Abstract:
In the course of history, due to the typical features they have developed, a number of external forms have leveled up by themselves reaching the higher level of genre. Hence, when there is a talk of Sa’di’s Ghazal, it should be remembered that, with time, this poetic form has developed a few capacities and shown a number of skills and risen to the level of a particular genre; consequently, it has formed such subcategories as lyric, mystic, combined (talfiqi) , sociopolitical, and post-modern ghazals. This classification is based not only on the content but also on the form. The writer has dealt with the way Ghazal has evolved into a genre in itself.
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An Introduction to the Typology of Saadi's Works Dr. Seyed Mehdi Zarghani Abstract Some external forms, throughout their own history, due to the characteristics they have acquired, have risen from the level of form and external mold to a higher level called genre; just as when we speak of Saadi's ghazal, it must be known that this ghazal, throughout history, has been able to acquire capabilities and demonstrate talents that allow it to rise above the level of a mere name of a mold and reach the level of a genre; and as a result, it has developed sub-genres such as romantic ghazal, mystical ghazal, hybrid ghazal, political-social ghazal, and postmodern ghazal.
On the contrary, they themselves classified works into specific molds based on the requirements, characteristics, and attributes that the works possessed, assigning them specific titles, and they wrote books defining these types and sub-types or sub-genres; although not in the way it is done today and with the configuration that the subject of typology or the genre approach holds for us today; for example, suppose when you come to the so-called "majalis" in classical literature—and it is clear that this term is applied to a specific number of texts with specific characteristics—in their view, this was a genre or a type.
In our own definition of genre, we state it as follows: to determine the genre of works, we pay attention not only to content and not only to form, but to a set of formal and content-related characteristics and place them under a single title.
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