Document Type : Original Article
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Persian language and literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj ,Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran
Abstract
Brian McHale's theory of postmodernism ontology has been applied on two short stories by Abu Torab Khosravi from his "Hawiyah" collection. For McHale postmodernism ontology is essential because it can shift the narrative from modernism to postmodernism. This study aims to investigate the postmodern ontology in the selected stories by Abu Torab Khosravi. Based on McHale's theory, postmodern works are predominant in the ontological and epistemological aspects of cognitive existence. Postmodernist ontology deals with the creation of multiple parallel worlds and pervasive ambiguity and uncertainty. The unity and certainty of the world are questioned, leading to uncertainty and pluralism, but in modernism the world is based on unity and certainty. This study aims to investigate the uncertainty and plurality in two "Green Tavern" and "Night Journey", short stories by Abu Torab Khosravi. This research has been conducted based on the qualitative and descriptive-analytical method in which the data was collected using the library and document analysis method. Using the content analysis method, the findings show that postmodernism ontology is the dominant element in the selected works in which multiple worlds in parallel have been created and the works are postmodern as ontology has a higher position than epistemology does.
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