نشریه مطالعات ادبیات تطبیقی
پیاپی 33 (بهار 1394)

One of the growth and arrogance indicators in every science is to hold special conferences especially in the academic communities. The first conference on comparative literature history took place in 1878in Paris. There is no association or conference in Iran in the field of comparative literature or if there is any, it seems that it is not active. The mentioned field does not have a background more than seven decades (since 1938); it was late 70s that universities started to hold such conferences with the Comparative Literature subject. The present article studies the pathology of the held conferences in this major.

Comparative literature discusses the general links between world literature & expresses original elements of each nation by penetrating the different aspects of literature in order to find out foreign elements importance and every nation's literature characteristics. Colors in form of comparative, have not been analyzed and compared in Homer and Shahname. Accordingly, the present paper surveys the different applied colors in two mentioned epics in comparative method to obtain cognition and the importance of color in two different cultures in order to identify the application share of this fundamental element (color) in two different time and era.

Basically lexicography is preparation and presentation of a set of words and lexicon which is done based on linguistic principals. Comparative study of Asadi Toosi's dictionary and Ahmed Al Ain Farahidi's in Arabic language as the first dictionaries which have common influence based on their cultural, social, political and religious background.

Two Iranian scholars, Molana and Hafiz had thought about individual and social aspects of human rather than other western scholars and they expressed these thoughts by artist language. One of the abovementioned thinking fields is freedom and authority of human which is known as most important human nature reality, as the caliph of God on Earth. the present paper - in addition to determine importance of freedom in works and thoughts of Hafiz and Molana - tries to investigate similarities and dissimilarities among their theories and thoughts in different aspects of human existence from humanistic point of view in west. It also attempts to observe and analyze scholar's thoughts by applying Hafiz and Molana poems from comparative point of view.

The present paper attempts to know Iran and America's fiction literature much better. The purpose is to express the narrative structure of Hedayat and Faulkner's short stories. Three short stories (Three drops of blood, Dash Akol, stray dog) by Hedayat and three (a rose for Emily, The dry September, Barn burning) by Faulkner are chosen. Then the story elements of fictionalize which were interested by Faulkner and Hedayat have been surveyed. The present article also studies Faulkner and Hedayat's method in characterization, dialogue, point of view, intra – text and narration.

The present article tries to have a comparative study on love (concept) in some Sohrab Sepehri – Iranian contemporary poet - and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - 19th century poet – poetries. What makes this article attractive is that both poets were influenced by Holy Books (Quran and Bible), application of metaphors and similes by inspiring from nature, following the similar poetic patterns and … in spite of different times and places and nevertheless the cultural differences and the same age – 51year old.

Shafie’ Kadkani and Adonis are modernist contemporary poets who have similar spirits and their poetry language is close to each other. Both were grown in villages and nature. Both were deeply interested in classic literature and poetry and composed in the same style and then tended to modern poetry. Shafie’- Iranian contemporary poet - and Adonis – Arabian contemporary poet - talk about humanistic and social poetry by nature. They express their thoughts and perceptions and beautiful universal phenomena attractively and pleasantly. The present article attempts to study common myths in these two poets’ poetries.

Mystical Persian texts – especially the ones belong to fifth and sixth centuries – for different reasons prepared the field that the sin and fall myths of Adam have the most frequencies beside the elements such as human will, cognition freedom and force. The present article studies and analyzes the concept of Fall and Sin in four fields and surveys the most important similarities and dissimilarities of different Gnostics such as Ahmad Ghazzali, Einol Ghozat Hamedani and ….