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Taghi Pournamdarian, Ph.D.
Zahra Hayati
 
Abstract
Most of the researches which have studied the relation between cinema and literature have paid attention to the differences of literary fiction and drama in the scripts. One of the other grounds in which the ties between literature and cinema can be further on traced is "creation of pictures".  The eloquent concepts of "figurative elements" and "forms of imagination" includes mental literary images and often infers to the implied figurative signs of the observer, being all listed in the science of expression in the variety of fields such as allegory, simile, trope, metaphor, irony and symbol. This article surveys the potentials of "literary allegories" in general and the "poetic allegories" of Massnavi and Shams Sonnets in particular for recreation in cinema's expressive device. The transition of literary allegories to cinema is possible through these potentials: 1. including several visual and animated, dynamic elements. 2. Conformity of pictures and concepts relevant to montage and stage direction. 3. The plenitude of pictures with the same width in the poetry length. 4. Including pictures with a distribution potential in the feature movie text due to the mystical content of completion. 5. Considering narrative texture and dramatic structure.
 
 

Keywords: cinematic expression, literary allegory, literary image, cinematic image, Molavi's poetry

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