Document Type : Research Paper
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Assistant Professor of Kashan University
10.29252/kavosh.2024.20435.3454
Abstract
Introduction, preface, or foreword counts as an intimate meeting with the writer or as an entrance to the text or discussion which shows the worth of writers work and the readers decide whether that work is beneficial and read worthy or useless and not worthy of their time, after reading it. Although no serious study has been conducted on the introductions written by contemporary researchers, but these prefaces, including introductions written by Abd Al-Hosein Zarrinkūb, can be studied from different angles. A sea of knowledge, thought and enlightenment lies in these introductions, which act as the report cards of the writer’s soul, including related and sometimes unrelated literary information, dispersed takes on science, literature, history and culture, correct methodology, information on bibliography and personality psychology of the writer, his wishes and regrets, successes and failures, compliments and reprimands, beliefs, feelings, emotions, despairs, displeasures, recommendations and functions. Using a analytical-descriptive methodology, this study struggles to mention countless importance, uses and values of Zarrinkūb’s works under five topics, and prove that there is a direct relation between “preface and wisdom”.
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