نشریه پژوهش های ادبیات تطبیقی
سال هشتم شماره 3 (پیاپی 25، پاییز 1399)

The present study is a comparative study of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Age of Reason and Iris Murdoch’s The Bell. The main focus is on “unreliable narrator” which is a popular concept at the present time when humanity enjoys manipulating each other and suffers himself from misunderstandings. Wayne C. Booth was the earliest theorist who provided a practical definition of “unreliable narrator” and his theory is considered as the framework. Previously, the studies only focused on homodiegetic narrators but, here, other narrative techniques are analyzed. In other words, the point of view and the presence of multiple perspectives and voices are crucial in the analysis of unreliable narratives. These narrative techniques and unreliable narrators are scrutinized at the social and political contexts of the novels. Accordingly, New Historicism, specifically Stephen Greenblatt’s theory, is used as another approach to reveal the presence and function of the unreliable narrators in the selected literary works.

The concept of poetry and its nature has long been the attention of poets and Critics. In contemporary times, especially after the emergence of poetry, the concept of poetry faced more challenges. because this concept is tied with other concepts such as innovation, tradition, and commitment. and many poets and researchers in Iran and the Arab world studied this concept. In this regard two theorists, , Adunis and Dariush Ashuri Have valuable ideas in this field.The present study want to explain the concept of poetry from the viewpoint of these two theorists. It relies on the two books "Zaman elshear" and "poetry and thought". The resualts of this research indicate that the concept of poetry in the viewpoint of these two thinker is very close to philosophy, and the philosophical approach has led to the meaning of meaning in this field. in such a way that the semantic and aesthetic aspects of poetry are strengthened against pure realistic aspects. in this way both thoughts have emphasized the existence of a poem as a factor of its richness.

Dramatic and fictional literature has long been inextricably linked since language emerged as a means of communication; storytelling as a means of expressing life events and drama as a means of communicating with the world around us, have always met the most important human needs in relation to each other, and in the course of their lives, their tools and capabilities have been shared and expanded to the present. Today, the drama uses some of the features and capabilities of fiction literature and fiction literature for some drama. However, in this study we try to focus on some of the dramatic situation that Georges Poletti has identified in Thirty-Six cases to study works “Ivy” by Deledda and ²Christine and Kidd² by Hooshang Golshiri in a descriptive-analytic method to show how content subscriptions have created the dramatic capacity in two works. Accordingly, the findings of the study show that although the works of these two authors have been formed in two different schools with different coordinates, but they share the dramatic situation associated with a common theme of love and attention to human and emotional relationships. Due to Golshiri by focusing on individual dimension of relationships and deledda by focusing on the social context of the formation and development of the characters, have succeeded in creating dramatic situation in thier work

In contemporary novel, applying a set constrained writing techniques, is a concern of some novelists, since the novel is known as a literary type, which unlike poetic genre, does not follow definite rules and principles.  In French literature, a literary group, called Oulipo, has been able to create unique literary works by devising constrained writing techniques and rules that are particularly used in the novel. The striking point is that some non-Oulipian authors are comparable to the style of this literary group. Raza Amirkhani, the Iranian writer, has created such an Oulipian-like novel in his Bivatan, without knowing Oulipo. This study shows that Amirkhani has been able to create a novel in Persian language, by combining literature and mathematics, alongside challenging the reader by different language and literature games, and most importantly, by observing Jacques Roubaud’s first principle.

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century, the awareness of the masses increased in different societies and has sparked screams of protest over the ruling regimes. After the protest movements occurred in Iran and in the Arab countries, the authors of the course used the story as a good form to express the pain of the people and describe their tragic and sorrow lives. Since the late of eighteenth century to today fiction witnessed many developments and exposed to various ideas and theories. Moreover, while defining the current and the schools in Persian and Arabic has been mentioned to the most influential literary currents and schools and its famous writers in Arab countries and Iran. Studies shows that similarities are more than the differences in contemporary Persian and Arabic literary literature, and literally most of the schoolchr('39')s realism was the school of fiction writing in two communities. In terms of the trends that have emerged, the flow of political novels, climatology, feminization, and the two main tendencies of historical and social novels. The distinguishing differences in this comparison are the literature of immigration, which is discarded in Persian fiction, as well as the committed literature is much more limited in Iran than Arabic countries.

Gypsies are a wandering and landless people who are commonly known around the world to represent not just nomadism but also festive dancing and singing. From what can be gathered from literary and historical sources, the Romani people first came to the land of Iran during the time of the Sasanids, and their first visit to France came about the fourteenth century. In mid-eighteenth century and during the early decades of the nineteenth century, bohemian characters were considered to be influential in French literature. In those early texts, French and Iranian writers and poets referred only to tales about the bohemian origin, past, and their arrival to these lands. But in time poets and writers began to attend to and reflect on other aspects of this community’slifeworld. Thisstudy, afterabriefsurveyofhowbohemian people emerged as a distinct community in France and Iran, will explore the representation of bohemian people in French and Iranian literatures. From among their many attributes, this study pays particular attention to salient features of their way of life, such as minstrelsy, music and song composition, and their landlessness. Finally, an attempt will be made, following an analysis of Romani people from the socio-cultural perspective, to provide an answer to the question of how French and Iranian cultures and literatures have represented and developed the image of the gypsy.

The mystical literature is full of symbols, archetypes and schemes (symbol motors). The French philosopher and writer, Gilbert Durand believes that image is prior to reason, and, basically, all reasoning is based on imagination. In mystical literature, imagination and reason together create true images on the transcendental level. This is the "active imagination" generated in “Mundus imaginalis”. Through an analytical look at the images in Abhar-al-Asheshqin, the work of Roozbehan Baqli Shirazi, we have acquired a new cognition of his imaginative world; and via Gilbert Durand‘s “modeling of imagination", we have decoded the images received in the mystic mind of Roozbehan. For example, we have shown how the schemes of ascending, through symbols such as a “Bird” or a “Ladder”, soften the images of fear of mortality. Also the "positional schemes" of imagination have replaced themselves with "downward schemes" or "rhythmic schemes". So in Roozbehan’s imagination, the fear of death is either hidden within a romantic fate, or death is essentially devoid of fear. This is accomplished by passing from diurnal imagination, with a positive evaluation, toward nocturne imagination, or again, from a bipolar structure of imagination to a hybrid one.

The narrative literature in Iran has always been one of the main sources of inspiration for many arts. In the meantime, the contribution of visual arts and drama is more than other arts. Accordingly, painting and cinema create the strongest link with literature, and in a fruitful effort, they offer valuable literary materials in a new garb, tailored to the needs of the day and in the form of a new media. Undoubtedly, in this transaction, the theme is also evolving due to the capabilities and features of the destination. Such developments, if intelligently and consciously recognized by the artist and the critic, are not only not considered shortcomings, but can also be added to the original value of the theme. With such a necessity and purpose in the present research, we try to examine the developments of the media and, of course, the sign of the narrative of the "passage of Siavash of Fire" from literature to painting.This research is descriptive-analytic and based on Propchr('39')s pattern. The results indicate that the frequency of the role of the special features of the story varies according to the characteristics of the destination media (painting). In fact, the artist painter based on his artistic taste emphasizes the consequences of the story, which is not very frequent in Ferdowsichr('39')s narrative.

George Gordon Lord Byron,a British poet of 19th century, was heavily influenced by Oriental and Persian literature in his works. The poet’s life coincided with beginning of the “Victorian age”, and “romanticism” style emergence and the beginning of the European literature’s impressionability presentation from Iranian literature and Persian language; hence he is known as an outstanding person and European renaissance’s symbol and among the Persian literature’s impressed ones.In This research attempt to clarify the “Manfred” Play’s contribution among Lord Byron’s works in Persian literature’s impressionability through library and documentary tools and relying on an analytical and comparative method. The result is that the above work is influenced strikingly by the works of Persian literature and language, Oriental myths and culture in “symbols”, “concepts”, “fantasies” and even “lexical” terms, which are collected due to Byron’s studies in his subconscious. Also research data show that the two categories of “Zoroastrianism” and “mysticism”, in effectiveness of Persian literature, had the largest share which are presented under two total categories: character-making level and space-making level.