.322468.612381

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The element of a significant place of residence. Elements of The element of place is one of the most important elements of the narrative, which has various forms. This element has a ... Read More

Examining Archetypes in Contemporary Ashurai Plays (Study Case of Al-Hur al-Riyahi Play)

Zahra Salimi; Narges Ansari

Volume 15, Issue 1 , March 2023, , Pages 129-148

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.345214.612560

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Criticism of literary works based on archetypal criticism is one of the types of psychological criticism based on the theories of Carl Gustav Jung. He considers the products of the ... Read More Criticism of literary works based on archetypal criticism is one of the types of psychological criticism based on the theories of Carl Gustav Jung. He considers the products of the collective unconscious to be examples of archetypes, which appear in cases such as self, shadow, anima, animus, etc. Finds; The manifestation of the mental and psychological aspects of the characters of the play and the place of the inner unconscious in the play of Al-Harr al-Riyahi caused this article with the aim of analyzing the archetypes in this work based on Jung's theories and using the descriptive-analytical method with a new approach to this Ashurai work. to study The archetype of the self, the shadow, the feminine element (anima) and the use of different colors are among the archetypes in this play. Analyzing the play of Al-Harr al-Riyahi based on Jung's theory is one of the ways to penetrate and deeply understand the content of the play, and the knowledge of the unconscious of the characters of the play leads to the recognition of the hidden secrets and deep concepts of this type of works. Among the archetypes used in this play, we can mention the self and the shadow, and the contrast between two mental states in this play represents the contrast between these two archetypes. Har Riahi is a symbol of self-awareness and awakening (self), and Shammar bin Dhi al-Jawshan is a symbol of neglect and submission (shadow) to the self, that is, the opposition of good and evil, which has been the focus of many religions throughout the world. In this play, the archetype of color is also reflected in the characters of the play. The use of black color has been used to express certain concepts such as turbidity and hostility, which the archetype of the shadow is frequently involved with, and the color white evokes the concept of purity and innocence, which is observed in the expression of states related to the archetype of the self, and finally the color Red is an indescribable expression of eternal life and immortality, which finds its meaning in the pure blood of Imam Hussain (peace be upon him).

Bio-Power in Arabic Sci-fi, Foucault's Reading of the Novel "Al-Sayyid Min Haql Al-Sabankh" by Sabri Musa

Zohreh Naemi; Farhang Mafakheri

Volume 14, Issue 3 , October 2022, , Pages 129-149

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.341612.612539

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Sci-fi is one of the types of literature that has been introduced in fiction after the World War II and the industrialization of societies. One of the themes of this literary genre ... Read More

The Analysis of Meta-Function in Resalat Al-Ghufran by Abu al-ʿAlaʾ Al-Ma'arri, The Official Model of Michael Hallidayn

Foad Abdolahzadeh; Mohamad Yaghoubi; Gholamabbas Rezaeehaftador; Abdolhamid Ahmadi

Volume 15, Issue 2 , May 2023, , Pages 129-144

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.352133.612617

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Today, various theories of linguistics with widely used procedures have a significant impact on the field of literary texts analysis. One of these theories is the social view of language ... Read More

A Critique of the Analysis of Manṣūbāt in the Books on Al-Alfiyah, Relying on the Views of Al-Azharī, Al-Makkūdī, and ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd

yaser heydari; Golamabas Rezaee; Mohamadhasan Foadeyan; Ali akbar Forati

Volume 16, Issue 1 , March 2024, , Pages 131-146

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.349729.612597

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The science of naḥw or Arabic grammar discusses the relationship between the words of a sentence, with the aim of teaching Arabic speakers how to speak, read and write correctly, ... Read More

Stylistics of M.Darvish’s poems

Hassan Rahmani-rad; Marzieh abad; Meisam imanian

Volume 6, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 133-156

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.54203

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M. Darvish, the contemporary poet of resistance in Palestinian, has written poems, similar to Persian poets, in “sepid” and “Azad” poems, with freedom from the ... Read More

Realism Fantasy in the Literature of the Palestinian Child (Narratives: "I and Jumana," "Maryam's Words" and "Dreams of the Skinny Boy” by Mahmoud Shakir, for example)

Ezzat Molla Ebrahimi; Zahra Fazeli

Volume 14, Issue 4 , January 2023, , Pages 133-151

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.354569.612641

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Children’s literature is characterized by its orientation to a gradual age stage, as it writes language, style and logic that commensurate with the abilities and perceptions of ... Read More

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