An Analysis of intertextual relations in Khodadad Rezaei's play, “Bazi-e-Akhar”

Document Type : Original Article

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1 , Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Vali-e-Asr University, Rafsanjan, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Valiasr University of rafsanjan

3 M. A. Student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Vali-e-Asr University, Rafsanjan, Iran.

Abstract

Intertextuality is an important terminology of literary criticism that examines the relationship between literary texts in the domain of common and sometimes different styles and schools. One of the leading writers in this field is Gérard Genette, who also succeeded in producing the theory of transmittance by contemplating the views of earlier theorists. An Iranian playwright and director, Khodadad Rezaei, has numerous references to classical and contemporary texts in the play "Bazi-e-Akhar", which simplifies intertextual reading for his text critic. The present study, using a descriptive-analytical method and relying on library data, examines this play employing the important approach of intertextuality (Gérard Genette 's point of view) and acquaints the reader with the different perspectives of intertextuality theory. The main question raised in this article is “How will understanding the impact of the last game play from its predecessors help to understand the meaning of this work?” Based on the results of this study, the studied text with four other texts; Namely, "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, "The Story of Prophet Job (PBUH)", "Once again the city I loved" by Nader Ebrahimi and the legend of "A Thousand and One Nights" are closely related. This is achieved through an intertextual approach, one of Gérard Genette's views that is poststructuralist. Another interesting result of the research is that Rezaei, the author of "Bazi-e-Akhar", by quoting earlier texts and referring to these texts, has used their deep semantic capacities and with this technique, brevity has been observed in writing its text..

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