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Javad Dehghanian, Mohammad Khosravi Shakib, Mahnaz Tabiatboland,
year 29, Issue 91 (12-2021)
Abstract
If we admit that culture is a kind of text, we must inevitably accept that “The History of Jahāngushā” is a text that is the point of contact of different ideologies, each of which forms a part of Iranian identity and culture. Contrary to formalist approaches, an attempt has been made here to revisit the text based on those approaches of literary criticism that read the text in a dialectical and interactive connection with the material contexts of its production. Therefore, first, the ideologies in the text are introduced and analyzed, and after determining their role in shaping the ideological system of the History of Jahāngushā, their discourse contradictions are revealed, and finally, the impact of these ideologies on the text is discussed. Various factors such as historical context, social, cultural, and ideological institutions have been influential in the composition of this text and its linguistic form. It seems that more than the linguistic and expressive complexities, it is the discoursal, ideological, and cultural contradictions that have caused confusion and complexity of the text. Analyzing and retrieving the ideological currents of the text not only explains the reasons for its different readings but also helps the reader to reach a new and different judgment of the literary, historical, and cultural aspects of the text.
Mohammad Khosravi Shakib,
year 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
Abstract
“Collective mobilization” is one of the most widely used models in the field of contemporary political sociology, which makes it possible to study and analyze the internal mechanisms governing social movements, revolutions, and political unrest. In the present study, the narrative of “Birds of the World” in Manṭeq-al-Tayr as well as the story of “Torquate Pigeon” in Kalile-va-Demneh are successful instances of collective action and mobilization in classical Persian literature aimed at restructuring the status quo. Therefore, it is necessary to study the quantitative and qualitative variables governing their internal organization. The application of indicators such as the principle of wise actor, the principle of public relations, the principle of structure of collective action, the principle of quantitative and qualitative coherence, and the principle of motivations and behavioral patterns, etc. reveal the structural complexity of such collective actions. In this article, an attempt is made to study the internal mechanisms governing the two narratives using qualitative comparative analysis to assess the degree of coherence as well as the explanatory and interpretive capacities of each story.
Masoumeh Mahmoudi,
year 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
Research shows that the study of literary texts about an illness, especially from a phenomenological perspective, can contribute to a better understanding of the patient and the illness and lead to knowledge of the world and the human way of thinking. Obviously, this approach increases the appeal and interest of the audience in the study of literary works and opens up new horizons for them. On the other hand, among human emotions, the expression of love and behavior related to romantic feelings is more frequent in literary works, especially in the works of female writers, and erotomania, or romantic psychosis, is one of the delusional disorders reflected in these works. This descriptive-analytical study examines how the symptoms of erotomania are described in two short stories, named “Rana” from Nazli story collection written by Moniro Ravanipour and “Bad az Tabestan” from Chahar Rah story collection by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. The results indicate that the fictional characters in the works studied show symptoms that meet the clinical diagnostic criteria of the disorder in question. In these stories, in addition to the description of clinical symptoms, the authors have also considered sexual, social, economic, and cultural factors. This shows the ability of the writers to create realism and credibility in the plot of the story, which makes the reader better connect with the text and get influenced by it. Moreover, the description of the feelings and beliefs of these characters and their effects on their lives and personal and social relationships can help readers to better understand the way of thinking and the life experience of those people and create communication that comes from understanding a psychotic person in the real world.
Research shows that the study of literary texts about an illness, especially from a phenomenological perspective, can contribute to a better understanding of the patient and the illness and lead to knowledge of the world and the human way of thinking. Obviously, this approach increases the appeal and interest of the audience in the study of literary works and opens up new horizons for them. On the other hand, among human emotions, the expression of love and behavior related to romantic feelings is more frequent in literary works, especially in the works of female writers, and erotomania, or romantic psychosis, is one of the delusional disorders reflected in these works. This descriptive-analytical study examines how the symptoms of erotomania are described in two short stories, named “Rana” from Nazli story collection written by Moniro Ravanipour and “Bad az Tabestan” from Chahar Rah story collection by Ghazaleh Alizadeh, according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. The results indicate that the fictional characters in the works studied show symptoms that meet the clinical diagnostic criteria of the disorder in question. In these stories, in addition to the description of clinical symptoms, the authors have also considered sexual, social, economic, and cultural factors. This shows the ability of the writers to create realism and credibility in the plot of the story, which makes the reader better connect with the text and get influenced by it. Moreover, the description of the feelings and beliefs of these characters and their effects on their lives and personal and social relationships can help readers to better understand the way of thinking and the life experience of those people and create communication that comes from understanding a psychotic person in the real world.
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year 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
Summoning and recalling the past is the result of social and political crises of the present. In order to legitimize and confirm the rulers, Muslim writers tried to match the schemas of ancient times with their contemporary examples. In such adaptation, the existing king was compared to the ideal king and his performance was compared to that of the Golden Age of Iran. The centralized and organized historiography of the Sassanids narrated the story of Mazdak in order to legitimize the power and performance of the Sassanids and created an ideal image of the era of Anushirvān and his justice. Khājeh Nizām al-Mulk, who was in charge of the ministry in a turbulent era, was searching for an ideal government in the era of Anushirvān. To deal with the Ismaili movement, he resorted to the example of the killing of the Mazdakians by the Sassanid government in the final part of Siyāsatnāmeh, and by reconstructing the historical patterns, he not only confirmed the killing of the Mazdakians, but also legitimized the suppression of the Seljuk opponents.
Phd Vida Dastmalchi,
year 31, Issue 94 (6-2023)
Abstract
In the series of research and psychological criticism of Sadegh Hedayat’s works, the issue of the evil mother among his various fictional characters deserves a separate study. The term “evil mother” derives from the dual aspect of the mother’s archetype in mythological psychology, which has been applied to the realm of humanities studies by the theories of Freud and Jung and their students. Hedayat depicted the evil mother and the consequences of her presence in the lives of the main characters of his stories in the novel Buf-e-kur (The Blind Owl) with the fluid character of the narrator’s mother (narrator’s aunt / narrator’s aunt’s daughter), in the short story Se ghatre khun (three drops of blood) with the character of Rokhsareh (evil woman), in Abji Khanom (Mrs. Abji), with the character of Abji’s mother, in Zani ke mardash ra gom kard (the woman who lost her husband) with the character of Zarrin Kolah’s mother and Zarrin Kolah herself, and in his two unpublished stories with the characters of the mother of the spider and the mother of the murdered man. Adopting a descriptive-analytical method, the present article investigates the power of the evil mother’s influence on the tragic fate of the characters in Hedayat’s works (mother complex, psychosis, suicide, homicide). The findings indicated that there are symbols with the supporting role of the evil mother in Hedayat’s stories. Hence, the influence of the evil mother in the lives of the main characters is predictable i.e., confrontation with the mother, psychosis, suicide and homicide are repeated fates of characters in these stories.
- Shahla Khalilollahi, - Maryam Mousavi Jeshughani,
year 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
Abstract
The process of aesthetics is a type of thinking that encompasses various philosophical schools, particularly in the realm of art, from Plato to the present day. It is a historical phenomenon that owes its philosophical significance primarily to Kant. Kant considers beauty as an independent concept, where the pleasure derived from it is inherent to the thing itselfYuriko Saito, a theorist of aesthetics, believes that the aesthetics of everyday life addresses the shortcomings of art-based philosophical aesthetics. Accordingly, aesthetic perspectives and judgments can determine the quality of life, social and cultural ethics, and serve as a necessary means for expressing the evaluation of individuals' everyday life quality. They empower humans to fully enjoy aesthetic experiences through interactions with artifacts, the surrounding environment, and human interactions. Since narrative storytelling contains propositions and capacities that can be evaluated from the perspective of everyday life aesthetics and also possess validity in the real world, this study aims to analyze and expound upon the aesthetics of everyday life based on Saito's perspective in three short stories from the collection "Aashiqyat in the Footnotes" by Mahsa Mohebbali. The research utilizes documentary and qualitative methods, drawing upon analytical library resources. The goal is to answer the question of what the elements of everyday life aesthetics are in these works. The findings of this study in the three short stories demonstrate that the everyday life of individuals and the role of objects, places, etc. are depicted as symbols, in the form of normative escapism and defamiliarization in human interactions, etc. Despite normative escapism and defamiliarization in human interactions, the texts of the stories provide a platform for experiences that ultimately lead to the realization and judgment that beauty, ugliness, and the mundane are genuinely manifested within them.
M.s Marjan Heydari Tambrabadi, M.s Shiva Heydari Tambrabadi, Mr Vahid Vaziri,
year 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
Abstract
The present research, with an interdisciplinary approach, examines the role of architectural elements in the surreal stories of the blind owl and the prince of Ihtjab. Each of the architectural elements has its own specific definition and function, which shape the physical space and, in other words, create a space limited to time and place. But the content of these elements with their implicit meaning can create spaces that are not limited to time and place. Since the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of architectural elements in creating the atmosphere of a surreal story; First, the architectural elements in the stories have been extracted, and based on comparative studies, their meaning beyond their physical aspect has been examined with the analytical-descriptive method, and finally their role in creating the surreal atmosphere of this story. It has been revealed. The Blind Owl can be considered the most important work of Sadegh Hedayat; In this story, architectural elements, including the storyteller's house and the mentioned buildings, have played a very important role in creating the atmosphere. In the story of Shahzad Ehtjab, the narrator of the story remembers in his personal room on the last night of his life, the surreal atmosphere of the story is formed by the room and the elements in it. With a deeper investigation, it can be said that the architectural elements in the room play an essential role in expressing the narrator's personal situations, recognizing the weaknesses and fears of the narrator.
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