The function of myth and epic in the rhetorical layer of Nasrallah Mardani's religious ghazals

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1 phd in persian language and litertur hakim sabzevari university sabzevar iran

2 Associate Professor at Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar

10.22077/jcrl.2024.6882.1090

Abstract

Layered stylistics is one of the modern methods of stylistics that aims to establish a connection between the style of a work and its content. In layered stylistics, the text is analyzed in five layers: phonetic, lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and ideological. By examining these five layers, a literary critic can determine which of these levels is more prominent in an author's work. The present article aims to demonstrate to what extent Nasrollah Mardani has been successful in employing myth and epic in the rhetorical layer of his ghazals while serving as a prominent representative of contemporary ritual ghazal poetry. It shows in which parts of the rhetorical elements these applications are more visible. The fundamental issue in this research, performed in a descriptive-analytical method, is how the use of mythological and epic elements in Nasrollah Mardani's ghazals reflects the poet's personal literary style. In examining Mardani’s ghazals, it has been observed that the poet pays more attention to metaphor and simile among the rhetorical figures of meaning and allusion, parallelism, and personification, which is a type of metaphoric expression, are other artifices to which the poet has paid attention.

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Journal of Ritual Culture and Literature

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Available Online from 21 June 2024

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