Arabic Literature

Language is considered as one of the outstanding interactive means of human beings to transmit mental concepts. The analysis this infinite collection of symbols that are manifested ... Read More Language is considered as one of the outstanding interactive means of human beings to transmit mental concepts. The analysis this infinite collection of symbols that are manifested in the form of words is one of the concerns in literature and linguistics. Cognitive semantics is one of the approaches dealing with language and can be used to find out a reliable relation between language, outside experiences, thoughts, and social experiences. Comprehending and analyzing the application of pictorial schemes is one of the fundamental issues in cognitive semantics. Through such an approach, we can arrive at a valid interpretation of the abstract concepts of the language of a text and at an understanding of the cognitive structure the writer of that text. This research tries to find out the frequency and application of pictorial schemes in Sohran Sepehri and Khalil Hawi’s poetry. Most of Sepehri’s poetry is a combination of different beliefs in Islamic mysticism and Eastern religions like Buddhism, which are juxtaposed in the most harmonious way. His verses can be considered as mysticism expressed in today’s language. Khalil Hawi’s verses also manifest different beliefs of Western and Eastern philosophy. His poems not only incorporate issues and conflicts of his country, but describe mental concepts which are difficult to comprehend. This research seeks to determine what the role of pictorial schemes in the poems of these poets is, and how their theoretical concepts affect the frequency and application of the pictorial schemes. The findings show that Sepehri’s practice of painting, the mystical concepts of his poems, and his poetical loneliness cause “body schemes” to have the most frequency in his verses. On the other hand, because of the thought disorder and the melancholy governing Khalil Hawi’s verses, “power schemes,” all of which express failure in the social activities, are frequently seen in his poetry.

Research Paper

A Stylistic Study of the Discourse-Based Constituents in Amal Donqol’s Poem “A Special Interview with Noah’s Son”

Azaadeh Ghaderi; Seyed Hosein Seyedi; Bahar Seddighi

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 19-38

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.262952.611949

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Identified as a social process, language is used for the creation of meaning and bears ideological connotations across its different layers, while it is employed through interactions ... Read More Identified as a social process, language is used for the creation of meaning and bears ideological connotations across its different layers, while it is employed through interactions with power relations. Poetic language serves as a fertile ground for linguistic and stylistic analyses. Given that stylistics is the study of methods with which meaning is created in literature and other texts through language, studying the function of linguistic patterns is an efficient method for stylistic analysis. Based on critical discourse analysis, discourse semiology, and functional linguistics, this study undertakes the stylistic analysis of Amal Donqol’s “A Special Interview with Noah’s Son.” It argues that the poet has taken up poetic discourse as a social weapon, has selected microlayers of “lexicon,” “syntax,” and “rhetoric” in association with the macrolayers of “ideology,” “power,” and “situational context,” and has personified the infrastructures, in order to tackle the political-economic crisis resulting from the Camp David Accords. The stylistic indicators of his poetry (diction, marked syntactical structures, and rhetorical figures) are discourse-oriented structures that bear ideological content, and according to power relations, lead to the highlighting of the discourse of the friend and the marginalization of that of the foe. Donqol’s attitude towards sociopolitical issues of his country is reflected in his stylistic features, such as choice of words as social signifiers, social indexing, modality in syntactic structures, grammatical voice of the text, along with rhetorical figures such as metaphor, allegory, symbolism, derision and repetition. And these are utilized to express the ideology of resistance against enemies and rejection of the current situation of Egypt and fighting against the policies of the then ruler, Anwar Sadat. Accordingly, this poem is a sociopolitical reading; its poetic language serves as a social action, and its text both makes and is made of social relationships, wherein the poet, considering his own ideology and that of the ruling power, portrays his beliefs by selecting different styles of expression.

Research Paper

The Reflection of Folk Beliefs in the Poetry of Mutanabbi

Hadis Sheikh Asadi; Sadegh Sayyahi; Hasan Dadkhah Tehrani

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 39-58

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.233517.611721

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Folk beliefs are among the most important elements of imagery in poetry. Folklore is like a mirror which reflects the spiritual characteristics of a nation and their background through ... Read More

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A Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Characters and Beliefs in the Novel Al-Nahayat by Abdul Rahman Munif

Naeem Amouri; Zahra Ahmadyan; Abbas Yadollahi Farsani; Yadollah Zargar

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 59-79

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.257558.611904

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It has been more than a century since psychological analysis was considered as a science. Freud laid the foundations of psychoanalysis and his students developed this knowledge. Considering ... Read More

Research Paper

A Comparison between Samih al-Qasim and Adonis’s Readings of the Greek Myth of Ulysses

Ali Najafi Ivaki; Bahrali Rezaei

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 81-100

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.277019.612038

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One of the main features of contemporary Arabic poetry is its use of mythology to express social concepts and depict socio-political heterogeneity. Greek mythology is one of the best ... Read More

Research Paper

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

Abstract

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

Research Paper

Locales and Their Implications in the Poetry of Yahya al-Samawi

Mehdi Shahrokh; Hamideh Faghih Abdolahi

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 121-142

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.263664.611956

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Locale is one of the most important elements of poetry. In resistance literature, places have different semantic functions, depending on the emotions of the writer towards those places. ... Read More

Research Paper

A Comparative Study of the Myth of “Zoroaster” in the Poetry of Persian and Arab Poets

MohamadHassan Amraei

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 143-165

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.141126.611404

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Modern and ancient Persian and Arab poets, due to the different literary atmosphere of their works and their different personal tastes, have adopted different approaches to the myth ... Read More

Research Paper

Book Review: Reviewing the Book Taj by Jahez

Vahid Sabzianpoor; Vajihe Soroush

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2021, Pages 167-184

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.229287.611675

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Jahez is one of the Arab writers who in his works paid special attention to Iranians, Iranian customs, and the Sassanid kings in such a way that it can be easily understood that Iranian ... Read More

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The Function of the Pictorial Schemes in Sohrab Sepehri and Khalil Hawi’s Poetry (Based on Cognitive Semantics)

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A Stylistic Study of the Discourse-Based Constituents in Amal Donqol’s Poem “A Special Interview with Noah’s Son”

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The Reflection of Folk Beliefs in the Poetry of Mutanabbi

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A Psychoanalytic Analysis of the Characters and Beliefs in the Novel Al-Nahayat by Abdul Rahman Munif

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A Comparison between Samih al-Qasim and Adonis’s Readings of the Greek Myth of Ulysses

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

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Locales and Their Implications in the Poetry of Yahya al-Samawi

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A Comparative Study of the Myth of “Zoroaster” in the Poetry of Persian and Arab Poets

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Book Review: Reviewing the Book Taj by Jahez

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