A comparative study of the "polyphonic" component in contemporary Arabic and Persian novels with emphasis on Bakhtin's theories (Sooshun Simin Daneshvar- Miramar Najib Mahfouz)
Subject Areas : شعرZohreh Dastpak 1 , saeid hamidian 2 , Farhad Tahmasebi 3
1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran.
Keywords: Mikhail Bakhtin, polyphony, contemporary Arabic and Persian novel, dialogue logic,
Abstract :
The present research, using the opinions of Mikhail Bakhtin and especially the theory of polyphony, tries to comparatively analyze the discourses in the novels "Sushon" by Simin Daneshvar and "Miramar" by Najib Mahfouz and by using the descriptive-analytical method to reflect the polyphony in Pay these novels. The author evaluates these novels based on Bakhtin's conversational logic and the components in it, and in the meantime, the research has answered the question of how polyphony is represented in the selected novels. The results of the research show that in the above stories we witness polyphony, but the form and manner of expression of this polyphony are different and in each story factors such as: gender, social and economic structure, intellectual currents in the form of two poles of self-awareness and cultural alienation are involved. The results of polyphony are represented in the form of components more than other factors. Women often have the role of following the thought that is issued from the moral reference of the story, and they generally strengthen the polyphony in the story with a partial style. The social and economic structure, class conflict, and intellectual currents in the stories, each of them create the field of discourse diversity by creating two opposite poles as the other.