Evolutionary literary criticism and its use in story analysis (Case study: Bamdad Khomar)

AbstractThe idea of "evolution based on natural selection" was introduced by Charles Darwin in the second half of the nineteenth century, it did not remain only in the field of biology and had a profound effect on the understanding of humanities and social scientists of the subjects they studied. Psychology and literary criticism were among the teachings that were influenced by this theory in terms of insight and method, and founded literary Darwinism. Literary Darwinism claims that literary behaviors are rooted in mankind evolved nature. Of course, sometimes the term "evolutionary critique" has replaced "literary Darwinism" and been used instead.In this article, we have tried to present a report on the influence of literature and literary criticism on the theory of evolution and show that evolutionary literary criticism seeks to identify basic and common human needs such as: sexual attractiveness, childbearing, social status and Like them. Therefore, based on evolutionary psychology and biology, while presenting a new reading of literary texts, to explore the human characters represented in literature. After introducing this approach to the literary text, using a descriptive-analytical method, one of the most popular contemporary Iranian novels (Bamdad Khomar) written by Fataneh Haj Seyed Javadi has been Evolutionary Criticism examined. We have come to the conclusion that literary evolutionary critique, Has the capacity to represent the biological content of fiction texts, it depicts human nature well through the analysis of these types of texts.