A Comparative Study of Fiction Elements in Ahamd ShowghisBabol-Hekayat and Parvin E etesami's Stories

Showghi’sBabol-Hekayat and E’etesami’s Stories are among the most important contemporary allegorical works in Arabic and Persian Literature. It is a common idea that allegory as a literary genre has weak structur and could hardly reflect the ethical issues. Consequently, it has been downgraded as the weakest literary genre built upon fiction elements. In addition, the main body of the research on allegorical literature has put emphasis on the content of the allegorical works at the expense of the art of "How to Say". It is quite obvious that the art of "How to Say" as one of the main principles of literature has been totally ignored and underestimated in the growing body of research which has only considered the content or “What to Say”. Through a descriptive-analytical approach and secondary research, this study aims at examining the structure and relevant fiction elements of Showghi’sBabol-Hekayat and E’etesami’s Stories. The deep relationship between the structural and semantic aspects of the two authors’ works will be invewstigated as well. It would be demonstrated that a one-dimensional semantic approach to the study of such literary works is never considered as a reliable research methodology. More clearly, a deep structural analysis accompanied with the semantic analysis could lead to a better comprehension of the content.