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Volume 5, Issue 3 (12-2017)
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Since the literary language disrupts mimetic and common framework, the relationship between imagination and reality should be featured. The richness of imaginative representations is also in the light of the literary representation. The literary representation of a place creates another place in the mind and some non-visible virtual spaces are activated. Figures of speech show the literary characteristics of architecture, as well as dialectical relationship between real and imaginary architectural space. So the vocabulary of emotion and the experience of the "I" of several French authors which are selected from the eighteenth century onwards, faced with Iran's architectural spaces will be studied; because, through the different perceptions of subjects, these spaces expand in the literary world. Also, the entrance of time into the world of discourse, cause confusion with the place and the production of meaning.The specification of the relationship between the architecture and the subject, involves examining the space-time architecture in the works of the selected authors. Thus, the need to strive to preserve aesthetic beauty is highlighted, and the plan for the reconstruction of some architectural spaces is to be obtained beyond this reading. This study is aimed at building a symbolic network of Iranian architectural space. Explore of beyond the symbolic architectural spaces reveals the authors' personal myth, and it brings a new identity to the world of work and the architectural spaces in which it flows. Such a study requires a reliance on geocriticism and documentary method, with descriptive-analytic processing.
Leila Seydghasem, Hamideh Noohpisheh,
Volume 9, Issue 33 (5-2016)
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Today the interdisciplinary studies have very much influenced the dynamics of the literary criticism. The main goal of our paper is to introduce the “Literary Geography” as a type of literary criticism. As the name implies, this inter-discipline is the result of the interaction of geography and literature, and its emergence is directly related to the importance of the concept of “space” and “place” in the humanities. From the 1990s space and place studies have been a dominant trend in the humanities, which eventually resulted in the birth of the field of “Literary Geography” with its various branches such as “Geocriticism,” “literary tourism,” and “literary cartography.” In this study, the theoretical basics of Literary Geography are introduced, relying on the concept of space and place. Furthermore, we have introduced some important related subfields and their use and current position in the academic studies. Among these branches, “literary cartography,” as a prerequisite for literary geography, is emphasized more than the other branches. Literary Geography provides an apt ground for analyzing different aspects of poetry and fiction. The collected data in Literary Geography can be instrumental in the literary studies and sociology of literature. In fact, geographic data have an important function in literature even though most literary critics usually overlook them.
Neda Azimi, Bahman Namvarmotlagh, Hasan Bolkhari Ghehi, Nasrin Dokht Khattat,
Volume 13, Issue 51 (8-2020)
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Karbala has been a multiple and dynamic space and so the writers’ perspective on it was multiple and dynamic as well. Geocriticism is one of the new interdisciplinary approaches that focuses on space in postmodern era. Geocriticism investigates the relation between subject and space and studies the geographical space and the imaginary space of literary texts. The current study was aimed at investigating the effect of space stratification on readers in a selected number of poems. Such stratification was influenced by time as well, creating different layers of texts in space. The researchers tried to unfold the space-time layers in these poems that shaped the space of Karbala, based on the spatiotemporality principle of Westphal theory. The results indicated that poets would identify themselves with these layers of space, as they unveil the dialectic between the self and the other. Moreover, in this study the viewpoint of the Christian poet (exogenous) was studied against the Muslim poet (endogenous), by applying multifocalization principle of Westphalian theory. The principle focuses on different points of views being endogenous, exogenous and allogenous. The study reveals the convergence of selected poets’ perspectives

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