Analysis of Intertextual Links between Parvin Etesami's Poems and Hafez's Lyric Poems Based on Genet Transtextual Approach

The purpose in this research is to show the influences of Hafez on Parvin Etesami in terms of thought and language. The method of research is based on Gérard Genette’s rather descriptive and analytical, but actually intertextual approach. Intertextuality relies on discovering influences and effects of texts upon other texts. Based on this approach there are no unique, pure, or all- inclusive texts. All texts are influenced by texts that existed before and will influence other texts in the future and such relation is present in the conversations that exist among texts (Genette). The terminology of intertextuality was first introduced in the late 1960s by Julia Kristeva. Gérard Genette is among theorists that utilized intertextuality in a practical manner and called it transtextuality. Our reading of Parvin’s Qasidahs and Hafez’s Ghazals reveals to us the presence of metatextuality and paratextuality from Genette’s five categories of Intertextuality, Paratextuality, Metatextuality, Hypertextuality, and Architextuality. The relations of metatextuality in some of the poetry by Parvin & Hafez are telling of Parvin’s adherence to cultural and intellectual principles of Persian classical poetry and Hafez’s critical positions on these matters.