Narrative Speed Analysis in Amir Khosrow Dehlavi’s Majnoon and Leily Collection

Amir Khosrow Dehlavi’s Majnoon and Leily is one of the poems written after Nezami’s Leily and Majnoon. The core themes of this work are different from the narration of Nezami’s Leily and Majnoon, which shows that Dehlavi was not completely faithful to Nezami’s narrative. This study investigated the speed of narration in this poem using descriptive-analytic method. This research utilized the model that criticizes Gennet's views based on classical texts of fiction poems presented in one of the research articles. The results showed that the core themes of the Dehlavi’s narrative were less than the ones in Nezami’s narrative. Most kernel features of the poem under analysis are reported at high narrative speeds, while only three kernel features are reported at slow narrative speeds. In these three themes, characterization and the appropriateness of the environment, time, etc. are processed in light of  Majnoon’s character. The richness of the text is placed in the same three themes that are interrelated in such a way that the first leads to the second and the second leads to the third. It seems that Dehlavi's main goal was to process these three themes in his work and the other themes have been mentioned upon necessity and in order to observe the causal plot of the story.