drawing upon some teachings of modern literary criticism and michail bakhtin’s notion of polyphony, the article tries to compare selected iranian contemporary literary and dramatic texts. polyphony, as the potential capacity of a text to produce and reproduce meaning, gives the reader the chance of analyzing the dialogical and narrative patterns of iranian novels and dramas in a new perception....

the nemesis is of an antiquity among human society but its rules differ from the divine rules; because the human society has punished the convict without any special rule in past. in many cases there was not any relationship between the punishment and the crime. the divine religions had enacted special rules in order to make a relation between the punishment and the crime. the main goal of neme...

Encoding meaningful semantic relationships in literary texts is almost as difficult defining and identifying them. Defining the types components of that can be extracted from a quite challenging task because literature full implicit oblique messages references. Subsequently, encoding even more often relations do not have neither clear nor standard linguistic form usually they overlap each other...

Title of Document: HACKING LITERATURE: READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron Dinin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Martha Nell Smith, Department of English Evangelists of the digital age, in the immediacy of its adolescence, often describe digital technologies as “revolutionary” (e.g. “the digital revolution”) and as having a world-changing impact on human cultural inte...

Memories in literary texts reveal past events which complete the itinerary of a character throughout the book. Whether they are exposed from the point of view of that character or from the perspective of the other characters joining the action, the memories bring novelties about the distant or the recent past to the actual action This explorative study intends to identify memories, with an ulte...