Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

The Style Making Self-criticism of Saadi in Storytelling

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mahmoud Fazilat 1
Arad Gholami 2
Amir Hossein Esfahani Kan 3
1 Full Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD student in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 MA student in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/jlc.2024.452070.1631
Abstract
Copyright: © 2025 by the authors. Submitted for possible open access publication under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY- NC) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).





 



Stylistics in literature deals with the scientific study of style in literary works. Style refers to a set of distinguishing lingual, literary and intellectual features, and personal style means the special style of a poet or author that distinguishes his works from any other poet or author. This research focuses on examining one of the literary features of Saadi’s personal style, which is manifested in his stories, that is, self-criticism, and has explained its examples in Bustan and Golestan. In the field of narration and storytelling, we come across various examples in which Saadi has placed himself in the position of a negative character that has some flaws and shortcomings. In these cases, he reminds the audience of these faults and defects and warns them of such defects by being blamed by himself or another character in the story. Besides explaining these cases, the analysis of lingual reflections and intellectual functions of this feature are among the goals of this research. The method of conducting this research is descriptive-analytical according to the requirements of its subject, and its findings show that self-criticism facilitates the acceptance of the narrative and its messages and increases the number of audiences by creating empathy between the audience and the poet or author. These positive consequences have been clearly achieved in Saadi’s narrative works.
 
Keywords
Self-criticism
Narrative
Personal Style
Stylistics
Saadi

Subjects

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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 9, Issue 17
May 2025
Pages 375-351

  • Receive Date 12 April 2024
  • Revise Date 24 July 2024
  • Accept Date 15 September 2024