The study of hero and anti-hero in the play "Death of Yazdgerd"of Bahram Beizai (With an approach to the reader response theory of Wolfgang Iser)

Subject Areas : Literary criticism

Sayedeh Maryam Mirhosseini ¹ , Fatemeh Heidari ²

1 - PhD Student of Persian Language and Literature, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2021-09-26 Accepted : 2022-02-12 Published : 2022-03-01

Keywords: Reader Response Theory, The Death Of Yazdgerd, hero, Anti-Hero, Ideal Reader, Bahram Beizai, Wolfgang Iser,

Abstract :

In Persian literature, the word hero is mostly used in its classical sense in epic stories, and the anti-hero is used as the opposite of the main character of the story. And it is the encounter of opposing characters that shapes the narrative. Wolfgang Iser,,a German theorician who developed a theory for reading literary texts in the second half of the twentieth century, took a special look at the action of characters and intra-textual elements in the narrative. By shifting the focus of literary studies from author to reader, he turned to the methods of reading the text and believed that with a different reading of the literary work, the elements within the text would also change. In this descriptive and analytical method, we deal with the features of characters, anti-hero and heroism in the play "Death of Yazdgerd" by Bahram Beizai. Our aim in this study is to look as a perspective of the reader-centered Iser which character considers the hero and which the anti-hero. The results of this study show that the protagonist and the anti-hero paid for the ellipse do not necessarily follow the author's beliefs from the reader's point of view, and all the characters in the work can be of heroism or anti-heroism.

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