Explaining The Position 0f Women in the Marriage Narrations of Shahnameh Tahmaspi, Based on the Intertextual Analysis of Text and Image

Subject Areas : Art and Architecture

Shohreh Doosti ¹ , Farzaneh Farrokhfar ² , Arman Yaghubpour ³

1 - University of Neyshabur, Department of Painting, Neyshabur, Iran.
2 - University of Neyshabur, Department of Art Studies, Neyshabur, Iran.
3 - University of Neyshabur, Department of Painting, Neyshabur, Iran.

Received: 2021-12-22 Accepted : 2021-12-24 Published : 2022-03-21

Keywords: Marriage narrations, Text and image, Shahnameh Tahmaspi, Women in Shahnameh, Intertextuality analysis,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to explain the position of women in the marriage narrations of Shahnameh Tahmaspi based on the intertextual analysis of text and images in Iran. The present study statistical universe included all the drawings of Tahmaspi Shahnameh. The sample subsumed 29 images in all of which women have an important and key role. The research design was descriptive-analytical. The data collecting method was through library documentary, observation and reviewing the intertextual drawings and analyzing the visual elements in the selected works. Data were analyzed using interdisciplinary studies and content analysis methods. The results showed that the position of women in Shahnameh marriage narrations were rooted in the mythological beliefs of Iranians and in this regard, had a special validity. Due to the mythological structure of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, fidelity and adherence to the principles of the original texts was quite clear. However, in the depiction of the paintings of Tahmaspi Shahnameh, there were obvious differences with the text, the source of which was the culture of the Safavid society and the beliefs of the patriarchal society of that period.

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