according to bourdieu’s cultural theory, the author’s trajectory reflects the dialectical relationship between his or her habitus and conditions of the literary field in a given historical situation. habitus is dialectically tied to the field and constructed with different capitals. in an author’s habitus, cultural capital plays the main role as the most significant capital. the field of litera...

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

The question and the problem of EQUIVALENCE is not simply a formal and linguistic issue, but a cultural, ideological and even “political” one, and the translator has to become a “communicator”, and not simply the bringer of a “linguistic” uni tinto another “linguistic” unti . Basil HATIM and IAN MASON in The Translator as Communicaton (1997) argue that the division of the subject into literary ...

The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social scie...

This article seeks to contribute to contemporary discussions on the workings of culturalmemory and examines in particular theway inwhich literary texts can function as a social framework for memory.Through a detailed study of the genesis, composition, and long-term reception of Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1982 [1818]), I argue that literary texts play a variety of roles in the forma...

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 was specifi...

searching about nationalism in dramatic literature of iran, cause us to consider two special eras in the one hundred and fifty year old dramatic history of iran: first pahlavi and the time of war between iran and iraq which has allocated a lot of artistic works under the name of defa’e moghadas to itself. but the main aspect of this research is introducing and surveying sho’bie movement – the f...