WILLIAM R. PAULSON, Enlightenment, Romanticism and the blind in France, Princeton University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix, 259, £21.00. William Paulson has produced an odd sandwich of a book. It opens with an off-putting 'Introduction' which takes many words to inform us, yet again, how the approach to discourse analysis developed by Michel Foucault transcended the blindness of the traditional 'his...

andré chénier (1762-1794) is the greatest and the best known french poet of the 18th century. he is famous especially for his courageous opposition to the power of the terror in the early years of the french revolution which caused finally his death by guillotine. the study of his poetical works can clarify the literary transition between neoclassicism and romanticism. this paper, by describing...

the contemporary persian and arabic literature have an old relationship and in this age and the same relationship is also said about city poetry domain .seemingly the appearance of new city songs in world literature including persian and arabic literature is affected by western literature. the present research compares sohrab sepehri ‘s city songs in persian literature and ahmad abd al- mo’ti h...