Removing Dust from Light of Eyes (A Study of Techniques of Decentration in Kalile va Damne )

Kalile va Damne is one of the valuable texts of the past and any attempt at displaying its hodden capacities can make the young generation more acquainted with the various values of this text. In this study, Kalile va Damne is approached through a new perspective so that its capacities for being re-written be partly represented and a method be suggested for selecting old texts, methods based on theories in young-adult literature and able to make their works more comprehensible and enjoyable for its readership. The purpose of this study is to realize the capacities of Kalile va Damne for being rewritten and recreated.this study has also aimed at examining decentration as an aesthetic factor by recognizing the techniques of decentration in the tales of Kalile va Damne and their effect on children’s self-fulfillment. The findings of this study show that out if the 21 techniques of decentration that Khosronejad and Moradpour have found in tales, eleven are found in Kalile va Damne. The function of some of them in this oeuvre is similar to their function in tales, and that of some others is new and different, in which case it develops that technique. The decntration techniques in common between tales and Kale va Damne include: exhibitionism, narrator’s intervention, tale in tale, displacement of the protagonist, debate, surprise, exaggeration, white-writing, metamorphosis, inversion, and simultaneous scenes. Six new techniques were found in Kalile va Damne, that can be added to the previous ones: awareness of the ending ,Inner textual, changing the narrator (if accompanied by changing the point of view),Compound characterization, tale-to-tale, and poem, verse, Hadiths in prose text.