International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 5, Issue 6, November 2017

  • The Other of Black People in If Beale Street Could Talk

    Zhang Jing

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, November 2017
    Pages: 77-82
    Received: 15 September 2017
    Accepted: 28 September 2017
    Published: 08 November 2017
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    Abstract: If Beale Street Could Talk, a novel composed by James Baldwin, is mainly concerned with issues of the entrenched racial discrimination in American society. It discloses a poignant and cruel fact that black people are regarded as second-class citizens who do not possess equal rights as whites do in the society dominated by white supremacy. The thesi... Show More
  • Treatises Used by Nude Painting Students at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in the ‘Turn of the Century’

    Ana Mafalda Cardeira

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, November 2017
    Pages: 83-88
    Received: 09 November 2017
    Accepted: 15 November 2017
    Published: 01 December 2017
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    Abstract: This paper research on the existing treatises on nude painting at the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon in the ‘turn of the century’. The collection of all bibliography is presented with a summary of its content and importance to the young painting students with the aim of understanding the treatises that these students used and can represent an influe... Show More
  • An Intertextual Study of Nizami’s Poetry and Behzad’s Painting in “Chinese and Roman Painters’ Debate” Tale

    Zohreh Hosseinabadi, Zahra Pakzad, Mehdi Mohammadzadeh

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 6, November 2017
    Pages: 89-96
    Received: 17 November 2017
    Accepted: 04 December 2017
    Published: 25 December 2017
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    Abstract: One of the brightest schools of painting was Herat School from whose greatest artist, Behzad, beautiful paintings have remained. Some of these paintings are associated with poetry and literature and reflect verbal narratives. Using Gérard Genette intertextuality approach, the present study investigates one of the paintings which exists in both verb... Show More