RESEARCH BULLETIN OF ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY (HUMANITIES)
Year:2001 | Volume:11 | Issue:1-2|Papers Count:8

In the first half of the nineteenth century, following the tremendous changesin the French society,the Romantic writers grewenthusiasticinterest about the soc;ialand humaniterian affairs, and tried to express their thoughts and ideas.through the variant forms of the Rommanticnovel.Among the most leading and succesfulforms of the time, the serial novel was the foremost. It is the concern of this study, first to examine the social, political and economical factors that gave birth to, and hepled the development of, the serial novel, then to discussthe characteristicsof this genre to point.how the successwasachievedthrough ever-increasingimmediatecontact between the writer and the lower classso that the serial novel was also popularlyknown as a "litteraryrevolution" in French literature. The concludingpart shall include some of the most important. factors that brought about the decline and eventuallythe perish of the serial novel.

This study investigates the feasibility of the cloze test with native speakers of Persian. Ten 50-item cloze tests with deletion ratios ranging between two to eleven were made based on a single passage. The tests were randomly administered to 500"adult educated native speakers of Persian. Their responses were scored by both the exact-word and the acceptable-word methods. Finally, the psychometric characteristics of the tests were compared and discussed. The results indicate that the testees performance varied, though not in a predictable way, as the deletion ratio changed. On the other hand, the two scoring methods produced significantly different results. These results are compatible with those reported for c10ze with native speakers of other languages.

Amir Qoli Aminis Farhange Awam is one of the raluable works in presenting current Persian proverbs and idioms. The present article is a linguistic criticism of the work, followed by several suggestions to be considered in the possible future editions. Moreover, I have given an alpbabetic list of about 230 proverbs and idioms that he has missed,followedby a brief interpretation for each one. I have also attached a very short biographyof Amini.

Metonymyis one of the very significantdiscassionsin Rhetorics which has been discussedunder the general name of Metaphor. If it has ever been discussedindependeatly,it has been mostlywith this purpose to pave the way for a better understanding of metaphor. Todays with the development of Rhetorics, metonymyhas gained a worthy and significahtplace in literature. This essay is an a attempt to deal with the matter of metonymy as an indpendent issue and for clarifying the discassion, besides the common evampleseniployedin the literary teuts some new exampleswill be discussed and analyzed.

The article explores three stages of the acts of Artaxshir the founder. of sassanid dynasty as follows: 1-He is introduced as a powerful king whose inscriptionson the face of pars mountain and besid the burial places of Acchamanids kingsprove that he had I been trying to make his gorvernment the same as the latters by imitatingthem in manyrespects includingcenteralization of power, charisma,army,inherited kingshipextensiveborders etc. 2- He tries - in the light of the past - to show mimself as aclergyman with forseeing power who can solve anyproblem.There are some calenders,Books of ae1vicein general and Tansars letter in particular that gine testimony to this. 3- at last out of extant evidence and accordingto foregiong tansars letter he is wrapped in a legendary veil as well as introduced as a symbolof national will and a leader of wisdom and state craft.

The vulnerability to foreign exchange rate fluctuations exposes intrnational business and more specifically multinational corporation to a new source of risk namel;y foreign exchange exposure. This article seetks to investigare the ways to rationalise decision making on foreign exchange exposure management viewed from different categories of hedging philosophies and perceptions of risk. The approach can be materialized by means of a proactive policy,i.e; a policy that is neither purely protective, nor inappropriately aggressive.

Climatic change in quatemer is one of the most important problemes that some of researchers would like to know about it. There are different methods for researching, but geomorpholigists try to sort out this fenomen in respect to landforms. This articel argue about the natural historic of Zayande - Roud and generating of civilization along the banks. We can conclude that the most important features of this research are as the following. That the lake of zayande - Roud Dam is the remains of a natural lake and it has never bee part of Karon Basin (to the contrary of Oberlander hypothesis ). As the result of the breakeag of this lake the permanent Zayande - Roud ~iver imerged on along its bank the first signs of civilization spring up.

Presently, in some countries of the world like Iran, where quantitative and qualitative limitation of water resources, is one of the main obstacles in access to sustainable development programs goals, PEPs through cloud seeding are preformed in order to reduce and resolve the environmental problems. Although the main part of the site-selection studies which are the scientific base for PEPs is climatology of clouds and precipitation, winds and upper air currents in each type of weather have special characteristics in standard levels of the atmosphere, and in each synoptic and thermodynamic atmospheric conditions they are the important indicator of air situation such as stability, instability, and so on. So climatological study of these parameters can provide necessary information for PEPs planners. In this research using the Isfahan synoptic and upper air stations and through drawing the wind roses, we have firstly studied wind speed and direction in atmospheric standard levels (500, 700 Hpa and surface), and then the monthly distribution of mean percent occurrence of above winds in 16 different directions. Finally, through classifying winds into two groups, light and fast winds, we have studied their speed. As a result, we have shown that in the rainy periods the winds and upper air currents can bring the necessary humidity and energy for seedable cloud formation and precipitation occurence in the above mentioned basin.