International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013

  • Development of the Musical Thinking of the Beginner Pianists

    Krasimira Georgieva Fileva-Ruseva

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 26-30
    Received: Oct. 09, 2013
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    Published: Nov. 10, 2013
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    Abstract: Thinking is manifested by the speech. Through the semantic content of the speech entities, interactions, interdependencies, etc. are expressed. These complex interrelationships, as a product of the human thinking in general, exist in the different languages. Therefore, the spoken language can be translated from one language to another, preserving a... Show More
  • Hafez’s Hermeneutic Approach toward the Formation of a Character Named Rend

    Mohammadreza Zaman Ahmadi

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 31-35
    Received: Oct. 24, 2013
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    Published: Nov. 20, 2013
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    Abstract: The text makes an interaction between the writer and the reader, the reader’s understanding of a text in different historical periods is one of the methods used to interpret a text in the hermeneutic approach. Iranian mystic literature serves as cradle for the complexity and mysterious nature of textual meaning(s). Hafez, the great Persian sonnetee... Show More
  • Alienation in Peter Shaffer's the Royal Hunt of the Sun under Lacan's View Point

    Fatemeh Azizi Mohammdi, Mahbobe Torkamani

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 36-40
    Received: Nov. 09, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 10, 2013
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    Abstract: This paper is a study on analysis of alienation in selected work of literature by Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun under the view of Lacan. Through analyzing Alienation elements namely the other, identity and desire experienced by the main characters both protagonists and antagonist, this paper attempted to prove that how the feeling of be... Show More
  • Cultivation of MTI Students’ Awareness of the Translator’s Subjectivity in Literary Translation

    Qin Fangfang

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 41-46
    Received: Nov. 18, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 20, 2013
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    Abstract: Literary translation is a kind of artistic recreation. Only by exercising his/her artistic talent and subjectivity, can the translator produce a translation which can ravel the original work. In literary translation, the translator’s subjectivity is inevitable and indispensable as well. So it is essential for MTI students to be fully aware of the t... Show More
  • Chitra and Savitri as Epitomes of Women Empowerment: A Study in Comparison

    Anupamratanshanker Ramashanker Nagar, Ketki Nareshprasad Pandya

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 47-54
    Received: Nov. 30, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 20, 2013
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    Abstract: This paper proposes to discuss the conceptual issues related to Women Empowerment as developed in the characters of Chitra and Savitri. Following a brief critique of their human development, both Chitra and Savitri would stand out as fine illustrations (models) of women empowerment particularly in the post-modern context where one more than often d... Show More
  • The Castle: The Panoptical Surveillance

    Afrouz Yari, Shahram Afrougheh

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 55-58
    Received: Nov. 30, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 30, 2013
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    Abstract: This article aims to explore the issue of Franz Kafka’s The Castle (1922) throughout the idea of Foucauldian Panopticon, which portrays a world seemingly controlled by whimsical leaders and absurd rules. This implication is a poached through the figure of the power. It is believed that Franz Kafka’s novel is viewed as an original reflection on the ... Show More
  • The Trial: A Bureaucratic System in Zizek’s View

    Ismaeil jangizahy, Shahram Afrougheh

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 59-62
    Received: Nov. 30, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 30, 2013
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    Abstract: In this paper we engage with the bureaucratic project from Zizek’s view in The Trial by Kafka. Kafka has given an exaggerated, fantastic and subjectively distorted expression to modern bureaucracy and the fate of the individual within it. The first discourse is bureaucracy expressed through post-bureaucratic discourses which very much define the ma... Show More
  • Franz Kafka’s The Castle: A Foucauldian Reading

    Afrouz Yari, Shahram Afrougheh

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2013
    Pages: 63-67
    Received: Nov. 30, 2013
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    Published: Dec. 30, 2013
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    Abstract: This study detects the notion of “power” in The Castle by Franz Kafka throughout the idea of Foucauldian hierarchy, oppression, power, knowledge and resistance. Kafka in this novel shows man’s futile attempts to overcome the powerful impact of industrialism and its domination over man’s life. The Castle is a societal network and shows the character... Show More