POETRY AS A REPRESENTATION OF TURKISH IDENTITY

Analysis of components of national identity in constitutional period poetry

One of the main areas of socialization is the strengthening and reproduction of national identity; it is felt more urgent in developing societies than in other societies due to the ongoing political, social and cultural developments. In Iran, attention was paid to national identity simultaneously with the acquaintance of Iranians with the manifestations of Western culture. Meanwhile, poets and ...

modernist poetics as reflected in the poetry of selected modernist poets

فن شعر (poetics) که پیش از این به معنای مطالعه ی شعر و شیوه های آن بود در قرن بیستم در مفهوم گسترده به نظریه ی ادبی و مشخصه هایی که سبب پیدایش ادبیات است، اطلاق می شود. نوگرایی (modernism) بیش از آنکه از نقطه نظر زمانی دارای اهمیت باشد، گویای زمینه های فکری و اجتماعی است که تحولاتی بنیادین را در هنر و ادبیات رقم زد. تی. اس. الیوت، تی. ئی. هولم و ازرا پاوند از مهمترین نظریه پردازان نوگرایی هستند...

Lyric Poetry as Society

Iran National Identity in Malak –o – Shoara Bahar`s poetry

Mohammad – Taqi Bahar had been living in a historical period of Iran in which religious, geographical boundaries, culture and Iran`s sovereignty were exposed to numerous threats. Indeed, he, as a pious patriot, had a complete knowledge about these issues and attentively took into consideration the national identity phenomenon in his books and poets. They mostly consists the historical and po...

Spatial metaphor and expressions of identity in sign language poetry

Sign languages are visual languages. Signers place signs in space to represent both concrete and abstract meaning, drawing on literal and metaphorical uses of space. This paper considers the ways that four sign language poems use space metaphorically in the exploration of the poets’ identities as Deaf people. Signs placed across the sagittal, vertical and transverse axes are used to signal diff...