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Mrs Zohreh Fallahi, Dr Ahmad Khiyali Khatibi, Dr Mohammad Sadegh Farbod, year 29, Issue 91 (12-2021)
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There is a two-way relationship between society and literature so that each one affects the other. In his theory of practice, Bourdieu deals with the interaction between literature and society and their mutual impact on each other. In the present article using Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of “practice”, three concepts of habitus, field, and action have been considered as the basis of analysis to provide a sociological investigation of Ahmad Shamlou’s poems and to clarify the way of thinking and type of action of this contemporary innovative poet. The research method in this study is descriptive-analytical in nature and fundamental-theoretical based on the purpose. The findings indicated that the poet’s habitus, which was based on the type of personal and social education in the family and society, was a fixed and stable habitus and with a special taste (habitus) in the face of the ruling power (field), to the extent that he had the available capital, he chose his lifestyle according to the position (pole of independence) in which he was located, due to the dialectical contradiction (between habitus and field), he chose a difficult and highly negative position. The poet performed different actions, the result of which was composing socio-political poems and, above all, innovating the sub-field of Persian poetry production.
Mohammad Parsanasab, Fatemeh Ahmadizade Kohan, year 29, Issue 91 (12-2021)
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Boasting (Mofakhereh in Persian) as a poetic theme or as a sub-genre has a strong presence in the books of poems of classical Persian poets. Adopting an analytical approach, this research attempted at analyzing ‘boasting’ in poems of Manouchehri Damghani, Sanaei Ghaznavi, and Khaghani Shervani based on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. To do so, after extracting instances of their ‘boasting’ odes and considering the historical and social issues of their times and their different habitus and mindsets, we tried to analyze the poems based on Bourdieu’s four literary field principles (habitus, capital, struggle, and disinterestedness). The results showed that Manouchehri, due to his inclination to the power filed, and to make a name and a living and to stabilize his position, used his art and poetry for boasting. He did not observe the principle of disinterestedness in the literary field which attempts at purifying literature from personal intentions. As a result, he was pushed to the margin. But as the power field changed during the second Ghaznavid and Seljuk periods and some new problems and instabilities affected poets’ conditions, poets such as Sanaei and Khaghani distanced themselves from the power field, due to their specific habitus, and attempted at purifying literature and fighting the power field. From the two poets, Khaghani was more successful due to his disinterestedness and observance of the rules of the literary field.
Zohreh Fallahi, Ahmad Khiyali Khatibi, Mohammad Sadegh Farbod, year 31, Issue 95 (11-2023)
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In Bourdieu's theory of action, the literary work is the reproduction of cultural capital and the result of a combination of economic capital and the habitus. Additionally, it is a social action that a person shows in the literary field. Poetry, as a literary work, is a product of the mental dimension of cultural capital, which appears as a material success and objectified by the poet. This research compares the poetic actions of Nima and Akhavan with an approach to the capital and field based on Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in order to answer the questions of how the actions of these two poets are expressed with their decisions and how they react to the actions of others and the socio-political conditions of the society. The background of the research shows that many researchers paid little attention to this matter. The methodology of this study, in terms of nature and method, is descriptive-analytical and regarding its purpose, is fundamental-theoretical. The results indicated that both poets have similarities in some poetic actions but have different reactions in some others, the process of which is writing social-political poems in the field of Persian poetry production.
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