IHCS Literary Interdisciplinary Research 2717-3224 2 3 2020 05 21 Considerations on Machiavelli's position in contemporary literary studies Considerations on Machiavelli's position in contemporary literary studies 191 211 5003 10.30465/lir.2020.5003 FA Jafar Fasaei PhD in Persian Language and Literature. Faculty of Literature, Hormozgan University. Iran ALI BALAGHI Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature. Shahid Mofteh Campus, Farhangian University. Tehran. Iran Journal Article 2020 03 27 Machiavelli's relation to literary theory goes back to the early twentieth century. After this date relatively significant works in Persian literature have been criticized by Machiavelli's Thoughts. And this process continues until now. The present article first deals with the genealogy of this process in Persian literary criticism And then he looks at the pathology of such research. . The results show that most of this flow is due to disregard of Machiavelli's actual position In the discourse of Western political thought And by reducing the ideas of this thinker- Because of the use of incorrect translations- Provides incomplete information about Machiavelli and thus This misconception as a literary theory has been applied in the process of literary criticism Its sum often results in incomplete results and inaccurate readings of texts. Machiavelli's relation to literary theory goes back to the early twentieth century. After this date relatively significant works in Persian literature have been criticized by Machiavelli's Thoughts. And this process continues until now. The present article first deals with the genealogy of this process in Persian literary criticism And then he looks at the pathology of such research. . The results show that most of this flow is due to disregard of Machiavelli's actual position In the discourse of Western political thought And by reducing the ideas of this thinker- Because of the use of incorrect translations- Provides incomplete information about Machiavelli and thus This misconception as a literary theory has been applied in the process of literary criticism Its sum often results in incomplete results and inaccurate readings of texts. http://lir.ihcs.ac.ir/article_5003_37710a74cd1bd7ba3dfa2210308e8acf.pdf