A Study of "Point of View" in the Stories of Asrar-Nameh by Attar

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Isfahan

2 Graduated from the University of Isfahan with a master's degree in Persian language and literature

10.29252/kavosh.2011.2546

Abstract

In general, narration in a story is created at the same time the story is created. The identity of the stories are in the form of words and expressions, which are transferred to us by the inner voice of stories. This voice belongs to the narrators or who explain narrations to us. They can narrate the story from several voices to us which are called "point of view". They are selected purposefully by the writer. Attar has narrated in the Asrar Nameh from different points of view. Sometime he changes his point of view and the narrators in the same story. Sometime Attar changes the point of view of a story in the middle of another story, so we will have polyhedral narration. In Asrar Nameh, the narrators of the stories are easily identified but sometime it is united with another narrator at the end of story so we can't recognize narrators. Attar has made use of seven narrators or points of view in Asrar Nameh.
 

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Journal of Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature
Volume 12, Issue 23
March 2012
Pages 113-134

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