the revolution of 1919 and its positive and negative results reflex on the story’s form and subject. in this period, people were interested to draw events and reflect political and social events of society in their works. they want no more to see their desired world in phantom and dream, because their information to problems of society had increased and they had acquired sufficient statement ab...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

abd al - salam al-’ujayli is a syrian physician, literary man and novelist. by his specific style and personal method in expression and description, al-’ujayli is a link between leading authors of thirty and forty decades of twenty century on one hand, and innovators of fifty and sixty decades on the other hand. his literary works are a combination of abilities of these two generations. his sty...

this article reflects the mythical story of “kaveh and zahak” from ferdowsi’s shahnameh in the “rajol-e siāsi” short story, written by sayyed mohammad jamalzadeh in his “yeki bood-yeki nabood” (“once upon a time”) collection, and discusses the similarities of the two. the foundation of the “kaveh and zahak” tale is the eternal battle between “good and evil” and, as the greatest and the most pal...

This article is a comparative study of similar experiences in the American short story collection, Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War edited by Roy Scranton and Matt Ghalagher and the Persian short story collection, A Vital Killing by Ahmad Dehghan as they belong to two different languages, different cultures, and different worldviews. It is an exploration of an overwhelmed psycho...

ghada al-saman has been affected in her short story:” a man in the alley” by the theory of some feminist writers like simone de beauvoir. using the existentialistic- feministic theory of de beauvoir,she tried to highlight the idea of women’s oppression through cultures during time long before its explanation by de beauvoir. this short story depicts her endeavor for deconstructing the values of ...

the study investigates to give an analysis of literary text through a contrastive analysis of some linguistic form frequencies in the texts. three short stories , two english short stories by ernest hemingway and bruce holland rogers and a persian short story by sadeq choubak, have been analyzed for this paper. the study indicates that, by contrasting some linguistic elements, one can describe ...