Mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki, Fazl Allah Khodadadi, Yousof Afsharnia,
Volume 6, Issue 17 (4-2013)
Abstract
Grotesque as a form of art existed since the early period of Christianity in Roman Culture when the human, the animal and the plant were mixed together ina single painting. Indeed the grotesque is the manifestation of the world distracted and alienated, that is, to see the familiarworld as terrifying or ridiculous or both.In this genre the artist tries to convey to his audience the two conflicting feelings of fear and joy simultaneously. Hyperbole, dissonance, and absurdity are some of the important elements of the grotesque. One of the forms of the grotesque is the story. Thisresearch attempts in a descriptive-analytical method to study the grotesque in Iranian and foreign novels and show their differences in this regard.
Afsaneh Saadati, Safoora Saadati, Mohsen Mohammadi Fesharaki,
Volume 8, Issue 20 (8-2021)
Abstract
Plants have an important place in Rumi’s meaningful mind, and the narratives developed using plant knowledge in Masnavi incorporate a new educational strategy that Rumi adopted to cultivate himself and his audience. In this research, which was carried out using the descriptive-analytical method, plant topics and knowledge were extracted from all six books of Masnavi and then the data was divided into two parts: physical (material) and metaphysical (immaterial): Rumi’s approach to plants in these two parts is descriptive, sometimes material and formal, and corresponds to the current agricultural science and sometimes a tool at the service of spiritual teachings. This research shows, on the one hand, Rumi’s mystical discourse on plants as a manifestation of God, and on the other hand, it shows the poet’s taste for using the literary devices to embellish and articulate speech. Rumi’s knowledge of the name and morphology of plants and their medicinal and therapeutic properties; various types of fruits, cereals, vegetables, and legumes; horticultural terms and gardening methods; the cultivation and fertilization practices increase the notion that he had access and probably read encyclopedic books such as Bundahishn, Alabniyah an Haqaeq alAdwiyah, etc. Among the factors that can be considered as deep structure to the abundance of these terms are Rumi’s naturalism and the geographic location of his residence and the influence of his father Bahaedin’s spiritual teachings.
