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Al-Muttalibi, Aziz Yousif – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Deconstruction, as a critical theory, maintains that language is a system of signs and, more precisely, a system of oppositions, differences and contradictions. Accordingly, the theory is operative in the sense that meanings are ultimately, unstable, and that a text, any text, contradicts, dismantles and even destroys itself. Hence, literary texts…
Descriptors: Poetry, Poets, Literary Criticism, Critical Theory
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Rezvani, Saeid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Shamlu belongs to the few poets of the modern Persian poetry, who can be called neoclassical, namely, those whose work has a distinctive character and who are influential in the history of modern Persian literature. These special characteristics of Shamlu's poetic features together with his socio-cultural and political vision as manifested in his…
Descriptors: Poetry, Humanism, Indo European Languages, Innovation
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Alareer, Refaat; Omar, Noritah; Kaur, Hardev – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
While conventional critics seek the comic aspect of parody, modernist critics credit parody with questioning mainstream literary trends and subverting literary production. For instance, Mikhail Bakhtin believes in parody's power to create "a decrowning double" by turning the official worldview up-side-down. For experimental poets like…
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Parody, Literary Styles
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Kuriakose, John – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" is a pilgrimage in quest of an answer to the problem of desire--universal as well as personal--especially deviant sexuality, immoral behavior and their consequences. The traditional tags on the poem such as "a poem about Europe" and a poem about the "disillusionment of a generation" serve…
Descriptors: Poetry, Poets, Twentieth Century Literature, Literature Appreciation
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Bordbar, Maryam; Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Although Khayyam is one of the Persian poets whose school of thought and poems are studied the most, there is hardly a research in which his intellectual system is explained and made clear via a linguistic framework. In this paper one of the most debatable matters which is "Obligation" versus "Free Will" is dealt with by using…
Descriptors: Poetry, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Incidence