Examining the characteristics of the romance genre in the Seven Beauties مقاله

Автоматическая аннотация:

In terms of form and considering the degree of power ranking in this type of narrative literature, romance is applied to stories where the hero is not of the gods – as in myth – but of human origin; however, in terms of rank, he is superior to ordinary people and his environment. This fundamental characteristic applies to the main character (hero) of Haft Paykar, Bahram Gur. This article aims to examine the general principles and structure governing the romance genre and to assess the conformity of these principles with the story of Bahram's life in Haft Paykar and the inner stories of the work. 145) Many of the defining episodes of Haft Paykar, such as “Bahram killing the dragon,” “Bahram disappearing in the cave,” “Bahram seeing the faces of the seven figures in Khornaq,” “building seven domes,” and including seven episodic stories within the main framework, are created and developed by Nizami himself and benefit from his unique method of storytelling. The Seven Beauties is of the aristocratic romance type, and it narrates the events of the life of the heroic-historical character Bahram and seven inner stories. (A prominent example of this is in Khosrow and Shirin and among the stories of the Haft Paykar: the story of Bahram and Malika) The structure of the story in the romance tale is also likely rooted in this tradition of storytelling.