Journal of Literary Criticism and Rhetoric

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Analyzing and Investigating a New Type of Simile in Persian Literature, in Contrast to Preferential Simile

Abdollah Valipour

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 1-18

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.371046.1975

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Simile forms the deep structure of many innovative crafts, and in the rhetorical books of the early and late generations, various types and types of it are mentioned, each of which ... Read More

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Critical Discourse Analysis of the South School of Story Writing (Tangsir, Suvashon, Ahle Gharq)

seyyed mohammad dashti; shahrbanoo goudarzi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 19-39

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.366278.1962

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Writers who live in a common climate are influenced by the social and political climatic conditions of that region in addition to their worldview and personal style. And they create ... Read More

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The representation of identity in the language of the play of Parvin, Sasan´s daughter

Saeed Aboutalebi; Hossein Razavian

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 41-60

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.367296.1965

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The following research examines the representation of identity in the Persian play Parvin, Sasan’s Daughter, written by Sadegh Hedayat. The purpose of this research is to identify ... Read More

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An Analysis of the Novel “Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer” Accentuating the Function of Transposition in Guessing the Audience

Ebrahim Ranjbar

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2023.369458.1970

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The novel “Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer”, authored by Roozbeh Moein (first edition: 2017), reached the eighty-fourth print within three years, according to the book’s ... Read More The novel “Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer”, authored by Roozbeh Moein (first edition: 2017), reached the eighty-fourth print within three years, according to the book’s colophon. According to some news reports[1], purchasers of this novel lined up on the first day of publication and bought all the copies of it. Of course, the impact of social media should be taken seriously in this regard, as the author published purely romantic excerpts of the book online before publication. The purpose of this study is to explain the method of characterization and storytelling of this novel in order to determine its strengths and weaknesses. One of the strengths of this novel is the use of the “transposition” in characterization. This novel is written using the “transposition” style and this style has given a new face to the repetitive concepts of the novel. Here, transposition means that the main character is a core actor. He is multiplied into shadows. Each shadow, in the underlying layer, appears as an actor and, in the outer layer, appears as an independent character but reappears in its original form in one or several actions through one or several similarities. In this review, the analytical method has been utilized. That is, the “transposition” of the characters, which is the focal point of the novel, has been considered, and the degree of distance and proximity and harmony and disharmony of the elements with it have been measured to obtain signs of the aesthetic and cultural tastes of the enthusiasts. The result of the review shows that the elements of the novel are in the service of the “transposition” style. The important characters of the novel are the shadows of the main character and the multiple romantic episodes are the repetition of the main theme of the novel. Additionally, the descriptive aspect of the language, predominating over its behavioral aspect, has significantly highlighted the romantic aspect of the novel. Thus, love and separation and the illusion of loneliness have been repeated many times with various expressions and this can attract specific groups. 1. www.ibna.ir/news

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Transformation of Action in Fear and Trembling of GholamHossein Saedi Based on Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Action

Shirzad Tayefi; Mohammad SheikholEslami

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 81-102

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2021.328899.1728

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One of the tools of a researcher in the field of literature is sociological critique, with which he can analyze the world of the text. In this study, we try to re-read the six stories ... Read More

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Quiddity and How "Symbolic Realism" in Literary Texts

Tahereh Koochekiyan

Volume 13, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 103-120

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.337803.1958

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The present research aims to explain symbolic realism in literary texts by reviewing and critically examining symbolic realism, while explaining three important aspects of symbolic ... Read More

Potentialities and Limitations of the Bakhtinian Approach in Literary Criticism

Hossein Payandeh

Volume 12, Issue 3 , December 2023, , Pages 1-19

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2023.361223.1944

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Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of literary criticism in the twentieth century whose ideas, particularly in the field of novel criticism, have been widely embraced ... Read More Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of literary criticism in the twentieth century whose ideas, particularly in the field of novel criticism, have been widely embraced by scholars in literary studies worldwide. In Iran, however, the Bakhtinian approach is less known compared with other critical approaches such as mythological-archetypal criticism or psychoanalytical criticism. Bakhtin initially started his literary scholarship in association with the Russian Formalists, but gradually distanced himself from their viewpoints and established his own independent approach in criticism. The Russian Formalists believed the function of language in literary texts to be “defamiliarisation”. As such, they argued that figures of speech are tools that poets and writers use in order to make the literary use of language different from its non-literary usage. Bakhtin disagreed with the Formalists and argued that language also has social and discursive aspects that need to be taken into account so that the critic would be in a position to offer insights into the deeper, hidden layers of social behaviour. Therefore, unlike the Formalists who focused their attention on the rhetorical and formal aspects of literary works, Bakhtin tried to analyse literature as discourse. Highlighting the social aspects of the novel, he emphasizes that the critic’s central concern should be to investigate how language is used in the novel. In his view, language in the novel, in distinction to poetry, is marked by concreteness. Therefore, novelistic prose is always orientated towards concrete details, as it also is in journalistic as well as legal and political texts. This concrete orientation necessitates that linguistic usage in the novel be consistent with actual language use by social groups. Concentrating on the novel as an essentially polyphonic genre marked by heteroglossia, he put forward a theory about the carnivalesque in the novel.This essay aims to expound the Bakhtinian approach in literary criticism by focusing on the tripartite concepts of “polyphony”, “heteroglossia” and “carnival”. To do so, we first discuss Bakhtin’s ideas on the essential contrast between the language of poetry and the language of the novel and then move on to consider his viewpoints on the multiplicity of voices in the novel, linguistic reflection of social stratification in this genre, and its carnivalesque qualities. In order to clarify the theoretical aspects of the Bakhtinian approach, we complement our exposition of Bakhtin’s theory with critical readings of three sample texts of Persian literature, which include selected extracts from Ferowsi’s Shahnameh, a poem by Mehdi Akhvan Salles entitled “Sonnet No. 3”, and the novel Shazdeh Ehtejab by Hooshang Golshiri. In the conclusion to this essay, we offer our assessment of the potentialities as well as the limitations of Bakhtin’s theory in literary criticism in addition to drawing a perspective of the expansion and updating of this critical approach

Exaggeration: Beyond Imagination

Muhammad H. Muhammadi; Meitham Hajipour

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 95-114

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2014.50571

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Exaggeration is a rhetoric picture which is often used to arrange the speech and to attract the audience. In exaggeration, the poet, shows his meanings by the use of two methods, to ... Read More

A New Look at Ambiguity in Persian Rhetoric

Amir Chenari

Volume 2, Issue 2 , March 2014, , Pages 115-134

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2014.50572

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Ambiguity is one of very important techniques in Persian rhetoric, but in spite of its importance, it seems there is not enough accuracy in its definition and types. The present ... Read More

A Comparative Study on Ambiguity and its uses in the Poems of Khaghani and Hafez

Ahmad Ghanipour Malekshah; Soudabeh Reza-zadeh

Volume 2, Issue 1 , December 2013, , Pages 37-56

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2013.35932

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Several structures, themes, content and semantic elements of the poems can be described to analyze the poetry of each poet, and the quality of their pristine and pure conditions and ... Read More

Rhetoric Analysis on Metaphor in Sa’adi’s Arabic Poems

Mostafa Kamaljoo; Elham Zare

Volume 2, Issue 1 , December 2013, , Pages 77-96

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2013.35934

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Sa'adi Shirazi, as one of the greatest Persian poets, was also fluent in Arabic language. Despite his fluency in Arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show ... Read More

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Analyzing and Investigating a New Type of Simile in Persian Literature, in Contrast to Preferential Simile

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Critical Discourse Analysis of the South School of Story Writing (Tangsir, Suvashon, Ahle Gharq)

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The representation of identity in the language of the play of Parvin, Sasan´s daughter

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An Analysis of the Novel “Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer” Accentuating the Function of Transposition in Guessing the Audience

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Transformation of Action in Fear and Trembling of GholamHossein Saedi Based on Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Action

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Quiddity and How "Symbolic Realism" in Literary Texts

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Potentialities and Limitations of the Bakhtinian Approach in Literary Criticism

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Exaggeration: Beyond Imagination

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A New Look at Ambiguity in Persian Rhetoric

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A Comparative Study on Ambiguity and its uses in the Poems of Khaghani and Hafez

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Rhetoric Analysis on Metaphor in Sa’adi’s Arabic Poems

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