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Ghena, Hana Khlaif – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper aims at exploring the exilic experience of the Iraqi poet, Adnan Al-Sayegh whose involuntarily departure from his homeland, Iraq, in the early 1990s made him suffer a strong sense of estrangement, nostalgia, self-fragmentation and disconnection. The paper is divided into three sections and a conclusion. Section one sheds light on the…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Immigration, Psychological Patterns
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Sultana, Sharmin; Sarwar, Nadia – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper is going to argue that the selected poems of renowned Indian poet Kamala Das are inclined to relocate both feminine and masculine identity through the politicized representation of body. Kamala Das' representation of body in her poems has always been viewed as a medium of re-historicizing the pain, sufferings, and psychological trauma…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Femininity
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Solati, Bahman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Looking through the eyes of Persian culture, we see that man is not all noetic; he is not driven by intellect or consistent in his use of reason. On the contrary, he is most moved by emotion. A perfect example: Persian philosophy is most commonly uttered in both poetry and prose. This is, I believe, where the brilliance of Persians rests, in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Influences
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Hosian, Mohammad Akbar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer was born and bred in Sweden, a remarkably Scandinavian country. Topographically, Scandinavian countries are locations of extreme cold and snowing. This distinguishing climatic condition has had a dominant influence and impact on almost all Scandinavian art and literature, including Tomas Tranströmer's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Poets, Climate, Content Analysis
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Amrita; Anisha – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Mira Bai, a saint-poet of North India is an important figure in medieval Hindi literature. Her "bhajan"-s (songs) profoundly represent the transforming of consciousness working through conceptual metaphors which fall in the realm of religious poetry wherein target domains are generally abstract. Since, the working of the mind is more…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Poetry, Cognitive Processes, Spiritual Development
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Koochacki, Fahime – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The rich cultural connotations behind puns and the distinctive features of the puns' form, sound and meanings pose great challenges to the translator. Furthermore, given puns' non-negligible effects in Persian literary texts, it has been the aim of the present study to analyze and measure how puns in Sa'di's Ghazals have actually been treated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Translation, English (Second Language)