A Critical Review on the Book Tazkirat Al-Awliya by Masoumeh Amirkhanlou

“…The publication and textual criticism of Attar of Nishapur’s “Tazkerat al-Awliya”, which is considered as one of the most important texts in Persian prose, was done in 1398 by Dr. Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani. …”
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Hellenic Language and Thought in Pre-Conquest England by Eleni Ponirakis

“…This paper will outline the evidence for the use of Greek language in a variety of contexts, including a charm for the staunching of blood, and it will examine the extent of the influence of Greek patristic thinking in Old English texts including both clerical prose and secular poetry.…”
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A Critique on the Book Sociological Research in Modern Persian Fiction and the Pathology of its Translation by Ghodsieh Rezvanian

“…The book Sociological Research in Modern Persian Fiction is the translation of the book A Study of Recent Persian Prose Fiction with Special Reference to the Social Background written by Reza Navabpour, which is one of the most accurate books on the analysis of contemporary Iranian fiction. …”
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Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Flora Valadié

“…Yet the paradigm of the series maintains a linearity Powers’ prose foregoes: the historical event, just like the artifact, is to be perceived in terms of solid geometry and intersection of planes, a cross between “essayistic firmness” and “the invitation of fiction” that result in a three-dimensional object which the series fails to create.…”
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Geoffrey Hill as Lord of Limit: the Kenosis as a Theological Context of his Poetry and Thought by Adrian Grafe

“…L’hymne kénotique pré-paulinienne (cf l’épître aux Philippiens, 2: 5-11) est un contexte pertinent pour situer la poésie et la poétique de Hill. Et la poésie et la prose de Hill montrent qu’il réfléchit sur cette notion (la kénose) depuis au moins les sonnets de « Lachrimae » (1978) ; en passant par le titre et certains aspects du contenu de l’ouvrage critique The Lords of Limit (1984), ainsi que par l’appendice rédigé pour Christ : The Self-Emptying of God (1997) de Lucien Richard, jusqu’à The Triumph of Love (1998) et au-delà. …”
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Dans la bibliothèque de Des Esseintes : Flaubert et Mallarmé by Judit Maár

“…For Flaubert, our main corpus will be Madame Bovary, for Mallarmé, it will be the poem published in gratitude to Huysmans, Prose pour Des Esseintes. This choice may be surprising: why compare the novel traditionally – and possibly mistakenly – considered to be a first masterpiece of realism, and the poem taken for one of the most enigmatic texts of symbolism? …”
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Lithuanian DP book connection with Latvian and Estonian DP in West Europe in 1945-1952 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“…., a book about the Meerback Baltic DP camp, the Vorarlberg DP camp Baltic almanac "Lootus-Ceritas-Viltis," a collection of Baltic writers' prose in German, a map of the three Baltic states, and others). …”
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A Descriptive -Analytical View at the Linguistic Features of the Book Entitled Rotbat Al Hayat Based on the Speech Act Theory by Gholamreza Salemian, Majid Rastande

“…In addition to the verbal and spiritual terms, there are some extrinsic factors (the use of non-adjectives, extra combinations, synonyms, total infinitesimals, infinitive, continuity trivial verbs with "simple mania +", prepositions, adjectives, "A" and "and" and "+" but ") and syntactic factors (simple language context, short sentences, vocabulary position, deletion, repetition, queries and turning points) have created a specific song in the prose of the book. In this paper, the linguistic coordinates of this book (with an emphasis on musical elements) have been introduced on the basis of the speech act and discourse analysis.…”
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Swift's Alberti? The Geometrical Comedy of Gulliver's Travels by Selena Özbas

“…Starting with a specific reference to Momus in Puppet-Show, it will be maintained that Swift refers to an earlier tradition of criticism and transfers it to his prose writing. To explore this point, the article will draw on the Italian Renaissance humanist, satirist, and architect Leon Battista Alberti’s Momus and De Pictura. …”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…Detailed information about her memories of the ‘world of sound’—also the impact that deafness had on her life—can be found in her hybrid prose. Blending different genres and text forms, Letter to the Deaf (1834), the journal article ‘Deaf Mutes’ (1854) and her two-volume Autobiography (1855–1877) are clear on her determination to use her most painful experiences to promote social change. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Time and Narrative and a Brief Overview of the Term “Récit/ Narrative” by Mohammad Ragheb

“…Apart from other problems, the translator's prose lacks sufficient dynamic and fluency to convey Ricoeur's concepts; her obsession with translation and syntactic inflexibility has made the book a difficult work. …”
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Special Manifestations of Spoken Language in Bahr al-Ansāb (a Book about the Family of Ahmad-e Jām-e Zhende Pil) by Mahmood Nadimi Harandi

“…It also provides information about the familial links, several male and females names common in that era, as well as geographical names related to the area of Jam. In many places, the prose of Bahr al-Ansāb is close to spoken language and is written in a colloquial tone. …”
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A Critical Analysis of Handbook of College Teaching by Hossein Abdollahi

“…The main positive points of the book are simple and fluent prose, expressing the objectives of the book, using simple and technical terms, presenting conceptual prerequisites, expressing the disadvantages and benefits of teaching methods. …”
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Persephone by Laure-Hélène ANTHONY-GERROLDT

“…The poem is composed of varying stanza forms and rhythms mixed with prose and using motifs and colours that also occur in other poems of the collection to create echoes within the piece. …”
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Code switching and the so-called “assimilation narrative” by Tamás Vraukó

“…In the paper examples are provided from Hispanic-American literature (Mexican-American, Puerto Rican and Dominican), across a range of genres from prose through drama to poetry, and also, examples are discussed when the author does in fact seek assimilation, as well as stories in which neither assimilation, nor integration is successful. …”
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„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller by Estera Głuszko-Boczoń

“…This article also explores the aesthetics of ugliness which affects the understanding of the role of cities in Herta Müllerʼs prose, and analyzes important urban symbols such as asphalt, apartment blocks, parks and the flora and fauna characteristic of communist cities. …”
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A Critique on the Book “Kelileh and Demneh” Edited by Ayatollah Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli by Hadi Akbarzadeh

“…“Kelileh va Demneh”, translated by Abul Maali Nasrullah bin Muhammad Munshi, is one of the valuable and lasting works of Persian prose of the 6th century, which has been edited and published many times in Iran and abroad. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book Principles of Parthian History by Farshid Naderi

“…In the field of translation, in addition to the difficult and sometimes formal prose of the translator and some errors in the names of the persons, some vague equations as well as the incorrect chronology of events, the book receives an acceptable score.…”
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Miejska przestrzeń pamięci (na podstawie wybranych utworów Herkusa Kunčiusa, Ričardasa Gavelisa, Grigorija Kanowicza) by Walentyna Krupowies

“…A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. …”
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A New Look at the Structure of Genitive and Attributive Similes with a Special Emphasis on Hafez’s Poems by Meysam Hajipour, Enayatollah Mahmoodi

“…Simile is one of the most important and useable fictional elements in prose and poem. This fictional element has been the poets’ and educators’ means to show their artistic skills in various ways. …”
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