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The Role of Allegoric Philosophy in Molavi’s Storytelling in the Masnavi. LIRE 2007; 4 (16) :183-198
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Allegory represents a type of thinking and world view as well as a style of speech in Molavi’s works, Masnavi in particular. In Molalvi’s “allegoric philosophy”, what makes necessary the use of this approach – as the principal narrative style of the tales – is the necessity to carry ideas over into sense impressions. Molavi presents the theoretical foundations of this thought in Fihe-ma-Fih, and practically portrays the thought in the Masnavi.   This allegoric philosophy which is based on the two-dimensional nature of allegory – narrative surface structure and intellectual deep structure – furnishes the tale with a double structure; one functioning as literary allegory and the other as spiritual and philosophical allegory. In the writer’s narrative style, this leads to the reduction of some essential elements of a story such as suspense. It could be seen that in the Masnavi’s stories the two structural dimensions mix along the narrative line of the story in a form known as “representation building”. Another manifestation of allegory in Molavi’s works is “allegoric interpretation”, used to describe the coded and implicit themes of stories, whose main function in all its forms is “to teach”. 

 
 
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Article Type: مقالات علمی پژوهشی | Subject: Classical literature
Received: 2019/10/15 | Accepted: 2019/10/15 | Published: 2019/10/15

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