Only a few attempts have so far been made at exploring the process of metaphor production, although a large number of studies have addressed metaphor comprehension. Therefore, in this paper, we address the problem of how people generate metaphors or identify an apt vehicle for a given topic of metaphors. Specifically, we examine how the process and product of metaphor production differ between ...

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...

this essay is to study the rhetoric and stylistic features of hafiz's rubaiyat. although this literary form has not a major contribution in divan of hafiz in comparison to his lyrics, but it deserves to get more attention, because this famous poet has blown part of his spirit and inner feelings into its existence. assuming the validity of this attribution, it has been tried to analyze hafi...

This paper proposes a computational system of narrative discourse generation and its implementation. In the system, Genette’s discourse theory is reconstructed as discourse techniques which transform the tree structure for a story into discourse structures. Also, we introduce Jauss’s reception theory to construct the control mechanism, which continues discourse generation through generation cyc...

It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness" has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive science has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical stud...

The author of the article focuses on heteronymous lyrics great Portuguese poet F. Pessoa. differences between orthonymic and heteronymic Pessoa are explained with emergence heteronymy in his poetry investigated. reduces by to poems Alberto Caeiro da Silva, Ricardo Reis Álvaro de Campos considers main features their lyrics. Along way, literary movements invented – paulism, intersectionism sensat...