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Alireza Nabilou, Ph.D.
   
Abstract
Mowlavi is a theoretician poet in Persian literature whose works- especially Koliat-e-Shams and Massnavi- are enriched with critical views. In this paper Mowlavi's linguistic and literary views are discussed. This research was carried out by relying on contemporary literary criticism theories, particularly Roman Jakobson's Theory of Communication. The analysis of the major elements of communication, meaning the language's features and characteristics, message (poetry), sender (poet) and receiver (addressee) in Mowlavi's poetry construct the basis axis of this paper while each of these elements is divided into smaller components. In order to identify the position of Mowlavi's theories in the contemporary era, his standpoints have been compared with some other schools and literary criticism theories in brief. Among them the most prominent ones include; new criticism, formalisms, structuralisms, and supporters of reader-response theories. The capable reader versus the novice reader, active and inactive, concrete union, cohesion of poetry's form and content, relation between mind and language, link between signified and signifier, language codes etc are among the common discussions of the mentioned schools with Mowlavi's ideas.
 

Keywords: linguistic standpoint of Mowlana, literary point of view and Mowlana, Massnavi's speech features, classic Persian literature

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