Literary interdisciplinary research
Issa Soleimani; Mohammad Hossein Javari
Abstract
Any writer preoccupied with politics, history and power unconsciously echoes them in his/her works as it has happened to Houshang Golshiri’s works. Golshiri was a writer who used to study authentic sources about the history of Iran and took advantage of intertextual methods when reading ancient ...
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Any writer preoccupied with politics, history and power unconsciously echoes them in his/her works as it has happened to Houshang Golshiri’s works. Golshiri was a writer who used to study authentic sources about the history of Iran and took advantage of intertextual methods when reading ancient texts all of which along with his political points of view are seen into his writings.Political and Marxist criticism is inspired by works of Marx and Engels who have influenced almost all twentieth century’s political critics. Even the works of Iran’s literary worthies like Hafez and Ferdowsi could be read from political perspectives. Golshiri, interested in the works of Hafez and Ferdowsi, and almost their disciple, has written political works. When reading his works carefully, we will find between the lines that he is one of the most political Iranian authors. The purpose of this article is to show that Golshiri’s works can be read from political as well as intertextual perceptive. Intertextuality is a concept derived from the works of Russian Formalists especially Mikhail Bakhtin, a political writer and thinker. Intertextuality has a wide range of meanings and is open to debate among critics such as Kristeva, Gennet, and Barthes. This paper, however, focuses mostly on Mark Angeno’s intertextual perspective, because it invites the literary production into a network of interactions of social discourses. This approach takes a fresh look at the importance of literary works in a symbolic way and sheds light on these interactions in a political society.
Eftekhar Gasemzadeh; Fatemeh Ahmadvand
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Sadegh Hedayat is one of the most important figures of the westernist intellectual current in twentieth-century Iran and one of the most famous modern Iranian novelists. Among his many works, historical writings have a significant place and, more importantly, the historical attitudes of this author who ...
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Sadegh Hedayat is one of the most important figures of the westernist intellectual current in twentieth-century Iran and one of the most famous modern Iranian novelists. Among his many works, historical writings have a significant place and, more importantly, the historical attitudes of this author who has been the motivation and motivation for writing many of his works. This research has tried to provide an analysis of the historically valuable works of this author, to recognize the historiographical understanding and historical attitudes of Hedayat and seeks to find answers to these questions: What is the place of history in Hedayat's works? And what are the most important components in their historical attitudes?; Therefore, these works are classified in three main forms of historical dramas with the theme of ancient frustration of Iranians subjugated against non-Iranian attacks, correction, and translation of Pahlavi historical texts from the Sassanid era and works with the anthropological theme. Analytical knowledge of these works, which is provided by the descriptive-analytical method and conceptual study of his literary works, shows that nationalist attitude, historical antiquity, and Zoroastrianism, and racist enmity with non-Iranian elements are the main components of historical attitudes. Make up the lead.
MOHAMMAD KESHAVARZ BEIZAIEE; REZA MOEENI ROUDBALI; KOBRA ORIANI; MOJTABA REZAIEE SARCHEGHA
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The purpose of this research is to study SaadiShiraz’shistorical knowledge in Gulistan and Bustan. The knowledges and concepts of Saadi in history are abstruse points in creation of those two great works in Persian literature and there is little attention to them. This question will be answered ...
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The purpose of this research is to study SaadiShiraz’shistorical knowledge in Gulistan and Bustan. The knowledges and concepts of Saadi in history are abstruse points in creation of those two great works in Persian literature and there is little attention to them. This question will be answered in this article; what are the concepts and knowledge of Saadi in history for creation of these two works and which concepts and elementsadumbrate them? The principle assumption of this research is that the social and personal experiences of Saadi have a great effect on his historical knowledge. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic and the results show that a combination of individual, historical, and social factors which were effective in formation of intellectual and historical knowledge of Saadi: his education in Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad as the eldest cultural center of Islamic worlds, searching for the new horizons in turbulent era, and study of historical and cultural texts- by the social security ofSalghoriān. The great textual historical knowledge of Saadi caused appearance of his preconceived knowledge in some of his poetries and proses which are included the concepts and characteristics such as irrelevancy of god shadowing, tactility, efforts for application of element, historical concepts and characters, - mythical, homeland, Islamic- and consideration of history as an instrument for teaching morality in the form of stories, allegories, symbols, Allusion with attractive and magical technique.
