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Psychoanalytic Criticism of the Story "Hana" From Aiin Nowruzi

Homayun Jamshidian

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2023.364360.1954

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The story Hana, in the anthology "Weather for Several Days of the Year" by Aiin Nowruzi, probes into the recounting of a man's separation from his beloved, Darya. Yet, intriguingly, ... Read More The story Hana, in the anthology "Weather for Several Days of the Year" by Aiin Nowruzi, probes into the recounting of a man's separation from his beloved, Darya. Yet, intriguingly, the narrative often veers towards the man's niece, Hana, born around the time of his parting with Darya. Through subtle cues in the text, it becomes apparent that the narrator's feelings, actions, and words carry deeper, symbolic connotations. The author intricately weaves details, seemingly diverting attention from the central theme, perhaps to conceal its true essence. The aim here is to decode and interpret the concealed meanings while striving for coherence within the narrative. Employing a Freudian psychoanalytic lens, the text is explored akin to a dream, where an underlying, more significant level remains obscured beneath the surface. Adopting an inductive research approach, the analysis unravels the symbols and signs embedded within the text, which serve as manifestations of the narrator's subconscious. These symbols, while holding inherent meanings, are suppressed expressions of truths concealed by the narrator, from both himself and the audience. Central questions arise: What causes the ambiguity and contradictions in the narrator's discourse and actions? What roles do the symbols play in the narrative, and can they be organized into a meaningful structure? By dissecting the components of the text and its supporting evidence, it becomes evident that the narrator channels the sorrow of separation from Darya, his longing to reunite, and his desire for offspring through mechanisms like displacement and integration, manifested as symbols such as darkness, underground spaces, numbers, and unconventional behavior and speech. Hana operates on two levels: the surface events recounted by the narrator and the deeper layer of inferred ambiguities and contradictions. To address this dissonance, it is proposed that the narrator not only conceals truths from the audience but also from himself. Through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis, the story is revisited and interpreted, ultimately revealing that Darya is veiled behind the narrative. The entirety of the tale, supported by textual evidence, emerges as a dream experienced by the narrator upon waking, showcasing elements of displacement and integration. Darya's presence permeates the narrative, subtly observed despite her name remaining unspoken.

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Analysis Similes in Masnavi Hasht-Behesht of Amir Khosro Dehlavi

habib roohi keykanloo; hosein hasanpour; ahmad ghanipour malekshah

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 21-46

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2023.360624.1937

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Hasht-Behesht is one of Amirkhosrow’s five Masnavids written in response to Nezami’s Haft-Peikar. By examining the similes in this poem, we found that the similes used by ... Read More

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Types of Humor in the Works of Prominent Poets of the Seljuk Period

ghahreman shiri

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 47-71

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2023.360902.1941

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The course of satirical writing in Iran is closely related to political history. In the periods when poets and writers have benefited from relative freedom, satirical writing has also ... Read More

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Manifestations of Situational Irony in the 6th Chapter of Baharestan of Jami

Abdoreza Seif; Arad Gholami

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 73-90

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.362913.1950

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Irony as a word means mockery, ridicule, derision, and the like. In Persian literature, there have been many names for all kinds of jokes, with different credits. In contemporary research ... Read More Irony as a word means mockery, ridicule, derision, and the like. In Persian literature, there have been many names for all kinds of jokes, with different credits. In contemporary research in this field, irony is used as a word for all texts that are characterized by laughter. In fact, irony is a type of literature that magnifies evil and ugliness. In this descriptive-analytical research, the general and expanded meaning of irony, which includes concepts such as lampoon and facetiae, is used, and after examining the definition and scope of the concept of irony and specifically, situational irony, we will analyze this genre in the sixth chapter of Jami’s prose work called Baharestan in order to identify the various statuses that create irony in this text; Finally, we try to analyze why certain statuses are used more frequently. So, in this research, at the theoretical level, the most frequent statuses used to create the situational irony in the classical Persian literature have been discussed and then, at the applied level, the situational irony in a specific literary work has been analyzed using those theoretical tools. On one hand, the descriptive dimension of this paper is based on the explanations about irony, in general, and the situational irony and the statuses which make it, in particular. On the other hand, the analytical aspect of this research is based on the implementation of the aforesaid analysis in the sixth chapter of Jami’s Baharestan. The findings of this research show that Jami has used situational irony in more than half of the passages of the sixth chapter of Baharestan, and his most frequent use in creating situational irony has been the status of disagreeable characteristics. In this way, he has ironized both external undesirable traits, such as ugliness, and inner unsavory characteristics, such as oppression. In addition, Jami’s use of eight different situations out of the ten most frequent situations that create situational irony in classical Persian literature has displayed a high diversity in the aforementioned book.

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Investigating the element of place in the novel Guantanamo written by Yousuf Zidan from the perspective of semiotics and based on Peirce's approach

abbas najafi; Javad Ranjbar

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 91-109

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.363012.1951

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The science of semiotics is the knowledge of examining semantic implications. Charles Sanders Peirce of the structuralist semioticians used the concept of "signification" to explain ... Read More

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The Oldest Newly Found Heteromeric Poem by Nima Yušij

Mahdi Olyaei Moghaddam

Volume 12, Issue 4 , March 2024, Pages 111-132

https://doi.org/10.22059/jlcr.2024.371740.1976

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The oldest example of free verse in Nimā Yušij's literary output is commonly assumed to be the poem "Phoenix" (Qoqnus), which is dated 1316 Š. /1937. This poem was published ... Read More

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Psychoanalytic Criticism of the Story "Hana" From Aiin Nowruzi

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Analysis Similes in Masnavi Hasht-Behesht of Amir Khosro Dehlavi

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Types of Humor in the Works of Prominent Poets of the Seljuk Period

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Manifestations of Situational Irony in the 6th Chapter of Baharestan of Jami

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Investigating the element of place in the novel Guantanamo written by Yousuf Zidan from the perspective of semiotics and based on Peirce's approach

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The Oldest Newly Found Heteromeric Poem by Nima Yušij

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