Shiraz, a Diverse City, in To Isfahan by Pierre Loti on the Basis of Geographical Criticism and Imagology

In recent years, concepts such as space and place in the field of comparative literature have become very important. Among the approaches of comparative literature, one can refer to the geographical criticism and imagology that have been very promising and in line with scientific principles in examining the views of foreign tourists. Of the many itineraries, by writers who have traveled to Persia as tourists or diplomats in different centuries and visited various cities, we can mention To Isfahan (Vers Ispahan, 1904) by the French traveler Pierre Loti who traveled to Iran in the early 20th century. In his book he described different cities of Iran from the south to Isfahan. In this paper, using geographical criticism approach as a multilateral method in describing the city of Shiraz, we have made an attempt to present new aspects of the geographical perspective of this work. The author􀞌s spontaneous look passes all the frontiers of imagination and offers a new different image of reality.