abstract: mystic literature (irfān) in general and sufi literature in particular has always been alluring to the scholars interestingly working in different fields from literary, religious, philosophical, historical to other fields which may have little in common. among sufi theologians, farid ud-din attar neishabouri is the one whom no one has ever been able to surpass in creating works which ...

accessing the secondary or implied meaning of the text is one of the most important aims of research in the field of literature because the literariness of the text arises from this kind of meaning.  implied meaning is expressed through language and various elements related to the literary genre, and would be referred to as the text’s “language.” in order to investigate the language of short st...

BACKGROUND Medical news that appears on newspaper front pages is intended to reach a wide audience, but how this type of medical news is prepared and distributed has not been systematically researched. We thus quantified the level of visibility achieved by front-page medical stories in the United States and analyzed their news sources. METHODOLOGY Using the online resource Newseum, we investi...

abd allah b.sa’d, believed in islam and for a short time recorded divine revelations; but then he lost his faith. historical studies prove that his apostasy has no relation to writing celestial words. but story-writers who often lack an analytical mind, perhaps credulously or tendentiously connect his blaspheme to the act of recording sacred verses. these unfounded stories have entered history ...

This study, which was conducted by two researchers, had the objective of analyzing intertextuality short story literary works "Only Cue" Dewi Lestari and "Love" Guy De Maupassant. The research using a qualitative descriptive method with content analysis literature study. data in this study were obtained from relevant to problem or topic under conducting studies several sources, for example jour...

archetype is a jung's term for the contents of the collective unconscious; the instinctive thoughts which organize human's experiences according to predetermined innate patterns.  these ancient images appearance in various forms over time including myths and stories, as jung describes myths and fairy tales as the reflection of archetypes. the obvious examples of these archetypes in pe...

the social situation and the cultural requirements of the early 1970s became the groundwork of minimalism which gradually appeared in different fields of art and literature. the short story is one of the most prominent instances of such approach in narrative literature. although, many believe that the root of this gender is in western literature, but many of the authors in east, especially the ...