Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Examining its levels and elements in the narrative plan of Hazrat Ali Akbar's Ta'ziyya

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Professor at Farhangian University of Nasibah, Tehran Professor at Central Tehran Islamic Azad University Student of Education and Education of the 9th district of Tehran
2 Full professor of Azad University, Yazd branch
3 Assistant professor at Department of Art, University of Tarbiat Modarres
4 Assistant professor at Department of Art, University of tehran markaz
5 Affiliated Faculty of Central Tehran Branch of Azad University
10.22034/jlc.2025.489148.1691
Abstract
Narratology provides a theoretical and practical framework and model for analyzing various types of narratives, including factual, historical, and narrative stories. The main part of the narrative description and narrative structure of the Ta’ziyyah ritual performance is a collection of educational and mystical narratives that have been transmitted through literary techniques, especially storytelling and narrative techniques, and the so-called narrative fiction literature. To analyze the narrative structure of the Ta’ziyyah ritual performance, it is necessary to use narratology theories and their theories such as narrative levels, plot, story, narrative text, narrative style of stories, This article is written in a descriptive-analytical manner using library and internet resources, and the research community is the Ta’ziyyah of Hazrat Ali Akbar performed in 1403 in the village of Quchan, Khansar. This article seeks to answer the question of how, based on narratological theories, we can analyze the narrative levels and “design” governing the Ta’ziyyah of Hazrat Ali Akbar and understand their form, structure, and constituent patterns. Conclusion: The narrative design of Hazrat Ali Akbar’s Ta’ziyyah is composed of an arrangement of 22 main motifs. The arrangement of these main motifs can be analyzed from the formal and semantic unity of the narrative design of the Ta’ziyyah. Accordingly, the narrative design of Hazrat Ali Akbar’s Ta’ziyyah is notable from the perspective of the methods of successive formation of multiple narrative levels; the blending and interweaving of these levels with each other; the successive failures of the narrative line, and narratological indicators.
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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 27 May 2025

  • Receive Date 22 November 2024
  • Revise Date 09 February 2025
  • Accept Date 04 March 2025