Methodology
Mohsen Goudarzi; Mohsen Shakerinejad
Abstract
This paper introduces the book Savad-e Revayat and analyzes it based on form and content. First of all, the definition of narration and narratology, a brief review of narration history, and the reason for selecting this book for analysis have been presented in the introduction. Reviewing the history ...
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This paper introduces the book Savad-e Revayat and analyzes it based on form and content. First of all, the definition of narration and narratology, a brief review of narration history, and the reason for selecting this book for analysis have been presented in the introduction. Reviewing the history of narration will be helpful for understanding the importance and reasoning of analyzing this book. After that, in the form analysis, the eloquence of the book, Persian translation quality, book’s appearance, editing and other formal characters have been analyzed. Also, in the content analysis, the author’s method in theoretical arguments, different theoretical frameworks of the book, and the strengths and weaknesses of the content have been investigated. Savad-e Revayat has good suitable writing and translation. The book has been used the inductive method and both structuralism and poststructuralism frameworks. Therefore, Savad-e Revayat is worthy and valuable in the field of narratology. This book should play significant role in narration analysis in Iranian academia. Furthermore, Savad-e Revayat could transfer the matters of narration and narratology from elites to the public.
Persian Language and Literature
Abolfazl Horri
Volume 18, Issue 2 , June 2018, , Pages 69-90
Abstract
This paper aims to look at the form and the content of a book entitled, A Diachronic Narrative Study: On the Rhetorics of Persian Folktales and Literary Fictions (Safi, 20015) in a much more critical way, taken mostly from the narratological approaches. Firstly, the main four chapters of the ...
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This paper aims to look at the form and the content of a book entitled, A Diachronic Narrative Study: On the Rhetorics of Persian Folktales and Literary Fictions (Safi, 20015) in a much more critical way, taken mostly from the narratological approaches. Firstly, the main four chapters of the book are reviewed. The first chapter introduces the concept of “Metalepsis”, taken from Genette (1980, 1988). It is said that the writer has made no good effort to support his claims on this concept. The second chapter discusses “Ravayatgardani”, i.e, a change in the process of narration, but again the writer has not been successful in the categorization of Revayargardani. The third chapter has taken the second pronoun into consideration. Finally, the writer has gone to study the hypothetical focalization in chapter four, and has been successful to a large extant in dealing with such a concept. At the same time, some claims are made for and against of what the writer has stated within each chapter. While appreciating the efforts made by the writer all through the analysis of the book, some suggestions are made for the writer to take into his consideration.
Persian Language and Literature
Masroureh Mokhtari
Volume 17, Issue 7 , January 2018, , Pages 183-197
Abstract
Narratology is a new approach to study fiction, and it tries to find out the structure of the story, discover the narrative language, the system governing narrative types, and their structures. In the recent decade, the Narration Theory has received a considerable attention in studying ...
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Narratology is a new approach to study fiction, and it tries to find out the structure of the story, discover the narrative language, the system governing narrative types, and their structures. In the recent decade, the Narration Theory has received a considerable attention in studying different kinds of literary genres. The present research is a case study with the suggested model in the form of 31 functions and 7 characters presented in the book named "Morphology of Fairy Tales" by Vladimir Propp; the conducted studeis such as theses and articles with an analytic approach have been conducted and those damages which have been caused by using this theory to the conducted studies have been investigated considering the compatibility or incompatibility of the theory with the text, misunderstanding of narration, and so on. The result of the research indicates that although Propp's theory in the field of narrative texts holding Folkloric infrastructure has been one of the main attempts to understand the usage of functions in fiction, it is necessary to make some changes in the suggested model regarding the text and the requirements of studied society. It can be concluded that customizing this theory and other similar theories in Narratology is a necessity to do research on narrative fiction texts, and without taking these considerations into accounts, most of the conducted studies are ambiguous regarding the validity of their results.
