social changes and considering people’s needs are seen as the most important issues in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the writers of this article have considered the views of western and iranian critics to study the function of the addressee in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the use of such a study is that the writers have found and analyzed many soci...

The main argument of this monograph,* if I understand it rightly (something its rather cloudy writing makes me uncertain of), is that the body of works often (and traditionally) grouped together under the rubric ‘ancient literary criticism’ should be understood not as contributions to aesthetics or criticism of literature as these terms are commonly understood today but rather as political inte...

one of the important subjects of comparative literature_ in french school_ is studying common contents between literature of different languages and separating literati’s initiatives and borrowing from other authors in the same or another language by them. with this aspect. using analytic – comparative metod, this study compares poems of abu tayyib al-muttanabbi_ as one of the most impressive a...

the development of the persian poetry in the indian subcontinent is investigated in this paper. it is emphasized that the persian literature and language was developing in india along with the persian literature and language in iran. any transition of any nature occurring in iran left its impact on even remote lands, making the ground for khorasani, azarbayejani and araghi styles flourish in in...

arabic and persian poems have numerous common points and poets of these two languages share the  same point in style, subject, structure and music of poetry. mahdi akhavan thaleth, famous iranian poet, and boland al-heidari, well-known iraqi poet,  are among poets who have many similarities in their works. as an example, there are some conceptual and verbal  similarities between qasedak and sae...

We apply topic modeling to classifying the genre of Ghazal, a form common in Persian poetry. We show that a classifier based on automatically-generated topics exposes important information with only a small performance penalty: the top discriminative topics can be manually aligned with themes prevalent in the associated genres, as identified by scholars of literature. We also weigh in on a long...