a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

the literature of sufism is a magnificent part of the persian literature which consists of awakening purports and topics about the love of free. but because of the sequestered lives of a great many sufies, this reality is in a state of neglect. in this article , the author has tried to mention this reality that sufism litreture is an awakening litreture and at the same time, has analyzed the es...

Раскрываются философско-лингвистические основания языковой игры. В отличие от распространенных представлений о том, что языковая игра является средством создания юмористического эффекта и придания тексту экспрессивности, показывается, телеология игры состоит в переформатировании когнитивной картины мира на основе процедур рефрейминга. The article deals with the linguistic and philosophical back...

poets use different artistic forms, such as allegory and symbol to express their thoughts in educational and mystic works. in particular, this paper is to investigate the artistic images and symbols made with the theme of “child” and “childhood” in these works. not only there are some thoughts about child training in educational and mystic poems, but each of his growth stages, up to his adultho...

ferdowsi’s shāhnāma has a monotheistic context and its narrative deep structure has been demythologized throughout history at religious, ritual and mythic levels. however, an analytical approach can spot traces of the ancient beliefs reflected in the symbolic implications of the narratives as well as the language and imagery of the shāhnāma. the first line in the preface of the shāhnāma, “in th...

Lao-Zhuang thought and the Laozi in particular is frequently interpreted as providing a critique of dominant social values its time. In English language literature, this often entails utilizing thinkers from Western tradition philosophic Kant onwards, thereby obscuring critical methods unique to text itself. Chinese on other hand, rarely uses semantics which prevents contributing own voice disc...

nearer to the race of apes" (Ueber die korperliche Verschiedenheit des Negers vom Europaer, 1785, pp. 77-8). Other parts of Soemmerring's work benefited from the unique opportunities for zootomy that he had through Friedrich's menagerie. The anatomical preparation of an elephant from there put Soemmerring (in this respect) on a par with contemporary luminaries, such as Camper and John Hunter, w...