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A Corpus Analysis of ‘Death’ and ‘Life’ Metaphorical Expressions Based on Forough Farrokhzad’s Persian Poetry Book [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2019
Many inquiries of cognitive linguistics represented that conceptual metaphors have played a substantial role in the conceptual system of human. Metaphors are frequently grounded in culture and can thus answer as a beneficent source for the consideration of cultural ideas alluded in language. The present study attended the distribution of death and life
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Shirin Neshat: A Contemporary Orientalist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis analyzes Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah photographs by exploring key socio-political events that have shaped Iranian history since the reign of Cyrus the Great, ca. 600 B.C.
Khosravi, Mojgan
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The Assessment of Defamiliarization in Forough Farrokhzad’s Poetry

open access: yes
Defamiliarization is a literary device which has been coined by Shkolvsky and its aim is to move readers to see familiar things in an unfamiliar way. Shkolvsky argues that defamiliarization creates a ‘vision’ of the object instead of serving as a means for knowing it, and it is exactly what Forough Farrokhzad (1935-1967), the Iranian modern poet ...
Esmaeili, Zahra, Ebrahimi, Shima
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The nature of identity: Ecofeminism, women\u27s poetry, and reclaiming power through the recognition of parallel oppressions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The presence of Ecofeminism in women\u27s poetry can empower women today who engage in feminist activism. The systematic oppression experienced by women is paralleled by the destruction inflicted upon nature (including animals).
Dailey, Jessica
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Goldfish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Goldfish is a film about Maryam, an 8- or 9-year-old girl whose dream is to pursue her artistic talent of painting. She encounters a problem due to the strict influence of her mother, who prevents her from fully pursuing her dreams.
Farahzadi, Maryam
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Negotiating the veil and identity in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Leila Aboulela‟s novel, Minaret (2005), provides authentic and rich content to explore the Muslim Arab woman‟s struggle over creating a modern yet religiously traditional identity.
Ida Baizura Bahar,   +1 more
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Poetry as a Sexual-textual Site of Transgression: Some Insights into the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Forough Farrokhzad

open access: yesSpectrum, 2022
This paper explores different representations of female sexuality portrayed in the poetry of a nineteenth-century American poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and a twentieth-century Iranian poet, Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967). Their poetry has been largely characterized by an assertion of female sexuality and its impact on female creativity.
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Different worlds a comparaison of love poems by Dorothy Livesay (Canada, 1909-96) and by Forugh Farrokhzad (Iran, 1935-67) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The focus of this study is to compare works by the Canadian poet Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) and by the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967). Although Farrokhzad and Livesay were from different generations, their love poems emerged around the same ...
Roostaee, Amir Hossein
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Playing against the rhythm: the intersection of gender and performative space in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, women have been legally prohibited from singing or playing a musical instrument solo in public. The government has sought to control women’s performative space by using concepts of permissibility and ideological ...
Rafei, Leila
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A Comparative Study of the Human-Nature Relationship in The Fate of Fausto and I’ll Sow My Hands in the Garden [PDF]

open access: yes
This article contends that the representation of human-nature relationship in children’s literature can map onto its gender politics through a comparative study of multimodal dynamics of Irish and Persian picturebooks.
Zekavat, Massih
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