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  1 - The Misogyny-Philogyny Paradox (A Comparative Study of Woman in One Thousand and One Nights and The Canterbury Tales)
  Nozhat Noohi
  The position and the role of women in society, and the altered positive and negative attitudes towards them had frequently been reflected in all types of literature -- classic and modern, Eastern and Western. Nowadays by the expansion of female-oriented propensities lik More

  The position and the role of women in society, and the altered positive and negative attitudes towards them had frequently been reflected in all types of literature -- classic and modern, Eastern and Western. Nowadays by the expansion of female-oriented propensities like Feminism and its crossing the borders of literature, studies and researches on unilateral and even misogynist attitudes of some authors towards women have also been found urgent and necessary. The present paper focuses on these attitudes in two famous works of the world literature: One Thousand and One Nights, which is the most famous collection of old folk tales from East, and The Canterbury Tales, by English fictionist and poet Geoffrey Chaucer. These two works are almost similar in some respects, such as historical period, social background, and literary style. The researcher has tried to comparatively study the "woman" in them to reveal some paradoxical scope of misogyny and philogyny in both. Manuscript profile