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Javad Dehghanian, Mohammad Khosravi Shakib, Mahnaz Tabiatboland,
Volume 29, Issue 91 (12-2021)
Abstract
If we admit that culture is a kind of text, we must inevitably accept that “The History of Jahāngushā” is a text that is the point of contact of different ideologies, each of which forms a part of Iranian identity and culture. Contrary to formalist approaches, an attempt has been made here to revisit the text based on those approaches of literary criticism that read the text in a dialectical and interactive connection with the material contexts of its production. Therefore, first, the ideologies in the text are introduced and analyzed, and after determining their role in shaping the ideological system of the History of Jahāngushā, their discourse contradictions are revealed, and finally, the impact of these ideologies on the text is discussed. Various factors such as historical context, social, cultural, and ideological institutions have been influential in the composition of this text and its linguistic form. It seems that more than the linguistic and expressive complexities, it is the discoursal, ideological, and cultural contradictions that have caused confusion and complexity of the text. Analyzing and retrieving the ideological currents of the text not only explains the reasons for its different readings but also helps the reader to reach a new and different judgment of the literary, historical, and cultural aspects of the text.
Mohammad Khosravi Shakib,
Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
Abstract
“Collective mobilization” is one of the most widely used models in the field of contemporary political sociology, which makes it possible to study and analyze the internal mechanisms governing social movements, revolutions, and political unrest. In the present study, the narrative of “Birds of the World” in Manṭeq-al-Tayr as well as the story of “Torquate Pigeon” in Kalile-va-Demneh are successful instances of collective action and mobilization in classical Persian literature aimed at restructuring the status quo. Therefore, it is necessary to study the quantitative and qualitative variables governing their internal organization. The application of indicators such as the principle of wise actor, the principle of public relations, the principle of structure of collective action, the principle of quantitative and qualitative coherence, and the principle of motivations and behavioral patterns, etc. reveal the structural complexity of such collective actions. In this article, an attempt is made to study the internal mechanisms governing the two narratives using qualitative comparative analysis to assess the degree of coherence as well as the explanatory and interpretive capacities of each story.
Masoumeh Mahmoudi,
Volume 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
Research shows that the study of literary texts about an illness, especially from a phenomenological perspective, can contribute to a better understanding of the patient and the illness and lead to knowledge of the world and the human way of thinking. Obviously, this approach increases the appeal and interest of the audience in the study of literary works and opens up new horizons for them. On the other hand, among human emotions, the expression of love and behavior related to romantic feelings is more frequent in literary works, especially in the works of female writers, and erotomania, or romantic psychosis, is one of the delusional disorders reflected in these works. This descriptive-analytical study examines how the symptoms of erotomania are described in two short stories, named “Rana” from Nazli story collection written by Moniro Ravanipour and “Bad az Tabestan” from Chahar Rah story collection by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. The results indicate that the fictional characters in the works studied show symptoms that meet the clinical diagnostic criteria of the disorder in question. In these stories, in addition to the description of clinical symptoms, the authors have also considered sexual, social, economic, and cultural factors. This shows the ability of the writers to create realism and credibility in the plot of the story, which makes the reader better connect with the text and get influenced by it. Moreover, the description of the feelings and beliefs of these characters and their effects on their lives and personal and social relationships can help readers to better understand the way of thinking and the life experience of those people and create communication that comes from understanding a psychotic person in the real world.
Research shows that the study of literary texts about an illness, especially from a phenomenological perspective, can contribute to a better understanding of the patient and the illness and lead to knowledge of the world and the human way of thinking. Obviously, this approach increases the appeal and interest of the audience in the study of literary works and opens up new horizons for them. On the other hand, among human emotions, the expression of love and behavior related to romantic feelings is more frequent in literary works, especially in the works of female writers, and erotomania, or romantic psychosis, is one of the delusional disorders reflected in these works. This descriptive-analytical study examines how the symptoms of erotomania are described in two short stories, named “Rana” from Nazli story collection written by Moniro Ravanipour and “Bad az Tabestan” from Chahar Rah story collection by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. The results indicate that the fictional characters in the works studied show symptoms that meet the clinical diagnostic criteria of the disorder in question. In these stories, in addition to the description of clinical symptoms, the authors have also considered sexual, social, economic, and cultural factors. This shows the ability of the writers to create realism and credibility in the plot of the story, which makes the reader better connect with the text and get influenced by it. Moreover, the description of the feelings and beliefs of these characters and their effects on their lives and personal and social relationships can help readers to better understand the way of thinking and the life experience of those people and create communication that comes from understanding a psychotic person in the real world.
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Volume 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
Summoning and recalling the past is the result of social and political crises of the present. In order to legitimize and confirm the rulers, Muslim writers tried to match the schemas of ancient times with their contemporary examples. In such adaptation, the existing king was compared to the ideal king and his performance was compared to that of the Golden Age of Iran. The centralized and organized historiography of the Sassanids narrated the story of Mazdak in order to legitimize the power and performance of the Sassanids and created an ideal image of the era of Anushirvān and his justice. Khājeh Nizām al-Mulk, who was in charge of the ministry in a turbulent era, was searching for an ideal government in the era of Anushirvān. To deal with the Ismaili movement, he resorted to the example of the killing of the Mazdakians by the Sassanid government in the final part of Siyāsatnāmeh, and by reconstructing the historical patterns, he not only confirmed the killing of the Mazdakians, but also legitimized the suppression of the Seljuk opponents.
Phd Vida Dastmalchi,
Volume 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
In the series of research and psychological criticism of Sadegh Hedayat’s works, the issue of the evil mother among his various fictional characters deserves a separate study. The term “evil mother” derives from the dual aspect of the mother’s archetype in mythological psychology, which has been applied to the realm of humanities studies by the theories of Freud and Jung and their students. Hedayat depicted the evil mother and the consequences of her presence in the lives of the main characters of his stories in the novel Buf-e-kur (The Blind Owl) with the fluid character of the narrator’s mother (narrator’s aunt / narrator’s aunt’s daughter), in the short story Se ghatre khun (three drops of blood) with the character of Rokhsareh (evil woman), in Abji Khanom (Mrs. Abji), with the character of Abji’s mother, in Zani ke mardash ra gom kard (the woman who lost her husband) with the character of Zarrin Kolah’s mother and Zarrin Kolah herself, and in his two unpublished stories with the characters of the mother of the spider and the mother of the murdered man. Adopting a descriptive-analytical method, the present article investigates the power of the evil mother’s influence on the tragic fate of the characters in Hedayat’s works (mother complex, psychosis, suicide, homicide). The findings indicated that there are symbols with the supporting role of the evil mother in Hedayat’s stories. Hence, the influence of the evil mother in the lives of the main characters is predictable i.e., confrontation with the mother, psychosis, suicide and homicide are repeated fates of characters in these stories.
- Shahlā Khalilollāhi, - Maryam Mousavi Jeshvaghāni,
Volume 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
Abstract
In various philosophical traditions from Plato to the present, aesthetics, especially in art, is a historical phenomenon that owes its philosophical foundation to Kant. He considered beauty an independent concept, with the pleasure derived from it being inherent to that concept. Yuriko Saito, a theorist of everyday life aesthetics, believes that everyday life aesthetics addresses the shortcomings of philosophical aesthetics based on art. Thus, aesthetic perspectives and judgments can determine the quality of life, social ethics, and culture in the most authentic form. They can serve as necessary means for expressing the assessment of individuals’ everyday life quality and empower humans to enjoy aesthetic experiences through interactions with artifacts, the surrounding environment, and human interactions. Since narrative accounts contain propositions and capacities that are assessable from the perspective of everyday life aesthetics, and most of them hold true in the real world as well, researchers in this study aimed to analyze and explain the aesthetics of everyday life based on Saito’s approach in three short stories from the collection “Your Love in the Footnote” by Mahsa Mohebali, using documentary and qualitative methods with the help of library resources. The findings of this research indicated that the daily lives of individuals and the role of objects, places, etc., were depicted as symbols of deviance from norms and defamiliarization in human interactions. Despite deviance from norms and defamiliarization in human interactions, the texts of stories provide an experiential framework that ultimately leads to the realization and judgment that savor, beauty, the sublime, and its opposite, ugliness, have indeed taken shape in these stories.
M.s Marjān Heydari Tamrābādi, M.s Shivā Heydari Tamrābādi, Mr Vahid Vaziri,
Volume 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
Abstract
This research takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the role of architectural elements in the surrealist stories “The Blind Owl” and “Prince Ehtejab”. Each of the architectural elements has its own specific definition and function that shapes the physical atmosphere i.e., it creates an atmosphere limited to time and place. However, the content of these elements with their implicit meaning creates atmospheres that are not limited to time and place. As the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of architectural elements in creating the surrealist atmosphere of these stories, first of all, the architectural elements that existed in the stories were extracted and, through comparative studies, their meaning beyond the physical aspect was analyzed using a descriptive-analytical method. Ultimately, the crucial role of these elements in creating the surrealist atmosphere of the stories was elucidated. Sadegh Hedayat’s “The Blind Owl” can be considered his most important work. Architectural elements such as the narrator’s house and the buildings in the story play a significant role in shaping the story’s atmosphere. In “Prince Ehtejab”, due to the protagonist’s reminiscence of the last night of his life in his room, a surrealist atmosphere emerges. Upon closer examination, it can be said that the architectural elements in the room, carrying meaning beyond themselves, play a fundamental role in expressing the prince’s personal circumstances and exposing his weaknesses and fears.
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