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  1 - Study of the Influence of La Fontaine on Showqi’s Fables
  Mohammad Javad Fallahi Houshang Razmdideh Jamshid Baqerzadeh
  Jean de La Fontaine – the French poet and author – is one of the most effective literal characters in the world in his era. The literary critics and the researchers know him as one of the greatest fable writers in the world with the aim of educational and in More

  Jean de La Fontaine – the French poet and author – is one of the most effective literal characters in the world in his era. The literary critics and the researchers know him as one of the greatest fable writers in the world with the aim of educational and instructive works. Ahmad Showqi – the Arab behaviorist poet – who owns many educational and instructive works, is known as a brilliant poet. His Divan contains the fables which were created with educational aims for people, to transmit the behaviors, patriotism and protecting the social values. The present article studies some of these two literary men’s fables. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Aspects of Proverbs in Persian Literature
  Yaghoob Poor Najaf Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini
  A majority of books and writing translated from Persian literature include Persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. These books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from Persian and are known as “books of advice&rdq More

  A majority of books and writing translated from Persian literature include Persian proverbs among which wisdom and advice are of high importance. These books, as we know, are translated pieces of advice and wisdom from Persian and are known as “books of advice”. This paper aims at showing that these books are among the basic principles of Persian literature.  Having studied historical and literary facts of the past, and referring to contemporary materials and resources, it is revealed that Persian people have played a significant role in Arab literature and enriched it using their knowledge and findings.  Reasons for this claim are the genius and great authors in different fields of science in the Arab world, and that Arabic has so been spread in Persian lands which is widely used in poems as well as science. Persian language and literature, however, has to a great extent been influenced by Arabic. Manuscript profile
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  3 - The First steps of the emergence of Comparative Literature in Arabic Literature
  Ali Saberi
  Cosmopolitanism, Romantic Movement, the development and extension of literature through communication devices and advancement of publishing technology were the sources of emergence of comparative literature.The present article studies the attempts of Arab literary men i More

  Cosmopolitanism, Romantic Movement, the development and extension of literature through communication devices and advancement of publishing technology were the sources of emergence of comparative literature.The present article studies the attempts of Arab literary men in this field after it was introduced into Arabic literature. Manuscript profile
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  4 - A Comparative Study of Romanticism in the Poetry of Nimayoushij and Khalil Motran
  Seyyede Nasrin Ebadian Zahra Soleymani
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  5 - A Semiotic Study of the Ode Kalimāt li al-Vatan (Words for fatherland) by Tawfiq Ziād on Peirce Theory
  Ali Pirani Abdollah Hosseini Hossein Abavisani Habibeh Zarei
  The poems of Tawfiq Ziād are blended with signs and symbols that multiplied the charism of resistance poems, and their emotional feeling have influences on the addressees. The signs in Tawfiq’s poems are accompanied by the images of fatherland love that can convey More

  The poems of Tawfiq Ziād are blended with signs and symbols that multiplied the charism of resistance poems, and their emotional feeling have influences on the addressees. The signs in Tawfiq’s poems are accompanied by the images of fatherland love that can convey the main message of the poem. Applying Peirce's semiotic model in the criticism of resistance poems in addition to analysis and decoding these poems, can be effective in understanding the thoughts of this great poet. So, the present article tries to analyze in an analytic-descriptive method the characteristics of the ode Kalimāt li al-Vatan (Words for fatherland) by Tawfiq Ziād from semiotic approach based on Pierce theory that is on the triad of icon, index and symbol basis. This article intends to make clear that what sort of aesthetic signs are used by Tawfiq Ziād, the contemporary Palestinian poet, and how he used aesthetic signs to influence the addressees, as well as to reveal how we can reach hidden aspects of the poet's thoughts in using signs and codes in the light of semiotic, interpretative and semantic criticisms. This article shows that Pierce semiotic theory is an appropriate pattern for research in modern poems and is more powerful than the traditional rhetorics in terms of interpretation. Furthermore, due to the nature and type of resistance poems that are composed in the atmosphere of tyranny and suffocation, their signs are implicit and mysterious. In this ode the symbolic signs are more than iconic signs and indces.  Manuscript profile
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  6 - The Study of the Motives of pessimism Towards Raven in Persian and Arabic Literature
  Yahya Marouf
     Phenomenon of pessimism  towards crow has existed from  hundreds of years ago in the literature: Persian and Arabic. Every Farsi or Arabic poet has spoken about raven and has argued the reason for devastation and destruction perdition. Without rep More

     Phenomenon of pessimism  towards crow has existed from  hundreds of years ago in the literature: Persian and Arabic. Every Farsi or Arabic poet has spoken about raven and has argued the reason for devastation and destruction perdition. Without repeating that the motives of pessimism to  crow are multi, this article refers to the most important motives of  crow pessimism in the literature: Persian and Arabic, according to the following addresses: 1.Myths and folk traditions. 2. People's hatred  of black color. 3. Poetic stories. 4. Proverbs newly industrialized. 5.Hadith attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny 6. The use of crow in the poetic arts. 7. Linguistic derivation of the word crow.8. Tradition of the fathers. 9. Reliance on interpretations of dreams. 10. Misperceptions about the Book of Genesis in the Bible. This article seeks to answer the following questions: 1.What are the reasons for pessimism and the appearance of crow myth around him in the Arab and Persian literature? 2. Is pessimism to raven due to its religious character or not? 3. Is it for pessimism fact, or is it just words of  psychological emissions? 4.Why God sent the crow to teach the sons of Adam bury their dead and did not send another bird to be the first teacher to humans? Manuscript profile
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  7 - Instances of Cultural Exchange between Arab and Western Literature
  Ali Saberi
  Literary interactions, as a means of cultural exchange, were established between the Arab and Western writers and poets in two different steps; the first step was embracing of the literary works of oriental writers and poets in the West; such works as a Thousand and One More

  Literary interactions, as a means of cultural exchange, were established between the Arab and Western writers and poets in two different steps; the first step was embracing of the literary works of oriental writers and poets in the West; such works as a Thousand and One Nights, Panchatantra, Maqamah, and musical structure of Arab poem were imitated in the West, thereby forming a bridge between Eastern and Western literature. And the second stage was imitation of Western literature by Arab writers, which resulted in the emergence of new literary genres in Arab literature; playwriting, epic poetry, short story, and modernist poetry, as well as modern literary schools that were unprecedented in the Arab literature so became popular among Arab literary writers. Such cultural interaction has always resulted in development and flourishing of literature of different nations in the world, so much so that the world literature can be said to be the product of a process of ongoing exchange between different nations. Artistic interactions have long been one of the means to establish cultural exchange between different nations; of arts, literature, as a branch of verbal art, has plays a significant role in such an auspicious interaction. It is obvious that flourishing of world literature and cultural richness of the nations is indebted to such beautiful human art. Therefore, this paper tries to study the cultural interactions between Western and Arab literature in two steps: effect of Arab literature on Western literature and vice versa with a view to different literary genres. Although there were many works by writers and criticisms that were relevant to this study, the focus here was on those effects in literary works that are considered as innovation in the influenced literature, but as imitation from perspective of the influencing literature. However, such influence can be a cultural exchange, which can fertilize the influenced literature. In this paper, effects of Arab literature on Western and vice versa are studied in two steps. Manuscript profile