Abstract:
The blending of myth and story in modernist and postmodernist narratives is one of the techniques that causes the narrative to lean towards a metaphorical pole and, by passing through the channel of metaphor, move towards nesting and layering, forcing the audience to grasp the mythical structure of the story hidden in the deepest layers of the text and arrange the parts of the narrative based on it to approach an understanding of the story. In this writing, using Jakobson's theory regarding the metaphorical and metonymic poles of language, the deep mythical structure of several short stories by Shahriar Mandanipour has been analyzed and explained. It has been shown that in these stories, sometimes a mythical character replaces a fictional character, and sometimes mythical time is placed in the position of fictional time; meaning the mental past of a character in the story occurs in a qualitative time, and the time between past, present, and future is in flux, and the author substitutes these times for one another. In some cases, a story replaces a mythical story, albeit within its entirety, and in some cases, a mythical narrative replaces the overall narrative of the story. In the text of the article, Mandanipour's stories have been analyzed at five levels—character description and creation, treatment of time, description of place, plot, and macro-level narrative—based on the structural characteristics of mythical narrative, revealing that the most significant substitution has occurred at the level of time.
Machine summary:
In the text of the article, Mandipoor's stories have been analyzed at five levels: character description and creation, temporal treatment, spatial description, plot structure, and macro-level narration, based on the structural characteristics of mythical narrative, revealing that most substitution occurs at the level of time.
Metaphorical and metonymic poles of language, Jakobson, mythical narrative, short story, Shahriar Mandipoor Introduction The connection between myth and literature is inevitable from various aspects and for different reasons.
Therefore, "new fiction literature, which has a symbolist tendency and is a reaction against traditional realism, tends toward the metaphorical pole" (Lodge, 1386: 51-52) and this means, "functioning on the axis of selection means choosing one sign instead of another based on similarity and tendency toward what Jacobson calls the metaphorical pole" (Safavi, 1390, Vol. 2: 108) and finally, the becoming of the story mysterious and the presentation of a new structure and form of language, which consists of the "free play of signs" (Payandeh, 1388: 100).
What gives novelty to the present research is the attention to the metaphorical nature of language in myth on one hand, and in modernist and postmodernist fiction on the other, and of course, the explanation of the mythical-metaphorical deep structure of the story with the help of a scientific linguistic theory.
In this article, by using Jacobson's views regarding the metaphorical and metonymic poles of language, and also considering the linguistic-narrative structure specific to myth, which essentially tends toward the metaphorical pole of language, the mythical deep structure of some of Mandanipour's stories has been analyzed.
2- Metaphorical-mythicalization of time Based on its essentially narrative structure, myth has an identity and a very strong connection with fictional literature, especially the novel.
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