a study of satire and humor techniques in hooshang moradi kermani's works       s. hesampour*           j. dehghanian**         s. khavari***                                 shiraz university          khalij fars university of boushehr   satire has existed side by side with other literary techniques such as humor and lampoon in persian literature for many centuries. hooshang moradi kermani...

ahmad akbarpour (1970) is an iranian writer of children’s and young adults’ fiction who has been highly influential in the domain of iranian modern children’s literature due to his postmodern narrative style. he has published many novels in which there always exists an interesting relationship between the writer and the characters. the issues of power and empowerment play a very important role ...

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

fantasy and fantasizing based on shahnameh in children's and young adults' literature     dr. m. pourkhaleqi                         m. jalali ferdowsi university [email protected]     abstract fantasy is one of the practical genres in children and young adult's literature. the most important aspect of this genre is its being imaginative and impossible to happen in the real world. ...

this dissertation has six chapter and tree appendices. chapter 1 introduces the thesis proposal including description of problem, key questions, hypothesis, backgrounds and review of literature, research objectives, methodology and theoretical concepts (key terms) taken the literature and facilitate an understanding of national security, national interest and turkish- israeli relations concepts...

characterization and personification are two important components in the fictional works for children and young adults and due to their prime importance, writers pay much attention to the selection and performance of fictional characters of their works. they are also of great importance in the adaptation of ancient literary texts so that the characters are the means of expressing the writers’ t...