Literature, in addition to its aesthetic and artistic aspects, has always been a reflection of social and cultural realities and characteristics of its respective era and society. Sociological criticism is a relatively modern method in literary criticism. The method studies the structure and content of literary works and their relation to the structures and evolutions of the societies where the...

one of the most important reasons for the success of literary figure is his sufficient use of story elements such as characterization, plot, point of view, symbols. this study critically analyses the different literary elements in naguib mahfouz’s famous collection of short stories, “the infamous house” consisting of 18 stories.  at first, we offer a definition of the short story as a genre and...

The long superficial engagement of literary scholars with the cartographic lexicon (under the label of literary ‘spatial turn’) has led to a need for a ‘recartographization’ of the field. This tendency, however, still remains primarily embedded within analytical (‘cartography of literature’) or critical (‘critical literary cartography’) approaches, and fails to engage the recent development of ...