Sound and Sense in Classical Arabic Poetry. By Geert Jan van Gelder. Arabische Studien, vol. 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. xv + 399. €78.

defamiliarize or deviation is one of the foundational pillar to studies of contemporary linguistics and the purpose of it is deviation from the norm logical and natural and going beyond the common language, so stylistic and aesthetic purposes language appear in this manner and this (unfamiliarity) can create  intellectual engagement in mind of the reader and make an impression on his. ghada al-...

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, particularly in west bank (of jordan river) and gaza strip. thence, palestinians never saw political tranquility, stability, and equilibrium. consequently, contemporary poetry was also affected by such chaotic circ...

viability of verse is interrelated to its multiple layer nature and legibility. being affected by western poetry and criticism in the middle of 20th century, this trend entered arabic contemporary verse into a new stage and made it as a field for activity of national and international myths. badr shakir al- siab was one of premier innovative arabic poets that he has highly benefitted from myste...

Yaghma, The literary magazine in the field of poetry, started its activity with the aim of preserving ancient achievements and countering every kind of unapproved innovations and novelty. This was in spite of the fact that many years had passed since the beginning of modern poetry and there have emerged famous figures in Nimaei poetry. The present article intends to see how much Yaghma was succ...

The subject of our research in this paper are aspects religious spirituality contemporary Serbian poetry. First, we give an overview poetic, ideological and cultural characteristics poetic production the last three decades, with certain value categorizations. We then direct attention to individual poetics poets born seventies eighties, whose poetry has a proven presence Christian inspiration. O...

We describe the Story Intention Graph, a set of discourse relations designed to represent aspects of narrative. Compared to prior models, ours is a novel synthesis of the notions of goal, plan, intention, outcome, affect and time that is amenable to corpus annotation. We describe a collection project, DramaBank, which includes encodings of texts ranging from small fables to epic poetry and cont...