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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1987-2002, June 2026.Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
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A Comparative Study of Story and Narrative Elements in Classical and Contemporary Persian Narrative Ghazal [PDF]
Literary ArtsIn the classic Persian narrative ghazals, in addition to expressing romantic issues, there is also a strong presence in mysticism, and examples of it can be seen in the Attar and Rumi’s divan. In contemporary Persian poetry, poets such as Simin Behbahani
Mahdi Rostami, Alimohammad Mahmoudi
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A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles’ Defense of the Poetic Style of Nimā Yūshij [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیThis article aims to indicate how Akhavān-Sāles- the greatest defender of Nimāei poetry- introduced Nimāei poetry as the superior poetry and norm against the rival and sometimes contradictory poetic currents of his period.
Kulthum Miriasl
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Ghalib Dehlavi’s Ghazals Beyond the Orient [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2016 The aim of this study is to demonstrate why and how the Persian classical poetic form Ghazal has changed into a commonly used literary genre in North America during the last thirty years of the twentieth century.
Neda Alizadeh Kashani
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Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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A Comparative Study of Kurdish and Persian Literature on Grounds of Prosody and Meter
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015 In terms of scope and diversity of topic as well as historical antiquity, literature of the Middle East is outstanding among world literatures, and Persian literature, in particular, has acquired a special reputation in this regard.
Seyed As’ad Sheikh Ahmadi
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CRISIS OF READER IN THE PERSIAN POETRY OF THE NINETIES WITH EMPHASIS ON RHETORICAL-LINGUISTIC REASONS [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2017 In the history of the Iran contemporary literature, the flow of poetry, known as the 70s, has a special place. Faces such as Ali Abdul Razaei, Mehrdad Fallah, Behzad Khayat, On one hand , and Reza Baraheni and his students, on the other hand, New ...
Baloo Farzad A., Bafekr Fateme H.
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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