by baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. in that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. however, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...

This paper describes a method based on morphological analysis of words for a Persian Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging system. This is a main part of a process for expanding a large Persian corpus called Peyekare (or Textual Corpus of Persian Language). Peykare is arranged into two parts: annotated and unannotated parts. We use the annotated part in order to create an automatic morphological analyze...

For centuries, storytellers and scops recited epics and national, tribal, historical, and religious stories for people, through musical speeches. Some of these narrators wrote down what they recited, and some others dictated them for scribes to be recorded. Some kings and lords also had scops in their courts to recite the stories to scribes. One of the old, oral stories of Persian literature th...

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

political novel is one of the kinds of persian literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  these types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (cda) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

To distinguish between human user and computer program to enhance security, a popular test called CAPTCHA is used on Web. CAPTCHA has an important role in preventing Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks in computer networks. There are many different types of CAPTCHA in different languages. Due to the expansion of Persian-language and documents on internet, creating a suitable Persian CAPTCHA seems t...

magical realism is a new method in fiction. in this method the author uses the technique of magic and fantasy that mixed with reality. najib mahfouz and gholam hussein saedi are the pioneers of this style.one thousand and one nights and mourners of bayal are examples of magical realism method. this paper attempts to examine these stories. magic and fantasy, myth and the duality of the two stori...