متن شناسی ادب فارسی (Feb 2016)

Mythological criticism of Darab name tarsusi

  • amir abas azizifar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 4
pp. 101 – 118

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Darab name tarsusi is one of the most known of Persian folktales that has a high research capacity. Symbolic criticism and its cryptic capacity, myth criticism, epic criticism and surrealistic aspects of this story is that it will shows its important. Tarsusi brought out a prose religious- historical epic, with adaptation of national epic, that it show his knowledge and acquainted. The role of epics and national epic characters in this fiction, no doubt, is very effective. In this fiction iskandar, however, has same epic- heroic function as rustam, isfandyar and sam(in sam name of khajo- kermani). This research done in a descriptive-analytical and library attitude, and we sought to understand to know that how many acquainted tarsusi with national and transnational mythology and are we can separate and sort mythology and beliefs. After reviewing we are sorted them in this kind: myths and beliefs that are Iranian origin, myths and beliefs that are Islamic origin and myths and beliefs that are sami origin.

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