Journal information

• Owner: University of Mazandaran
• Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Farzad Balu, Associate Professor, University of Mazandaran
• Responsible Manager: Dr. Shahram Ahmadi, Assistant Professor, University of Mazandaran
• Scientific & Executive Manager: Dr. Mostafa Mirdar Rezaei, Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Guilan
• Website Manager: Eng. Mahsa Eslami
• Copyeditor: Dr. Batoul Mahdavi

• Journal language: Persian (abstracts: Persian and English)
• Publication frequency: Semiannual
• Article lengths: full articles, short articles, reviews
• Scope: Literature and Philosophy
• Place of publication: Babolsar, Iran
• Year of first issue: 1402
• Open access status: Open and free to read
• Average peer-review time: 2 months
• Peer-review type: Double-blind
• Article format: PDF
• Citation style: APA
• Article processing charge: (stated as) free

Scope and Domains (Areas accepted by the journal)

The primary focus of Literary-Philosophical Research is the interaction between literature and philosophers and philosophical themes in literature (philosophical literature), as well as philosophical approaches to issues raised by literature (philosophy of literature). Specific scopes of the journal include the following:

• Literature and philosophy;
• The role of philosophers and philosophical positions in their affirmative or critical engagement with poetry (and literature) in the history of Western thought (from the pre-Socratics to the contemporary period) and Eastern thought (Islamic and Persian);
• Philosophers and mimesis theory;
• Various Western aesthetic traditions (Platonic, Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, Kantian, Hegelian, Schillerian, Schlegelian, Nietzschean, Heideggerian, Gadamerian, Adornian, etc.) and corresponding Eastern traditions; aesthetic analyses of classical or modern literary works;
• Philosophy of language movements (Austin, Searle, etc.) and rhetorical and literary analyses of texts;
• Analytic philosophy traditions (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein) and their relation to literary texts;
• Continental philosophy movements (Husserl, Heidegger, etc.) and their relation to textual analysis;
• Philosophical and literary deconstruction movements (French, e.g., Derrida; and American, e.g., de Man and others) and textual analysis.
• Philosophical foundations of literary theories;
• Philosophical foundations of literary criticism;
• Philosophical foundations of literary schools;
• Phenomenological analyses of literary texts (Husserlian, Heideggerian, Sartrean approaches, etc.);
• Philosophy, political philosophers, and literature;
• Philosophy, moral philosophers, and readings of classical and modern texts;
• Hermeneutical movements and literature, including: romantic hermeneutics (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Betti, Hirsch), philosophical hermeneutics (Gadamer — Ricoeur), critical hermeneutics, literary hermeneutics (Iser, Jauss, etc.), and interpretive traditions in the Islamic and Iranian world;
• And, comparative literature and philosophy.

• Philosophy of literature
• Questions concerning the nature and ontology of literature and the literary work;
• Philosophical criteria for recognizing authentic and canonical works;
• Literature as art;
• The institutional and existential aspects of a literary work;
• Philosophical reflections on the centrality of author, reader, or text in literary interpretation;
• Fundamental principles of reading literary works;
• Boundaries between fiction and non-fiction;
• The relationship between literature, truth, and falsehood, etc.