tawfigh al-hakim is a contemporary egyptian playwright who is known as the father of arabic playwriting. he felt the need to search about the human character and its dimensions, so, this issue, has been the major them in his plays. through benefiting from humanistic theories in some western literary and philosophical schools, he has combined them with religious issues and eastern mythology to i...

Although literature and humor are two distinct areas, they complete each other. Indeed, this paper aims to examine the use of as a tool resistance subversion in contemporary Middle Eastern fiction Egyptian novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s al-Fāʿil (2008) Luṣūṣ mutaqāʿidūn (2002). In particular, strives re-evaluate main elements such satire, puns quibbles. It highlights their on thematic, stylistic...

the comparison of arabic literature and persian literature is the comparison between two similar literatures though the impact of persian literature on arabic literature is more profound. hossein mojib almesri, the poet under discussion in this paper has been influenced by persian literature specifically in two areas: symbolism and poetic forms. this paper is an attempt to discuss cultural inte...

the present research which falls in the field of comparative literature and is based on the french school aims to study and compare the social poetry of ahmad shamlou, a renowned contemporary iranian poet, and bertolt brescht, a german poet, writer and theorist's famous theater. the two poets looked at social issues through a human perspective and simple language which is reflected in thei...

human as the superior of the creature was more important for pre-socrates, but by emerging socrates this remark become pale because he pointed to be average of human's powers. after many decades, some grand-phipspher such as kierkegaard, nietzsche, martin heidegger and jean-paul sartre entered and they have taken attention to human and established existentialism.this academy spoke about hu...

ahmad showqi is one of the outstanding contemporary poets and had such an important state among the poets who were called poet laureate. quran played as a spring which he enjoyed it a lot for his poetry. by studying his poetry we come to conclusion that holy quran had a significant effect on showqi’s poetry and he had used its vocabulary and semantics in all his poetry. doomsday and its images ...

nader nezam tehrani is one of the contemporary poets whose poetries have been recently published. his poems involve various subjects and concepts such as quran and hadith which can be seen implicitly in his works by the aid of allusions and adaptations. humanism is another concept used in his works and has been utilized in his politic sonnets; the nature and the dreams are the main characterist...

[The] assimilation of [the poet] to another, either by the use of voice or gesture, is the imitation of the person whose character he assumes[.] [...] Then in this case the narrative of the poet may be said to proceed by way of imitation[.] [...] Or, if the poet everywhere appears and never conceals himself, then again the imitation is dropped, and his poetry becomes simple narration. (Book III...

in his collection north, heaney mythologizes the contemporary history of the people of northern ireland through conflating the mythological history of the people of ireland, with the 1960s troubles in northern ireland. used by the modernist poets, the method of representing the contemporary history through recourse to mythology have been also favored by poets who have experienced colonial and p...