1- Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran
2- M.A. of Comparative Literature, University of Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran
Abstract: (18264 Views)
The title of the story is the threshold to the mysterious world of the text. Thus it must be selected artistically to show the quality of the text, despite its quantity and restrictions. Sometimes, the title sheds light on the world of the text and lights the text`s whole material, but sometimes, it hides the text and the reader does not resieve any sign of it. It makes a tension in the mind of the reader to draw him/her to the text, and makes him/her to arrange his/her disturbed mind by reading the text and finding the meaning of it. This research is aims to investing ate the most important textual and extra textual factors, which are efficient in choosing the title of Sadeq Hedayat and Zakaria Tamer`s works, and study the structure and context of the titles and their relation with intra-textual and extra-textual factors that are used to hide the meaning of the text. have several res sons. Attracting the reader and closed political conditions (extra-textual factors) are the main reasons. These titles show the familiarity of the two writers with rhetorical devices. Also they are the reflection of the difficulties and hard conditions of the people`s life and the writer`s current cultures.
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- Received: 2013/08/6 | Accepted: 2013/11/6 | Published: 2014/09/23