Figurative Elements in The Novel of Romances of Jonah in The Belly of The Whale by Jamshid Khanian

Literature of resistance in a specific meaning is one of the literary genres that is kind of new in Iran with many stories and novels in which the author has employed allegory and symbol to express himself and create his work. Symbol and allegory include something vague, unknown or hidden from us known as a code in the new era and stylistic criticism of a work that can even include an author's style. Layered stylistics, which is a modern method of stylistics, considers situational context as the macro layer, fragmenting the text into micro layers. Then, exploring those layers, it searches the features and frequent traits, ultimately leading to the discovery of ideology.
In this descriptive-content analysis study, first, according to the situational context, the novel of Romances of Jonah in the belly of the whale byJamshid Khanian, an allegorical work in the literature of resistance, was fragmented into lexical, syntactic and rhetorical micro layers, and then analyzed stylistically.The findings suggest that the ideology of the author lies in the syntactic layer since this is an allegorical story and allegory usually reflects in the syntactic layer. Presenting a perfect example, the author introduces the journey from an earthly love to the heavenly love as the best type of love; then, employing the code and allegory, makes the audience interprete and think, creating an allegorical style for his novel