Analysis of Saadi's Political Thought in the Interaction and Confrontation of Discourse Systems (Case Study of Four Odes of Praise)

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
fateme arabzade 1
Qodratollah Taheri 2
Nasrin FaghihMalekmarzban 3
1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literarture, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran
10.2634/Lire.22.90.105
Abstract
Imagology is a branch of comparative literature that examines the image of the "I" and the "other" in a literary work. The development of relationships, travel and communication caused the Iranian "me" to be more exposed to the culture, customs and opinions of the European "other" and to correct old mental assumptions or to start creating new mental stereotypes. Today we are left with many travelogues from the Qajar era that can be cited as valid evidence to examine the image of “the other”. Ezz al-Doulah's Travelogue in Europe is one of the first anecdotes from the point of view of an Iranian prince. The purpose of this research is to examine the images described in Ezz al-Doulah's Travelogue in Europe and to clarify how the image of "the other" is reflected in the work and at the same time, show how the Iranian "me" presents itself during the observations. To this end, we will use the descriptive-analytical method in data analysis, and we will specifically use Ditze's view of imagology. This research shows that the representation of images from the traveler's point of view emphasizes "the superiority of the identity of the other" from different dimensions and to "ignore one's own identity".
Keywords
Saadi's odes
analysis of discourse and political thought
religious discourse in Saadi's poetry
rationalism in Saadi's poetry
self and other in Saadi's poetry.
Subjects
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Literary Research
Volume 22, Issue 90
Winter 2026
Pages 105-138