The literary relation between Parvin E’tesami and Walt Whitman remains a largely unexplored field. This article analyzes the connection between “God’s Weaver” and “A Noiseless Patient Spider” to shed light on Parvin’s creative reception of Whitman. Creating a mixed-breed spider, combining characteristics from both
Whitman’s insect and the Persi…[Read more]

Several distinguished philosophers such as Rousseau, Hegel, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger paid serious attention to the notion of alienation. The present paper elaborates on the notion of alienation, based on Marx’s ideas, and traces it in the character of Tom Wingfield, one of the major characters in Tennessee Williams’…[Read more]

As an approach to the relationship between literature and history, new historicism has been well received in Iranian academia. This reception was concomitant with some misunderstandings. A part of the problem is the result of the elusive nature of the approach. Moreover, lack of theoretical works in Iran has led to serious problems. Even though…[Read more]

Death has always permeated human’s thoughts at all levels. This preoccupation with death is manifested in the realm of literature. John Donne is one of the artists whose obsession with death is universally recognized. The contemporary Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri in some of his poems employs the subject, too. Unlike Donne, Sepehri is not known a…[Read more]

Many similar subjects can be traced in world literature; among them is nature since it belongs to man/nature binary opposition. The American poet and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) employs nature in his works. Throughout his works, the American writer discusses the affinity between man and nature, emphasizing how man takes advantage…[Read more]

روسیه از کشورهای باسابقه در رشتۀ ادبیات تطبیقی است. از دستاوردهای
نظریتطبیقگران روس می‏توان به نظریۀ بوطیقای تاریخیِ وسلوفسکی اشاره کرد. ادبیات تطبیقی، که از قرن نوزدهم در این کشور آغاز شده بود، پابه‏پای دیگر کشورهای صاحب‏نام در این رشته پیش می‏رفت، اما به‌تدریج با آن کشورها فاصله پیدا کرد. ریشۀ این عقب‏ماندگی را می‏توان در ادبیات سیاست‏زدۀ این…[Read more]

Numerous studies have tried to elucidate the relationship between Emerson and Hafez. While most of these studies laid emphasis on influence of Hafez on Emerson and others on similarity and/or infatuation, they left untouched some vital historical aspects of this relationship. Taking into consideration the political and literary discourses of…[Read more]

One of the problems in the works done in the field of classical Persian texts is the lack of novelty. What are the reasons behind that? It has nothing to do with the texts, but to the repetitive application of the same traditional approaches to the texts. To solve the problem one can use the newer approaches such as new historicism. Since new…[Read more]

The origin of comparative literature in Iranian academia goes back to Fatimah Sayyah (1902-1947), whose early death at the age of forty-five brought an end to an era. The seeds of the discipline remained dormant until the beginning of the new millennium, when a narrow nationalistic idea of comparative literature supported Iranian policy makers’ h…[Read more]

در پژوهش¬های متعدد، ارتباط میان حافظ و امرسن بررسی و در این زمینه، بیشتر بر تأثیر حافظ بر امرسن و گاه شباهت میان آن‌دو یا شیفتگی امرسن به حافظ تأکید شده است؛ اما جنبه¬های تاریخی این ارتباط و چرایی آن بررسی نشده است. توجه به آمریکای قرن نوزدهم، جنبش¬ها و گفتمان¬های سیاسی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی این کشور، پژوهش حاضر را به نتایجی روشنگر رهنمون می¬شود.…[Read more]