Persian Language and Literature
M.Mostafa Resalatpanahi; Hossien Ghorbanpour
Abstract
Mohammad RezāKhabushāni, also known as Naw'i Khabushāni (970- 1019 AH), a famous poet in tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh century, was one of the indisputable masters of Persian literature in Indian peninsula.The poetry of his poems was published in 1374 by Amir-Hossein Zākerzādeh ...
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Mohammad RezāKhabushāni, also known as Naw'i Khabushāni (970- 1019 AH), a famous poet in tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh century, was one of the indisputable masters of Persian literature in Indian peninsula.The poetry of his poems was published in 1374 by Amir-Hossein Zākerzādeh and the efforts of Ahmad Karami by Mā publication in Tehran. In this print, there are many shortcomings, distortions, weaknesses, and mistakes that often result from possible defects in handwriting or bad readiness and timeliness. These same factors have reduced the accuracy of this print and the poetry’s Naw'i that go away from the accuracy and eloquence.With the help of the older and more authoritative handwritten copies of the Divān, some of the mistakes in the poet’s poem can be corrected and revised.This research is a critical analysis and survey and checking of some of his poems, in which the writers criticized the abundance of his verses by holding two handwritten copies of the court of this poet and comparing it with the text of the Divan And have concluded that the current edition of the Divān has been taken without the use of scientific methods of correction and in no way worthy and deserving of this poet is not capable.
Persian Language and Literature
Ali Soleimani; Mohammad reza Movahedi
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This essay is devoted to the review of the fifth book entitled “Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi”. Naturally, reviewing and analyzing all 4238 verses of this book is more than the capacity of an article. Therefore, in this study, we attempt to show a brief picture of the shortcoming ...
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This essay is devoted to the review of the fifth book entitled “Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi”. Naturally, reviewing and analyzing all 4238 verses of this book is more than the capacity of an article. Therefore, in this study, we attempt to show a brief picture of the shortcoming of this work by classifying the main reasons for the existing perceptions of the work and bringing one or more related examples. The author in this work relies on two important factors, named “the context of the verses” and “the use of own context sign of Mathnavi”. We have found, despite the great efforts of the respected collector, that this work has significant shortcomings such as: not having the relationship between the meaning and vertical pivot of the verses, rejecting the correct explaining of other exegetes, unrelated explanation inside the brackets with the original purpose of the verse, disregarding the connection between two hemistichs, and wrong reading of verses, etc. The existence of these things has made some meaning of verses inconsistent with the original intentions of Rumi in Mathnavi, and empty space of proper description of Mathnavi is felt.
Persian Language and Literature
Elham Sayyedan
Abstract
The present study investigates the effectiveness of the headlines of such lessons as “writing and editing styles” and “editing workshop” (1) and (2) in curricula presented in BA course of Persian language and literature. These are amongst the most applied lessons in the Persian ...
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The present study investigates the effectiveness of the headlines of such lessons as “writing and editing styles” and “editing workshop” (1) and (2) in curricula presented in BA course of Persian language and literature. These are amongst the most applied lessons in the Persian language and literature major that, while they improve the writing skills of the university students, they prepare them for fitting new occupational grounds whereas it seems according to the indices set by the lesson planning council that these lessens need revisions. The present study considers the indices proposed by the supreme lesson planning council to criticize and investigate the aforesaid lessons. The indices are: being up-to-date and responsive to the society needs, setting the ground for the emergence of the creativities, being in proportion to the program’s components, being coordinated with the strategic documents and plans, and being attentive to the real nature of the course. The study results indicated that these indices have not been correctly observed in the codification of the curriculum, and the existent programs have shortfalls and problems. No attention has been paid to the prerequisites, and the lessons have overlaps, and this has caused the macro-structure of the headlines to lack the required proportion. Moreover, no emphasis has been made on the learning activities contributing to the fostering of creativity. Another problem of the lessons is lack of attention paid to the strategic documents and programs, including the supervisory role of the Persian language and literature academy, and there is also no attention paid to the materials and contents of headlines to the enactments by the academy, including Persian writing styles, word choice, etc. Investigation of the materials and topics in terms of newness and being up-to-date is reflective of the structural, content-related, and lingual problems of the introduced materials in terms of not being recent; hence, a need is felt for revision of the existing headlines and materials.
Persian Language and Literature
Hashem Sadeghi Mohsenabad; Akbar Heidariyan
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This study aimed to investigate the descriptive glossary of Khaghani Sherwani’s book of poems written by Rasoul Chehrghani. Successful glossaries, to some extent, have been published about Khaghani Sherwani’s book of poems, before this work. Thus, this glossary has tried to make some new ...
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This study aimed to investigate the descriptive glossary of Khaghani Sherwani’s book of poems written by Rasoul Chehrghani. Successful glossaries, to some extent, have been published about Khaghani Sherwani’s book of poems, before this work. Thus, this glossary has tried to make some new points on ignored issues in previous glossaries and shed elucidatory light on the complex poems. In addition to discussing the general features of this work and analyzing its structural features, its merits, drawbacks, and content requirements were also analyzed. The book under study was analyzed for the content mistakes at two levels: structural and formal analysis. Moreover, it was found that the reliability of the work under study was significantly decreased due to disregard for new research findings, the lack of consideration of some punctuation marks, incorrect entries, inconsistencies of entries and descriptions, the lack of use of primary sources, and mistakes as a result of the hasty publication process. Finally, some suggestions were made to improve the quality of the book.
Persian Language and Literature
Mohammad Aalizadeh Meresht; Ghodsieh Rezvanian; Samaneh Jafari
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In the curriculum of Iran, the Persian Literature lessons and its textbooks play a significant role. At the same time, poetry is very important in Persian literature. For these reasons, this paper intends to describe analytically the Persian Literature books of this period in a quantitative and qualitative ...
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In the curriculum of Iran, the Persian Literature lessons and its textbooks play a significant role. At the same time, poetry is very important in Persian literature. For these reasons, this paper intends to describe analytically the Persian Literature books of this period in a quantitative and qualitative way to examine the status of poetry and the intellectual and aesthetic approaches of the selected poems. We want to know if the poems in these books have the ability to portray an appropriate, transcendent, and realistic picture of Persian poetry in students’ minds. The results indicate that the books in question are mostly prose-based. The selected poems are mostly devoted to epic, patriotic and revolutionary literature, and from an intellectual and aesthetic point of view, they may not be attractive enough to encourage students to read and enjoy textbooks in class. Due to the inappropriate distribution of poems in literary genres, styles of poetry, poetry formats, and poems of Persian books, this course does not show the correct face of Persian poetry to the audience. In terms of the status of the poets and their works, there are also many criticisms of the three books. Therefore, this study emphasizes the necessity of revising and modifying the textbooks studied.
Persian Language and Literature
Sepideh Abdolkarimi
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The present article is the result of a critical look at the book “Verb Valency and Basic Constructions of Sentences in Modern Persian; a Survey based on Dependency Grammar Theory” which is written by Dr. Omid Tabibzadeh in eight chapters. Due to the fact that the dependency approach to grammar ...
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The present article is the result of a critical look at the book “Verb Valency and Basic Constructions of Sentences in Modern Persian; a Survey based on Dependency Grammar Theory” which is written by Dr. Omid Tabibzadeh in eight chapters. Due to the fact that the dependency approach to grammar in Iran has gained less attention than other grammatical approaches, the lack of the presence of such a book in Persian, introducing this grammatical approach to language researchers interested in this approach, was strongly felt. For this reason, author’s attempt is admirable. One of the challenges the author has faced has been equivalent choices for technical terms in the named approach, and the absence of books in this field in Persian has resulted in the present situation which is the lack of Persian sources in Dependency Grammar. Because of the mentioned lack, sometimes we face a variety of technical terms, ambiguous definitions, and counterexamples in traditional grammars. Therefore, this article is the introduction of the book, its chapters, its strong points, and also its weak points.
Persian Language and Literature
Yadollah Nasrollahi
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Negaresh and Virayesh is a valuable work of Ahmad Samii (Gilani) which has been a student book, and a resource for students k for many years in teaching writing and spelling. The numerous prints and a large number of reprints have proved it to be of great interest to readers and ...
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Negaresh and Virayesh is a valuable work of Ahmad Samii (Gilani) which has been a student book, and a resource for students k for many years in teaching writing and spelling. The numerous prints and a large number of reprints have proved it to be of great interest to readers and audiences. The book has two main parts: Writing and Editing, in which Samii Gilani has explained and argued as much as possible, citing evidence and arguments. The major errors and slips found in the first section (writing) of the work are: lack of introduction, section titles in sentence form, inconsistent paragraph organization, insertion and explanation of non-writing entries; research paper, reference, definition section. They do not seem appropriate to the writing effect. Editing section errors (mentioning linguistic errors) include: not giving sufficient reasons for enumerating linguistic errors (editing language), insisting on the contradiction of word spellings, separation in spelling contradicting spelling words with the Farsi script. This article seeks to cite as much as possible the evidence of the work. The research method of this paper is comparative, analytical, and critical, the evidence of which is gathered through documentary and invoice method.
Persian Language and Literature
Davood Vaseghi; Mohammad Reza Najarian
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So far, many books have been written about the poems and thoughts of Moulana Jalal Al-Din. Scholars and researchers have studied his books from different perspectives. One of the books published in this area is entitled “Moulana and Some Stories from Masnavi” by Sirous Shamisa. This study ...
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So far, many books have been written about the poems and thoughts of Moulana Jalal Al-Din. Scholars and researchers have studied his books from different perspectives. One of the books published in this area is entitled “Moulana and Some Stories from Masnavi” by Sirous Shamisa. This study is a criticism of the book “Moulana and Some Stories from Masnavi” based on the mystic tradition of Moulana’s method. In the sections entitled “the biography of the followers of Moulana’s method”, “issues on mystic topics”, and “rhetorical issues”, “issues on interpretation, allegories and stories” and “issues on the thoughts of Moulana and the modern man”, the authors have analyzed and investigated the book and used the ideas of other researchers in the field in order to explain the issues better. This book has been written innovatively and has opened new doors to the studies of Moulana using modern modes in humanities. Despite all the positive points, some points that the book author has mentioned on the biography of Moulana, as well as the mystic topics, are in contradiction with the main sources of research on Moulana, the mystic tradition of Moulavi, and the ideas of other researchers in the field.
Persian Language and Literature
Abbas Vaezzadeh
Abstract
Plagiarism is one of the most unethical research damage that is nowadays growing in our academic research. The purpose of this article is to examine various aspects of plagiarism in academic articles as the most prominent representative of academic studies, and in particular the academic articles of ...
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Plagiarism is one of the most unethical research damage that is nowadays growing in our academic research. The purpose of this article is to examine various aspects of plagiarism in academic articles as the most prominent representative of academic studies, and in particular the academic articles of the Persian literature field. For this purpose, plagiarism is firstly defined by mentioning some examples of it in the academic articles of Persian literature. Moreover, in the future, the authorities, factors, and motives behind the plagiarism of research articles are investigated. Finally, strategies for the prevention of plagiarism and retraction of pirated articles in journals of the Persian literature field are offered. This article focuses on the inhibiting role of "plagiarism checker software" (in pre-publication), "review articles" by researchers and experts to study history (perspicacious eyes) is written in different fields of study and the publication of these articles by academic journals, retraction of stuffed articles and the cancellation of their score, as practical solutions in this regard stresses.
Persian Language and Literature
Issa Amankhani
Abstract
Recently, postmodern theories are the main theoretical framework for many published studies in postmodern theories, whatever the reason is for considering these theories. The application of this theory is usually done in two forms. A) Through presenting a simplistic reading of postmodernism (in ...
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Recently, postmodern theories are the main theoretical framework for many published studies in postmodern theories, whatever the reason is for considering these theories. The application of this theory is usually done in two forms. A) Through presenting a simplistic reading of postmodernism (in this case, the differences between the postmodern theories are being ignored), its main components such as uncertainty, etc., are also extracted, and then the text is analyzed in terms of the components. B) Only such postmodern theories as Derrida's (de) construction are the building block for the text analysis. Despite a lot of studies, it seems that the application of postmodern theory did not play any significant role in enhancing our knowledge. Although there are several reasons for this failure, one of the main reasons to such demerits is the simplistic reading and reductive application of postmodern theory. The present article seeks to investigate one of the most important elements, namely short story based on postmodern theory. Furthermore, it specifically aims to address the short story in Iran as framed in postmodern stories (with emphasis on chapter 9, the Postmodernism characterizing based on Foucault's theory) to disclose the outcomes and the reasons why reductionism and simplistic reading occurs in such works.
Persian Language and Literature
Zakarya Bezdoode; Cyrus Amiri
Abstract
The present paper aims to apply a critical reading to the book entitled “Theory of Genre: An Analytical and Historical Approach”, by Mahdi Zarghani and Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh which was first published in 2015 by Hermes Publications. The book includes four parts and sixteen chapters. ...
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The present paper aims to apply a critical reading to the book entitled “Theory of Genre: An Analytical and Historical Approach”, by Mahdi Zarghani and Mahmood Reza Ghorban Sabbagh which was first published in 2015 by Hermes Publications. The book includes four parts and sixteen chapters. It is a historical and, at parts, a critical review of the theory of genre from Plato to the present. It is a comprehensive book with encyclopedic features that endeavors to review and explicate the theory of genre throughout history. A review of the book shows that although the authors have achieved their goals relatively, the book needs to be reviewed and revised particularly concerning the content and the method of the study. In this paper, we have tried to point to some of these methodical and textual shortcomings that need to be considered and possibly corrected for the future reprinting of the book
Persian Language and Literature
Davood Pour Mozaffari
Abstract
Ziya’ Ghâsemi claims in his book, Sabk-e Adabi Az Didghâh-e Zabânŝenâsi, that he has presented an analytic pattern based on linguistics, especially generative grammar, to analyze literary text’s style. This essay evaluates the book and its writer’s claims ...
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Ziya’ Ghâsemi claims in his book, Sabk-e Adabi Az Didghâh-e Zabânŝenâsi, that he has presented an analytic pattern based on linguistics, especially generative grammar, to analyze literary text’s style. This essay evaluates the book and its writer’s claims through criticizing the book’s form and content. Based on this book, this article attempts to show not only this book does not present a new point of view and method, but also it merely addresses some abstract examples like previous stylistics handbooks in Farsi. The book cannot be counted as a progress in literary and stylistic studies in any way because of its out of date references, ignoring new approaches in stylistics, repetition of other handbook’s defects, shallow knowledge about Persian literature, and misunderstandings of some literary terms.
Persian Language and Literature
Mohammad Ragheb
Abstract
Chapters of Kelk-e Khiyal-Angiz (Ney Publication: 2014) by AbolfazlHorri are devoted to “Theory of Literary Genres”, “fantasy and fantastic”, “uncanny in psychology and literature”, “structural approach to fantastic” and “poetics of fantastic ...
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Chapters of Kelk-e Khiyal-Angiz (Ney Publication: 2014) by AbolfazlHorri are devoted to “Theory of Literary Genres”, “fantasy and fantastic”, “uncanny in psychology and literature”, “structural approach to fantastic” and “poetics of fantastic literature, miracles and marvels in practice”. Examples of critical data include Faraj-e Ba’dazSheddat, Haft Peykar, Arabian Nights, ‘jayeb-name and stories of Sūrat al-Kahf. The main approach of the author is TzvetanTodorov approach in The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. In a general evaluation, the book has some problems: using Western theory in Persian traditional stories without any modification is not so useful, and borders of different genres have not been specified, selected cases have been chosen unreasonably. Some problems have been seen in the story analysis and some examples are not in accordance with the approach. A few terms have been translated wrongly. Moreover, sometimes there are some simple editing problems, for instance redundancy, circumlocution, and repeating make reading difficult. General and obvious results are more than needed. Referential system and bibliography have some problems as well. Above all, sometimes translated texts have been used instead of writing.
Persian Language and Literature
zeinab rezapour
Abstract
One of the lessons considered essential for the better understanding of Quranic knowledge in the field of Persian literature is familiarity with Quranic sciences. But, this lesson has some drawbacks in goals, syllabuses, and educational books that have diminished its importance, attractiveness and effectiveness, ...
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One of the lessons considered essential for the better understanding of Quranic knowledge in the field of Persian literature is familiarity with Quranic sciences. But, this lesson has some drawbacks in goals, syllabuses, and educational books that have diminished its importance, attractiveness and effectiveness, which havegreatly influenced this lesson. Three important and widely circulated textbooks are written by the scholars Radmanesh, Halabi, and Rokni. While these textbooks possess some merits such as inclusion of the most significant Quranic Sciences, useful and valuable information in this regard as well as some literary topics proportionate to the subject, they also have some demerits and drawbacks. The critical problem is the lack of a comprehensive and methodological approach to include the literary subjects related to the syllabus designs which are mentioned in the educational books on Introduction to Quranic Sciences, which, along with such factors as comprehensive and non-impediment of teaching lessons, addressing unnecessary material, the lack of prioritization of Qur'anic topics based on its reflection in literature and turmoil. In compiling the content of textbooks, this lesson has been thrown into the fringe of specialized Persian literature courses. In this research, we try to find ways to improve the quality of the lesson and improve its status through a descriptive-analytical method along with pathology and critique of the educational sections and academic courses of the Quranic sciences familiarizing.
Persian Language and Literature
Roya Yadolahi Shahrah
Abstract
In this article, the book “Comment on Comment”, written by Seyyed Ali Kashefi Khansari, consisting of 12 book reviews, a pathology of children's literary theory books, and a response to review response, was investigated and criticized in two sections. In the first section, the form and content ...
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In this article, the book “Comment on Comment”, written by Seyyed Ali Kashefi Khansari, consisting of 12 book reviews, a pathology of children's literary theory books, and a response to review response, was investigated and criticized in two sections. In the first section, the form and content generality of the book were reviewed, and in the second section, all the articles separately, based on the principles of book review were reviewed. Finally, the lack of a comprehensive introduction, problems in the number of index pages, lack of reasoning and rationality of most of the claims made in the book, lack of citation and examples of claims and reviews when necessary, often the lack and sometimes deficiency of citing references, non-use of lexicons and specific language and some writing and typing problems are major drawbacks of the book. The strengths and weaknesses of book review articles include: Introducing the history and subject area of books and their place among similar works in most articles, sometimes exceeding mere review, proposing new topics, categorizing and indexing or numbering reviews and axes of review in some articles that facilitates receiving concepts, and in the whole book, its simple and suitable appearance. Finally, the book was considered inappropriate for the academic research and education.
Persian Language and Literature
Saeid Shafieioun
Abstract
The book "Analytical Approach to Rhetoric" is one of the recently-published scholarly textbooks in the field of rhetoric that, while relying on the basics of traditional rhetoric, has attempted to use new approaches in this field as well. Moreover, the critical aspect and the approach of this book to ...
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The book "Analytical Approach to Rhetoric" is one of the recently-published scholarly textbooks in the field of rhetoric that, while relying on the basics of traditional rhetoric, has attempted to use new approaches in this field as well. Moreover, the critical aspect and the approach of this book to review the most prevalent issues in the field of rhetoric, which have been stated in previous sources as well as its attempt to provide a detailed investigation of some of them, absolutely justify the title of this book. The shortcomings of this book are categorized into general and specific ones. The general ones include some problems such as print mistakes and typos, the lack of literature review and the method of referencing and bibliography whereas the specific ones comprise those flaws which appeared in relation to the subject and structure of this book. There are some cases like improper selection of evidence and misreading of them that sometimes have led to false analysis and recognition of rhetorical principles. In this critique, the weak coherence of the book in managing the discussion as well as evidence and categorizing the content has been pointed out, and also its mundane verbosity and unnecessary brevity has been discussed.
Persian Language and Literature
Davood Emarati Moghaddam
Abstract
The semiotics theory of Greimas is mainly introduced to Persian readers by Hamid Reza Sha'iri. This article attempts to prove that the presentation of this theory and the explanation of its foundational concepts and methodological bases, have only made it more complicated and difficult. This article ...
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The semiotics theory of Greimas is mainly introduced to Persian readers by Hamid Reza Sha'iri. This article attempts to prove that the presentation of this theory and the explanation of its foundational concepts and methodological bases, have only made it more complicated and difficult. This article examines Sha'iri's last book, namely The Semio-Semantics of Literature: Towards the Theory of Literary Discourse Analysis and some other writings of the author to show the causes of ambiguity which exist through them. The most important causes of ambiguity in what the author has written about Grimasian semiotics are: 1- The lack of historical approach to semiotics theory 2- Ambiguity of definitions, classifications and terms 3- using insufficient and sometimes wrong Persian substitutes for technical terms of Greimasian theory of semiotics. The article concludes that because of the aforementioned faults, the book cannot represent how the Greimasian semiotic concepts and methodology should be applied to the literary texts, and even the most elementary questions about the application of different methods in understanding and assessing literary texts, remain unanswered.
Persian Language and Literature
Haleh Kiani barforoush; Ghodsieh Rezvanian
Abstract
The General Persian Book is one of the academic curriculum resources that has not been designated for its part and several books are written by the professors of Persian literature for it. The review of 12 General Persian books in this study shows that the type of perception and the attitudes of the ...
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The General Persian Book is one of the academic curriculum resources that has not been designated for its part and several books are written by the professors of Persian literature for it. The review of 12 General Persian books in this study shows that the type of perception and the attitudes of the professors to the nature of "literature" are very effective in the writing this books. In most of these books, the purpose and perspective are not different from the high school Persian books, and the approach of most of these books is to provide attractive and informative selections of literary texts. The difference between books is mainly in the presentation of different excerpts from the texts of order and prose. The position of the author's thoughts is apparent only in the selection of texts, and books are not primarily designed and written. The effort to present a selection of high and sublime texts has marginalized other discourses and literary currents in these books. In most of these books, there is no role for the audience, and from this perspective, they have a static and passive approach. The results of this study highlight the necessity of compiling a book on the subject of literature as a public school curriculum.
Persian Language and Literature
Mostafa Gorji
Abstract
On of printed works in the Persian language and literature field with respect to research teaching is ‘Research Principles in the Persian Language and Literature’ written by Taheri. Analyzing such a book amongst f similar works appears that the writer has tried to go beyond Persian language ...
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On of printed works in the Persian language and literature field with respect to research teaching is ‘Research Principles in the Persian Language and Literature’ written by Taheri. Analyzing such a book amongst f similar works appears that the writer has tried to go beyond Persian language and literature by his critical and philosophical points of view. ’. The present review aims to review the most important shortcoming along with some necessary suggestions. The most important points in the discussion of structure and methods are inaccuracy in quotations and relying on memory, lack of mentioning the resources in the end, hurrying in the list of announcements, verbosity, lack of harmony of chapter titles and contents, mentioning unnecessary evidence, and lack of clarification between quotations and the writer’s opinion. In the discussion of content critique, lack of audience rhetoric, lack of attention to education principles and claimed proposition and discussion about unnecessary contents can be mentioned. So, the final review shows that this book despite its title and target goes beyond language and literature field and because of this attitude, it needs to revision.
Persian Language and Literature
Rahman Moshtagmehr
Abstract
Although hedonistic and some other self-beneficial and pleasure-seeking approaches towards a text are assumed to be subjective, those who aim at dealing with textual exegesis, and publishing the resultant text in the public domain undertake a responsibility for which they must accept some requirements ...
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Although hedonistic and some other self-beneficial and pleasure-seeking approaches towards a text are assumed to be subjective, those who aim at dealing with textual exegesis, and publishing the resultant text in the public domain undertake a responsibility for which they must accept some requirements necessary to the successful accomplishment of the task. Exegetes should know the text well and get acquainted with it thoroughly. To achieve a reliable, revised, or edited version, exegetes should exert themselves in laborious task of revising. They should be sensitive, precise, and strict during the task of reading; furthermore, in case of encountering with any linguistic or metrical heterogeneities (in poetical texts) or any alternations regarding the internal logic of the main text, they should not rely on their self-reading of the text; instead, they should try to unravel the problem through continual and repeated rereading, referring to dictionary and other related resources, note-taking from corrected and revised versions, and consulting experts of the field. The above-mentioned procedure will be fruitful when exegetes acquire the necessary requirements for textual interpretation and mastery in related fields. One should not surmise that proficiency and expertise in a discipline of Humanities ensure mastery in all of the related domains; this kind of complacency, especially amongst those who are assumed to be authorities of the field, is not acceptable at all. The current paper, as a pioneering model, intends to analyze and criticize Gholamhussain Dinani’s reading of Rumi’s ghazals from various angles of vision, namely, the reliability of the text as a sourcebook, the correct reading, the way of dealing with problems confronted as a result of inadequate knowledge about the mentality and language of the main author, and exegete’s explanations about the literary content.
Persian Language and Literature
Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Vardanjani; seyed Javad Mortezaei; Mhammadreza torki; Maryam Salehinia
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The two stylistics books of Shamisa and Gholam-Rezaie are the sources which have divided the Persian poetry styles with aperiodic (historical/geographical) perspective. These two works, despite some major drawbacks, have been the source of teaching and reference for many years. The lack of critical and ...
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The two stylistics books of Shamisa and Gholam-Rezaie are the sources which have divided the Persian poetry styles with aperiodic (historical/geographical) perspective. These two works, despite some major drawbacks, have been the source of teaching and reference for many years. The lack of critical and specialized review on these two works, caused them to be reprinted repeatedly with a little change. This research aims at investigating and analyzing the existing information in these books about Arrani style (Azarbaijani), in order to correct some non-scientific propositions which have been accepted for many years and are transferred from one research to another. In the same vein, after a quick look at the background of Persian poetry classification and reference to some existing conflicts about the Sixth century poetry and the Arrani (Azarbaijanian) style, we will discuss the stylistics criticism of Shamisa, and then the stylistics criticism of Gholam-Rezaie.
Persian Language and Literature
Roohollah Hadi
Abstract
Doing studies about the king of speech “Sa’di” is highly respected and the greater they are the greater happiness they make. Atash-e-Parsi is one of these studies on Sa’di`s life and poems. Seeing Sa’di’s name in the first step, makes the reader smile but reading the ...
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Doing studies about the king of speech “Sa’di” is highly respected and the greater they are the greater happiness they make. Atash-e-Parsi is one of these studies on Sa’di`s life and poems. Seeing Sa’di’s name in the first step, makes the reader smile but reading the book more seriously and thinking twice about its content, changes this early feeling little by little, besides revealing new points and facts. A fair reader will understand that the writer of the book, as a Shiite Muslim, has used the SA’DI Collected Works as well as a collection of other historic, religious, mystical, literary, and other references to show a personality of Sa’di based on his own personal thoughts and beliefs. He has also tried to reconstruct the real life of the poet using his romantic Ghazals, which are a product of a unique moment. As a result, reading this book makes hundreds of questions in the readers’ mind and totally confuses them. They mainly have complaints about the periphrasis, incorrect inference, repetition, and the irregular references and wonder why the writer and the publisher did not care about their reader’s mind. considering the fact that a professional publishing institute like Ettela’at is rightly expected to pay much more attention to judging books before publishing them.
Persian Language and Literature
Sajjad Aydenloo
Volume 18, Issue 2 , June 2018, , Pages 1-29
Abstract
Shabrangnameh is one of the heroic poems after Shahnameh which is proceeded to take a revenge of Shabrang, the son of White Dave, from Iranians and his battles with Rostam and Iranians. Although the identification and introduction of the work goes back about a hundred and twenty years ago, knowledge ...
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Shabrangnameh is one of the heroic poems after Shahnameh which is proceeded to take a revenge of Shabrang, the son of White Dave, from Iranians and his battles with Rostam and Iranians. Although the identification and introduction of the work goes back about a hundred and twenty years ago, knowledge and available studies about it are very scarce and its edited text has also recently been published. Shabrangnameh, the poet of which is unknown, has 2877 lines, and it is estimated that it goes back to the sixth century poets. Because this poem is the reference of two courses of the tendency epic literary topics in the Persian Literature PhD program, in this paper, while introducing edition of this book and designing the hints to determine the probable date of its composition, some proposals have been also presented about a part of cases of introduction and recordings of its text.
Persian Language and Literature
Morad Esmaeeli
Volume 18, Issue 2 , June 2018, , Pages 31-45
Abstract
Undoubtedly, choosing a proper and suitable methodology for a research is regarded as one of the most fundamental principles of a scientific research. Familiarity and knowledge of these research methodologies and approaches will lead to the emergence of valuable and reliable studies.The book, Research ...
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Undoubtedly, choosing a proper and suitable methodology for a research is regarded as one of the most fundamental principles of a scientific research. Familiarity and knowledge of these research methodologies and approaches will lead to the emergence of valuable and reliable studies.The book, Research Methodology in Simple Language, is written by Maryam Sadeghi. In her book, the author endeavored to clarify the methods and principles of writing a thesis for the students of Persian Literature.The author of the current article concentrates on surveying and reviewing this book. He also points to the weak and strong points of the book in question. Based on findings of the article, despite the merits of the book such as dealing with research questions, containing specialized exercises, referring to the tables, and most importantly focusing on the field of Persian Literature, the book has many fundamental problems, including the contradiction between the title of the book and its content, the writer’s lack of attention to the basic rules of writing and editing, the presence of confusing sentences suffering from lack of enough information, and its incomprehensibility. These shortcomings will prevent its readers from not only its full understanding but also from benefitting from it.
Persian Language and Literature
Issa Amankhani
Volume 18, Issue 2 , June 2018, , Pages 47-67
Abstract
Contrary to the tradition of some scholars such as Forouzanfar, Homaee, Zarrinkoub who mainly discussed life and thought of the author / poet, some of the works by Dr. Shafiee Kadkani are specific and different because they have emphasized the question of form and the form of literary work apart from ...
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Contrary to the tradition of some scholars such as Forouzanfar, Homaee, Zarrinkoub who mainly discussed life and thought of the author / poet, some of the works by Dr. Shafiee Kadkani are specific and different because they have emphasized the question of form and the form of literary work apart from the content and theme, and they have sometimes written books (poetry, music) or perfectly have crafted oriented articles (based on formalist). Resurrection of Words: A Lesson of Speeches on Literary Theory of Russian Formalists has been the most formalist work by him which is discussed in the introduction of the formalism (history, teachings and characters affected), and some of his articles have been included which have been written with inspiration from their ideas. With all the advantages that this book has (such as all works by Dr. Shafiee Kadkani), there are some criticisms leveled against it. The main criticisms are as follows: 1- incomplete expression (and possibly incorrect) background / context of the emergence of Russian Formalism, 2- lack of coherence of theories presented by the author, 3- some irrefutable and non-scientific propositions in the book and 4-, the inclusion of chapters such as "potter motif evolution in the poetry of Omar Khayyam" which is not consistent with formalism space of the book of resurrection of words.
