Friday, January 15, 2010

Organic symbole: Nima Yusij innovation in form

My printed essay in Persian
Abstract:

This article attempts to discuss about Nima Yushij innovation in form. Nima's innovation is not limited only in breaking traditional and metrical form but also he created a new poetic form which there is no precedent for that in Persian history of literature. This form is called "organic symbol" in this article that has special poetic structure in which an image is canonized and gradually comes over the whole poem and finally transforms into a symbolic meaning. This form was accepted by contemporary poets after Nima so the most famous poems in Persian modern poetry are written in this form. This article discusses about quality and structure of this poetic form, proceeding of its shaping and genesis and expresses effective factors in its creation in the modern period of Persian history.

Key words: Nima Yushij, organic form, central image

Friday, December 14, 2007

Rumi's biographies

Critical discourse analysis of Rumi's biographies

By Mahmood Fotoohi.
no printed.

This article attempts to show two different portrait of Jalal Al-Ddin Movlavi (1207-1273 A.D) through his main works and his biographies. And discuses how biographers did construct a social discourse from Rumi's spiritual heritage, and how did they establish a powerful ideology and social organization. The tree famous biographies of Jalal al-Ddin have been studied closely in critical discourse analysis method in orders to discus the formation procedure of Movlaviyan sect in Anatolia. This study, shows the first biography, Valad Nameh (1291 A.D.) shows a real image of Jalal Al-Ddin as a moral and spiritual Sufi, the second text Resale-ye Sepahsalar (ac. 1291-1312 A.D) have made a mystical protagonist and the third text Managheb al- Arefin (ac. 1353 A.D) exhibited Jalal Al_Ddin and his successors as powerful saints who perform great miracles, and how the biographers constitute an ideological sect and social discourse from the mystical experiences.
Key words:
Movlavi's biographies, critical discourse analysis, ideology, power

say and say

They bring shame and dishonor, when speak.
So they mean look us such an ugly we are!
When they speak Just keep still.
Let them to say and say and die.
They do die, because their words don't come from their expression and experience. (Shams of Tabriz, the Rumi's master. Maghalat. P. 643)