Critical preface on the methods of expressing ethical concepts in allegorical and animal anecdotes

Subject Areas : شاهنامه

shirzad Tayefi ¹ , saied Akbari ²

1 - دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
2 - کارشناسی ارشد ادبیات تطبیقی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی

Received: 2016-05-12 Accepted : 2016-05-12 Published : 2015-03-01

Keywords: secret, fable, symbol, ethic, allegorical literature,

Abstract :

One of the main literature branches that fundamentally consider ethics is allegorical literature. Generally speaking, in the field of ethics and literature we often see that the direct stating of ethical contents has been reviewed by critics. Most of these criticisms have considered allegorical literature which always includes explicit expression of ethical implications. In other words, in these critical discussions, we face various ideas concerning concepts such as: secret, symbol, fable, which they have close relationship with allegorical literature and stating the ethical implication. Therefore, it needs a decent conclusion to reach a more deep understanding of them and better understand the role of ethical content statement related to them. This research claims that the relation of explicit ethical contents should be seek in the allegorical anecdote structure. Some of the determinant factors of this research are: recognition of the fictional context of allegory and the border of imagination in allegorical anecdotes. In this research, by using library studies and descriptive-analytical method, we’ve studied those factors in detail and explained the structural and conceptual relation of allegorical anecdotes.