Roosta, Omid; Azadtabar, Fereshteh

doi:10.30465/lir.2025.49851.1916

"Freedom focused on will" and its historical policy direction in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh A case study of the story of Jamshid, Kaveh and Zahak

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

omid roosta ¹

fereshteh azadtabar ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Dar Al-Hikmah Institute of Higher Education, Qom, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.30465/lir.2025.49851.1916

Abstract

In this article; Ferdowsi's discursive policy has been analyzed from a sociological and philosophical point of view, with the approach of interdisciplinary studies and in a descriptive method, to first examine the liberating and dynamic mechanisms of metaphor and story in the process of transferring meaning from cosmic time to human time. to be Then, with a meta-linguistic view, the function of the will and the individuality of the poetic language in changing the text into a world-text and creating meaning from meaning should be explained. Freedom focused on will says: Although existence without language is hidden, and questioning existence and discovering it is possible for a wise person who directs his will to hear its voice. But the freedom of the poet and the dynamism of his poetry is to have a metaphorical view and a questioning pronoun, and the necessity of his will is wisdom to individuality and symbolic action. As a result, the freedom directed to the will gives the language of poetry the ability to create meaning from the meaning and change the text into a world-text. The result of the research shows that Ferdowsi viewed the story of the past as a text from the perspective of metaphor, but during the narration, he acted beyond the reporting and descriptive mode. This symbolic act; That is, the opening of the world of the text for the influence of the reader's intellectual relationships and sociological awareness is Ferdowsi's historical policy in keeping legends and myths alive.

Keywords

Freedom focused on will

human time

politics of history

Ferdowsi'

s Shahnameh. The story of Jamshid

Kaveh and Zahak

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