Abstract:
In recent years, the comparison and matching of literary works of different ethnicities and nations have attracted the attention of researchers as well as readers and critics and, these comparative studies have provided a suitable platform for evaluating the structural and content commonalities and similarities of two or more works from different languages and cultures. The main goal of comparative research is to identify the theme and content of literary works and, then, an approach to criticize them. In this regard, the present study tries to compare the fundamental elements of the story in the two Persian and German works, the 22nd story of of Golestan written by Saadi and the story of poor Heinrich, written by Hartmann von Aue, to find out the similarities and differences between them, in dealing with a single topic, and reveal its cause. Investigation and analyzing the themes of these two works like writing style, perspective, character, and characterization can considerably help in understanding the society and social environment of the writers' era. The results of this study show that despite the common thread, each author has reached different results. This research has been done in a library and document research method with a comparative approach and from the point of view of the American school (similarities and contrasts).
Machine summary:
In line with this, the present research seeks to examine the most important narrative elements in two Persian and German works – the twenty-second story of Saadi’s Golestan and Heinrich von Ofterdingen, written by Hartmann von Aue – through a comparative study, to explore the similarities and differences between the two works in addressing a single topic and reveal its cause.
Keywords: Comparative Literature, American School, Narrative Elements, Saadi, Story 22 of Golestan, Hartmann von Aue, Heinrich von Ofterdingen.
In other words, French researchers were more interested in finding sources of inspiration and historical evidence that would support the literary connections between nations and express their susceptibility to each other, but the American comparative school placed aesthetics and attention to criticism and analysis at the top of the adaptation work (Nazari Nazm 221).
Since the American school of Comparative Literature provides a suitable platform to analyze the themes, perspectives, and concepts hidden in literary works regardless of their language and geography, this article aims to use the comparative approach of the American school (similarities and differences) to criticize and examine ___________________________________________________________ 1 Comparative literature 2 Ferdinand Brunetiere to address the most important narrative elements of these two works, in order to reveal the perspectives and intellectual and belief foundations of these two Persian and German-speaking writers in addressing a common theme, and in this regard, it seeks to answer the following questions: - Considering the noticeable similarities between the two works, what is their source of inspiration?
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