A Look at the Absence of the Myth of Arash in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh from the Perspective of Paradigm Analysis

kazemifar, moein; rezaei dasht arzhaneh,  mahmood

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kazemifar M, rezaei dasht arzhaneh M. A Look at the Absence of the Myth of Arash in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh from the Perspective of Paradigm Analysis. LIRE 2023; 20 (80) :23-27
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A Look at the Absence of the Myth of Arash in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh from the Perspective of Paradigm Analysis

Moein kazemifar ^*

¹, mahmood rezaei dasht arzhaneh

1- , kazemimoein@gmail.com

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Although Ferdowsi's Shahnameh contains many narrations of Iranian myths, there are myths, that Ferdowsi did not address for some reason. One of the most controversial myths that are not present in the Shahnameh is the myth of Arash Kamangir. Some scholars believe that Ferdowsi did not intentionally refer to this myth, and others believe that this myth was not in Ferdowsi's sources. However, this research tries to look at this issue from the perspective of "paradigm analysis" And show that in the Shahnameh paradigm, the natural and obvious act is choosing life over death and the act of consciously and intentionally choosing death has never occurred by the heroes. In other words, the choice of deliberate death or martyrdom is an issue that is outside the Shahnameh paradigm. And Arash's myth could not have a place in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh because it is a story in praise of martyrdom. This is the result of comparing the paradigms that govern the Shahnameh and the myth of Arash, while the deliberate choice of death is absent in the paradigm of the Shahnameh, it is emphasized and praised in the paradigm of the myth of Arash. Hence, the paradigmatic contradiction between the two texts has prevented the presence of such a myth in the Shahnameh.

Keywords: The Shahnameh and the story of Arash, the paradigm of death and life in the Shahnameh, the paradigmatic analysis of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh..

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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Classical literature
Received: 2021/03/30 | Accepted: 2022/01/17 | Published: 2023/04/30

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