Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Introduction an Ancient Genre: Bazmarazm

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
mahboubeh alihouri 1
mohammad jafar yahaghi 2
sayyed Mahdi zarghani 2
1 Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2 department of Persian Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Abstract
Genres in Iran are more widely known with European literary forms. In this regard, the effort of many researchers focus on the adaptation of European genres to Persian texts; while genres have no inherent characteristics, Rather they consist of a set of characters that have gathered densely assembled in certain works. Thus, in such an approach, the researcher's job is to examine the structural features of works that Placed "in a genre class".
In this paper, through descriptive-analytic method and Based on the genre approach and narrative study,
the defining features of a genre have been studied in six poetries from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. According to the data of these texts, one of the genres of Persian literature with the suggested title "Bazmarazm": "poetic narrative of the many epic and romantic behaviors between champion and lady from the family of elders that it leads to marriage ". This Literary type has Similar features in narrative Form, expression form, elements of narration, characterization, types of action, narrator, Narratee and Narrative Strategy. Despite its unique structural features, we think "Bazmarazm" is one of the undefined genres of classical Persian poetry which in spite of the obvious similarities it may have with other genre; but this genre has the particular Structural and content features that it distinguishes of the other similar genres
Keywords
Genre
Persian poetic narratives
Genre Approach
Narratology
Bazmarazm
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 5, Issue 9
March 2021
Pages 334-307

  • Receive Date 17 March 2020
  • Revise Date 06 May 2020
  • Accept Date 16 May 2020