Showing 3 results for Allegory
Hamid-Reza Tavakoli,
Volume 1, Issue 3 (10-2004)
Abstract
One of the most prominent evident features of Mathnavi Movlavi is its unique of story telling and association. In this article attempts are made to explore the distinguishing feature of Mathnavi Movlavi`s narrative style against those of former man of letters. Meanwhile, the author, highlighting the similarities in the narrative style of Mathnavi and Qazalyyat-e Shams and particularly Attar works, proceeds to comparing the narrative styles of Mathnavi ad the Holy Qoran and comments on movlavi`s innovations.
Hasan Zolfaqari,
Volume 2, Issue 5 (5-2005)
Abstract
'Beauty and Heart' (Per. Hosn O Del) or Directions for Lovers (Per. Dastour Ol Oshaq) is a versified Persian allegory by Fattahi Neyshabouri (Death: 825 A.H. /1446 A.D). This allegory has attracted many oriental scholars and has been translated into several languages. Also, it has been imitated eight times in Persian and ten times in Turkish. Mystical and loving themes, great number of symbols and variation in themes have made the allegory an interesting book for further study. The poet tries to employ body organs and lyric metaphors to encode his ideas in the narrative style. The overriding theme of Beauty and Heart is the clash between reason and love as a recurrent topic of Persian Suffism. The poet portrays the victory of love in this clash along with the lover's sufferings. This paper provides a critical summary report of the story and a biographical account of Fattahi so that more light is shed on this mystical allegory and, in so doing; more avenues of research are opened up.
Ghasem Sahraei, Ali Heydari, Maryam Mirzaee Moghadam,
Volume 6, Issue 16 (4-2011)
Abstract
In Beyhaghi’s history, the artistic as well as literary devices, allegories in particular, are not simply intended for their aesthetic appeals or as embellishments. They are rather employed to serve the author’s purposes. In other words, sometimes the author is compelled, given his own social and political position or the social and political position of the real characters in his work, to convey his thoughts to the reader by employing indirect methods of expression such as using allegories and anecdotes. Thus, the reader, by penetrating the underlying layers of the text would explore fresh and compelling meanings, which due to their literariness are more effective. This paper aims at analyzing some allegories as well as anecdotes used in Tarikh-e Beyhaghi as indirect methods of expression employed by Abolfazl-e Beyhaghi in order to demonstrate how they helped him to bring to picture the turmoil of the time and the atmosphere of distrust in the court of Masoud Ghaznavi.
