A Study of Representation of Postmodern Components in the Narration of Lady Azadeh and Her Author: A Literary Discourse Analysis Approach

Fouladi, Fatemeh; Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows; Golfam, Arsalan; Ameri, Hayat

doi:10.22034/jlc.2025.495844.1698

A Study of Representation of Postmodern Components in the Narration of Lady Azadeh and Her Author: A Literary Discourse Analysis Approach

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Fatemeh Fouladi ¹

Ferdows Aghagolzadeh ²

Arsalan Golfam ³

Hayat Ameri ²

¹ Linguistics Department, Humanities Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Linguistics Department. Humanities Faculty. Tarbiat Modares University. Tehran. Iran

³ Linguistics Department. Humanities Faculty. Tarbiat Madares University. Tehran. Iran

10.22034/jlc.2025.495844.1698

Abstract

Narration is the expression of human experiences in order to make meaning. Narrative mode has a very important role in absorbing addressees. This essay studies linguistically the narrative mode of Lady Azadeh and Her Author by Reza Baraheni in order to show how postmodern components are represented in this work. Studying this novel according to Simpson’s narrative analysis model 2004 shows that non-Persian sentences of this novel represent social and cultural situation of the main character. Material and relational processes have been used more than the other processes. Most parts of this work have been narrated in third-person reflector and from the viewpoint of different characters. Negative shading is dominant in this narration and free direct speech is found more than the other types of speech and thought presentation. This novel includes a lot of intertextual relations in different fields. But nonlinear textual structure of this narration is not analyzable through Simpson’s model. Additionally, incoherence and uncertainty in this postmodern novel are represented through non-Persian parts, different narrators with various narrations, negative shading, words of estrangement, quoting characters’ speech in free direct form without reporting clause, anachronisms and numerous intertextualities.

Keywords

Lady Azadeh and Her Author

postmodern novel

Simpson

Narratology

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