پژوهش های تاریخی (Aug 2015)
The Reasons of Authors' TrendtowardDream-Interpretation Texts
Abstract
Dream-interpretation texts are one kind of literary texts which are divided into two categories: 1-interpretation of a dream 2- explanation of a dream. Qajar era is one of the considerable historical periods for dream-interpretation writing. In this period, dream-interpretations texts also contain critical, political and social contents. Among these dream-interpretation texts, Etemad Saltane’s Ecstasy, Seid Jamal-A-Din’s True Dream, Mohammad Hassane TajereKashani’s True Dream and Molla Fathalie Esfehani’s Wonderful Dream are considerable. This article aims to reveal not only the reasons of authors for choosingdream-interpretation framework but also similarities and differences ofthem based on historical researches by employing analytical – descriptive approach. The results of this study demonstrates that despite of some slight different viewpoint among authors of this kind of books, they not only had critical perspective but also endeavored to spread modern ideas by criticizing the socio-political system of that age. These authors selected dream-interpretation framework to express their critical ideas in order not to be engaged in despotic atmosphere.
