Research In Narrative Literature

• Razi University

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article This paper aims to analyze the personality of the main character of the novel Pedar-e aan Digari (Father of the Other One) by Parinoush Saniee, using the Neo-Freudian psychoanalytic theory of Karen Horney, especially her theory of Neurotic needs and personality types. Horney emphasized on the sig...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Fear, being referred to as a form of excitement, keeps the beings alive and it considered as a reaction against probable hazards. It is tangible that these illusional fears and horrors, make a part of childhood and adolescence behaviors, and gradually disappear by the growth of consciousness and...

Paeez Fasle Akhare Sal Ast (Autumn is the last season of the year) written by Nasim Marashi, although not being published for a long time, has been published several times and has won the Jalal Al- Ahmad Literary Award. In this article, based on Harald Weinrich's theory of verbs system, the type of time, face, person, and number of verbs have been...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The present article is devised on the basis of a descriptive-analytical procedure and is based on the theory of Genette, with the aim of identifying the types of time lapses in the narrative and the cause for their use in the novel; "Game Rules." Furthermore, it is to examine different forms of a...

Journey has always occupied a unique position in world literature. The current paper investigates the concept of journey in children and adult’s narrative literature. Samad Behrangi’s “the Little Black Fish” concerns the challenges faced by the main character while passing through different stages of the mystical journey. The present paper aims at...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The presented paper is an attempt to investigate Zoya Pirzad's novel I Turn Off the Lights using a descriptive-analytical method based on Pierce's epistemology and semiotic method on the title of the novel and the names of prominent characters. This novel is a collection of Armenian and Latin let...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article This study compares the stories of Veis and Ramin and Khosrow and Shirin. The basis for this study is Greimas theory and the characters' communication model, which assists the study to systematically identify the characters' contributions in the events, and their motivations, demands and wills in...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Bakhtin paved the way for a new conceptual approach in the novel by introducing the two concepts of "conversational logic" or "dialogue" and "polyphony". Accordingly, the main issue of the present study is to assess the position of the "other" and polyphony in Iranian sustainability novels whose...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The notion of love is one of the recurring themes in world literature. With the aim of investigating the Love-making styles in the relationships of the characters in The novel L'Ame enchantée, the two theories of Sternberg, American psychologist: "love triangle" and "love as a story" have been ut...

Social criticism, concerning the relationship and interplay of society and literature, is referred to as a literary criticism and is an instrument for the study of the social structures of literary texts. Lucien Goldman, a sociology theorist of literature, has presented views on the meaningful relationship of literary structure of texts, especially...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Gender, difference and uniformity of gender rules are considered as fundamental concepts of anthropology of gender. The present research is an attempt to examine Farhad Hassanzadeh's evidences (particularly in the ages of D and H) so as to analyze them based on post structuralism anthropology. Ha...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article In Iranian folk short stories, there is a possibility for the existence of more than one subject. Without a shadow of doubt, these subjects, with regards to the Semantic horizon and their action process path, are in interation with each other. According to this matter, the question addressing the...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The imposed war over Iran has been considered as one of the most important events in contemporary era which has evidently impacted multiple fields including culture, literature and art. One way to carry a better understanding over the various dimensions of war and its events and consequences is t...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article In Haras, written by Nasim Marashi, the place has an important role in making subjective conditions. This paper, by applying the semiotics analysis to the novel's text, tries to show how place and placiality participate in forming the textual subject identity. By using a descriptive-analytical ap...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Sociology of literature is the combined subject of social sciences and sociology. Lucien Goldman is one of the theorists of this analytical subject. In Goldman's formative sociology, the relationship between literary works and the social status of the author are taken into consideration, and the...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The war and its consequences provide the platform for the overreaching authority of colonialism and the marginalization of the subjectivity of war-torn citizens, especially women. War marks the independence of nations and the cultural, social, and gender identity of humans. On the other hand, the...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The novel Missing Soluch is one of the prominent works of Mahmoud Dolatabadi. In this work, the author expresses some parts of the pains, atrocities, and problems of the rural society of the Pahlavi era with an eloquent and pleasant expression. It can be stated that Dolatabadi has highlighted the...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article A healthy person, as being addressed in the current study, is always looking for a goal that makes his life meaningful. Viktor Frankl's theory of logotherapy, which is known as one of most pivotal theories of perfection psychology, gives meaning to a healthy human life in the light of the charact...