contemporary poets have allocated a great share in quranic intertextuality to themselves. one of these poets is the palestinian one called fadavi toqan who has used the quranic concepts and vocabulary in order to express social and political problems as well as his own pains and suffers. in the present article the poet has studied all three kinds of pun by bringing examples.

Palestinian youth is challenged by multiple discourses in the process of constitution of its identity. This discursive multiplicity, characteristic of contemporary global societies, is confronted with personal life experiences, giving meaning to primarily nebulous affective impacts in the social environment. Starting from a semiotic–cultural perspective in cultural psychology one can establish ...

all along history, the art and society always have interplayed. literary works especially novel are rooted in contemporary society and tell us about social, political, cultural and historical issues of a society. a realistic novel may reflect realities of its time like a mirror. the sociology of literature is aimed to explain the links between society and literature and clarifying the quality o...

abdol karim al karami – called abu salma – is one of the famous palestinian poets and arabic contemporary avant – garde. he loves women's beauty and explains the prettiness by his own method. the poet combines kindness between consummation and separation, reality and dream in general. the present article follows up the aesthetics aspects in women description and studies his descriptions in...

A Look at Contemporary Persian Poetry, Currents in Persian Poetry in 20th Century This book is a historical survey of literature though the writer has tried to distance himself from ancient approaches and to apply a modern look of analysis, critique and stylistics. In the first chapter the methodology is discussed followed by the second chapter which talks of text and metatext and the relation...

in the eyes of contemporary palestinian poets the occupied land illustrates a sweetheart boasting an endless number of ravishing names. the poet gets their way through to their sweetheart (homeland) by a figment of their imagination and takes a specific and different look at it. after the start of hardships in palestine and its occupation at the pinnacle of crises, the “woman” was looked at as ...

Ian McEwan, a respected contemporary British writer, sometimes uses neurological and psychiatric patients as main characters of his stories. In his recent novels one can find beautiful descriptions of patients with Huntington's disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, de Clerambault syndrome and also details about some neurosurgical procedures.