A comparative Aesthetic Study of Selected Short Stories by Tow Contemporary Women Writers from Iran and Russia based on Collingwood s Expression Theory

Factors of expression and emotion are considered fixed criteria in aesthetics. Forming its approach within the American school and from the theories of Collingwood, the present article renders a study of the aesthetic effect of the factors of expressiveness, emotion, genius, and the deconstruction of the stereotypes in the following two short stories: “Center of Gravity” by the Russian writer, Victoria Tokareva, and “Zani az jens-e mes”/ “A Woman Made of Copper” by the Iranian writer, Behnaz Alipour. Regarding the same motifs in the two short stories, this study analyses the ontological views of women in two different cultures in order to show to what extent feminist views in aesthetics are in relation with the dominating cultural factors. These factors have different influences on the ideology of the characters. As a result, it seems that the Persian fiction centers on the social formation of the character while the Russian story revolves around the meaningfulness of social life.