Document Type : Original Article
Author
Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
In order to distinguish his storytelling style from that of the story-telling poets before him, such as Ferdowsi and Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani, Nezami has chosen a new style to enhance the value of poetic language, which is the extensive use of allusion. He knows that in this way he must be moderate so as not to displease the readers. In this article, the author analyzed the allusions of the story of Khosrow and Shirin in the style of Daniel Berlin from the perspective of experimental aesthetics and concluded that Nezami used allusions extensively to make the famous story of Khosrow and Shirin enjoyable for readers. By enhancing psychophysical properties (such as repetition of allusive words, puns, and synchronic allusions) and asymmetry properties (such as introducing new allusions, transforming allusions into metaphors, exaggeration, and contradiction), he tried to compensate for the lack of ecological properties of the story - due to the familiarity and commonplaceness of the meaning and concept of the story - and to bring its arousal potential to a balanced level so that readers will enjoy it and not get bored.
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