Story-Telling Process in the Anecdotes of Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa by Sanāʾi
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
Ali Mohammad Moazzeni
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استاد زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه تهران،تهران،ایران.(نویسنده مسئول)
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Monir Khalilian
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کارشناس ارشد زبان و ادبیات فارسی ،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج ،کرج ،ایران
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Keywords: سنایی, حکایات عرفانی, Sanāʾi, داستان&lrm, پردازی, کمینه&lrm, گرایی, حدیقه&lrm, الحقیقه, story-telling, mystical anecdote, Minimalism, Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa,
Abstract :
Sanāʾi Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa (The Garden of Truth) is a mystical and didactic book in verse conceived as a continuing discourse on a wide range of ethical and religious subjects in the form of stories, anecdotes and allegories. Brevity and simplicity is the main characteristic of the book, and this research aims, through a descriptive-analytic approach, to investigate the processing system of Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa stories, especially its short anecdotes, and to study the elements of characterization, plot, dialogues and setting in them. To do so, thirty anecdotes of Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa were selected to be investigated and analyzed. According to the obtained results Hadiqat-al-Haqiqa contains many features of minimalism such as conciseness, simple plot, abundance of dialogue, limited number of characters and episodes.
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