A Study on postmodern strategies of "Pir e Changi" of Mathnavi
Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature
Leila Rezaei
1
(Assistant professor in Persian Gulf, Univesity, Bushehr, Iran)
Abbas Jahedjah
2
(Associate professor in Payam e Noor University, Iran)
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Abstract :
Mathnavi – Ma'navi is the most innovative and wonderful work in classic Persian literature because of its new narrative strategies. These special strategies that jalal al-Din Rumi used in the narration of the tales that found In other Persian literature books before Mathnavi, have some resemblances with modern or postmodern narratives. One of these innovative narratives in Mathnavi is the fiction of "Pir e Changi" (the oldman who plays harp). Rumi has presented this fiction with many changes and so this narrative is not in the original form as mentioned in "Asrar al Tawhid (the mystery of Unification) by Mohammad ibn Monavvar. In this article this tale from mathnavi has been studied in the field of postmodern criticism by the theory of Brian Mchale. The result shows that we can find the evidences of postmodern fictions as: death of the author, autonomy of characters, the end of metafictions, open ending and the combination of parallel worlds.