Persian literature

aspects of her novel that I am supposed to investigate with regard to their Persian translations: point of view/focalization, and modes of speech and though representation. These are the most challenging literary aspects of this novel that not only, as the marked and salient stylistic features of her novel, have elicited much more appreciations and commentaries of the literary critics, but also they can be studied in their Persian…

Crescent can best be presented from a postmodernist angle as it deals with especially identity, multiculturalism, hybridity, ethnicity, exile, displacement as well as other relevant aspects such as intertextuality, language and narrative technique. Consequently, this study will shed light on the issues of identity, hybridity, exile and displacement. Though this work of Abu Jaber has already received the attention of many critics, I chose this novel of hers because of its relation with the Arabs'…

In Richard Chase’s “The Ambiguity of The Scarlet Letter,” he suggests that The Scarlet Letter is ambiguous and unclear, drawing upon the duality of Hawthorne's life and writing to defend this. He also argues that the novel bears both a feministic theme and an anti-feministic Puritan theme. Lastly, he states that the novel serves as an allegory to Puritan society and to the Mechanistic struggle, which is the fight for dominance between Absolute Good and Absolute Evil. Chase argues that The…

For example The reconstruction of the wall in 445. B.C. E and the Exile in 538. The main characters in the story is God, people of God, Nehemiah, the king of Persia, Cyrus (559-530) B. C. E. The scene is Susa the Capital, the winter residence of Persians kings. Laments is a specific genre found in this bible text words addressed to God- the…

Back ground: According to Bassnett and Gundy (1993) “Literature is a high pint of language practice; debatable it makes the best skill a language user can express. Anyone who wants to obtain a thoughtful knowledge of language that goes away from the useful will read literary texts in that language.” Usually, literature is look upon to be the privilege of definite people who are capable with certain ability and understanding literature. Literature is ahead of than the achieve of common people.…

Herodotus, in his work, The Histories, describes the leaders of the two combatant coalitions in the Persian War, Themistocles of the Greeks and Xerxes of the Persians, in very different ways. Herodotus often points to how both men handle council and their own piety as a tool to depict what kind of men they are, and at times reinforces his own generalizations of the Greek and Persian people using these men as his proxy. Herodotus seems to accept the idea that men, as individuals, can shape great…

The Parthenon’s Impact Past and Present “Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.” In today’s society, we are affected by history from the past, which could be anything from World War II to the times of ancient Israel and the Savior’s ministry. The Parthenon is the former temple to the Goddess Athena and an ancient architectural structure…

First of all, after dismissing the early accounts of Greek-Persian conflicts, Herodotus claims, “He (i.e. Croesus of Lydia) was the first foreigner so far we know to come into direct contact with the Greeks, both in the way of conquest and alliance.” (Herodotus, I.6) Furthermore, Croesus the king of Lydia is regarded…

own unique ways. The Peloponnesian and Persian wars were both important conflicts that focused on independence. Herodotus earned the designation “The Father of History” because before his writings, the Greeks had no word for history in terms of writing a narration of past events in prose. He has been anointed as the world’s first Western historian. Herodotus’s book The Histories, a record of his inquiries into the events of the conflict between the Persian Empire and Ancient Greeks; is…

conflict with the Persian Empire, the struggle known as the Persian Wars (500 – 479 B.C). In 480 B.C, ten years after Darius’s defeat, his successor Xerxes sent a big naval and military force to subdue Greece. After being famously delayed by Spartan troops under the leadership of king Leonidas at the Thermopylae, the Persian army succeeded in capturing and burning Athens, but the Greek fleet lead by Athenians defeated the Persian navy at the battle of Salamis. Greeks and Persian continued to…