Introducing Persian Predestination poems (qażā va qadar) and analyzing them from a narrative perspective
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Article Type:
Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
Although the challenging topic of predestination (qażā va qadar) has always been discussed in Persian literature, some poets in the Safavid era paid a particular attention to the topic, composing eponymous masnavis, and this trend continued until Qajar. Most of these poems are manuscripts. The present study introduces a number of predestination poem and their poets and from the point of view of analyzing the aspects of fiction, these poems are criticized. The results of this study Indicates that the Predestination poems (qażā va qadar), despite minor differences, have common features that provide the structural unity of these works in terms of story processing. Common narrative components of these texts are: simplicity of language, the existence of a dominant pattern in the plots well as in characterization and the repetition of stereotyped, conventional, and static characters; being based all poems on a key and important theme; Create Heterogeneous and accidentally Events and Weakness of verisimilitude; Unexpected ending and the tragic end and The dominance of incidentalization over characterization. According to this research, these poems may be introduced as a new type of literature. The result of this study can clarify part of the evolution of Persian literature and of the knowledge of literary trends
Keywords:
Safavid period , Persian epopee , Ghaza , Ghadr poems , Ghaza , Ghadr ganre
Language:
Persian
Published:
Classical Persian Literature, Volume:11 Issue: 1, 2020
Pages:
171 to 194
https://www.magiran.com/p2181281
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