Parody in Contemporary Persian Literature: A Case Study of The Novel The New Thousand and One Night by Mohammad Ali Oloumi

Parody is a literary device which distorts and recreates an utterance, style, or plot of an original work. The author tries to investigate this device in TheNew Thousand and One Night by Mohammad AliOlumi. To that end, having described and analyzed the term parody, the author investigates how parody relates to Bakhtin’s views such as intertextuality and dialogic. Afterwards, applying an analytic and comparative approach, the samples of this devicein TheNew Thousand and One Night are studied. The findings show that The New Thousand and One Nights is a sub-text which bears a comic and purposeful relationship with its original work, Thousand and One Night, by recreating the characters, plot, and utterance.