تصوير خيال

Imaginary Image

Image is one of the basic and variously-used expression in literary criticism. This article has focused on the essence of image in literature. The lexical concept of this term in English language and its Farsi equivalence has been stated. Then, some famous definitions of image has been investigated. Also, image has been divided into lexical image and imaginary image. After defining and explaining each of them, we have distinguished between imagination in surface and image of depth. We have investigated the issue of image change in history of literature. Along with the change in horizon of recognition of beauty and mental-social approach in each period, image has also gone through several changes. The traditional eloquence has not been able to get along with image change and provide the means of analysis for the images of formalism and modernism.