Nasir Ahmad Arian

Nasir Ahmad Arian is an assistant teaching professor of Persian language at Penn State University. He has also taught Persian language and literature at Al-Beruni University in Afghanistan for 12 years. Arian completed his graduate studies in Persian language and literature at Allameh Tabataba’i and Shiraz Universities in Iran. His dissertation, “A Semiotic Approach to the Analysis of the Discursive Metamorphosis of Six Distinctive Novels of 80s &90s in Afghanistan,” is a critical study of the Persian fiction in Afghanistan. He has published 6 Books and tens of academic articles on Persian literature in authentic academic journals in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and India. His research interest is semiotics and narratology in Persian literature. Some of his articles are here. 

Contributions

Narrative as a Rhetorical Device in Līmah Āfshīd’s “The Old Woman”

Introduction This article analyzes the deployment of multiple genres, or poly-generic capacity, and particularly the use of narrative games as…