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Showing 3 results for Literary Criticism
Masoud Rouhani, Mohammad Enayati Ghadikolaee,
year 17, Issue 66 (3-2010)
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Currently, we can hardly find any criticism that has not paid any attention to structural functionalism. Contemporary literary criticism leads to structuralism inspired by de Saussure's linguistic theory. Structural analysis, especially, of narrative works is one of the most extraordinary achievements of contemporary literary criticism. In the stories, fairy tales and epic realm, Vladimir Propp's method is the best for structural stratification and analysis. His method is based on tales stratification and symbolic analysis of each stratum. Vladimir Propp used structural linguistic analysis for narrative analyzing. Propp, having studied one hundred narratives with similar composition, uncovered the structure of "main narrative" and by analyzing one hundred stories of Russian stories concluded that there were thirty one genres. He believed the method could be applied to other folk tales and even novels. Propp's method has been used by other scholars and sometimes was criticized too. Although Propp's system has its own defects, it has provided a proper starting point for other theorists and has influenced subsequent theorists. This article follows Propp's model and method and intends to stratify and analyze "Bizhan and Manizhe” Story, one of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh stories, The aim of this article is to probe Propp's model in this story.
Hamid Abdollahian, Farnoush Farahmand,
year 20, Issue 72 (5-2012)
Abstract
Najdi is one of the outstanding contemporary writers due to his specific style. He has a different attitude towards human life and cultural elements of Iran, which makes his stories a good subject for discussion and research. In this article, two stories of Najdi are analyzed in the light of Deconstruction: “The Day of Asb-rizi” and “The Night of Killing Sohrab”. Deconstruction is mostly based on Derrida’s theory. It originated and was initially used in Philosophy and then it spread to literary criticism. The aim of Deconstruction is to find the binary oppositions, to analyze them in order to reveal the contradictory points and to deny the accepted assumptions. The results of this process is to doubt those beliefs that have been considered as axiomatic up to that time. In Najdi’s stories, the binary oppositions include man/animal, man/nature and man and civilization. In “The Day of Asb-rizi”, the opposition between man and animal, and, freedom and slavery causes some contradictions in the major themes of the story. In “The Night of Killing Sohrab”, the binary opposition is that of harsh patriarchal world/ innocent childish world, or, experience/inexperience.
No Ebrahim Hasanaklou, No Reza Cheraghi,
year 32, Issue 96 (4-2024)
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The controversy over Nima's literary theory and poetry has a long history. Literary critics, each of them, supported Nima and presented a special interpretation of him. The problem of this research will be to read the opinions of Barahani and Pournamdarians of the seventies as representatives of academic and non-academic criticism. This research showed that Pournamdarian and Barahani made mistakes in their understanding of Nima and sometimes they went too far in their opinions. Despite all this, it can be said that despite trying to understand Nima in a new way, Pournamdarian is still trapped by the stereotyped traditions of literary criticism, which makes him define new poetry under traditional poetry. On the other hand, Barahani has neglected the historical process of Nima's theorizing and poetry, has gone to extremes in some of his opinions and announces a crisis that we can see in the poetry of the seventies. In other words, tradition and modernity are clearly incompatible in the opinions of these two critics. Pournamdarian wants to mix modern poetry with traditional criticism, and Barahani becomes dogmatic in his criticism.
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