W hen Melanie Hundley, on behalf of the new editors of The ALAN Review—Steven Bickmore, Melanie Hundley, and Jacqueline Bach—asked us (Anna and Sean) to write a column for their first issue of the The ALAN Review on the theme, “Young Adult Literature Gaining Stature at the High School,” we responded with a resounding “Yes!” Anna’s work in promoting the literary qualities of young adult literatu...

the ode “buka'iyya ila shams haziran” is considered as one of the critical and extreme poems of abd al-wahhab al-bayati, the significant contemporary arab literary figure (1999-1926). applying a simple language which is also vague in some aspects, the poem is allocated to presenting social and political conditions of arab countries and analyzing the reasons associated with 1967 june defeat. as ...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...

this paper tends to investigate immorality written by andre gide, famous french writer of the 20th century. this research studies imagines of soil element in the immorality which is seen frequently in reverie of characters in this book. we show how author’s point of view and imagination result in speculations subject to this element, creating images to show internal spiritualities of characters...

asadi’s shahnameh is a great epic consisting of twenty-four thousand distiches and is attributed to asadi or another poet of the same nickname. this work was created in the same line of development as ferdowsi’s shahnameh. the main theme is the old campaign of soleymān to iran to confront with rostam and keykhosrow and to repeat the pattern of rostam’s battles with his children in a state of an...