Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Ph.D. student of Persian language and literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran
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Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran.
Abstract
Narratology of Folk tales and legends of Isfahans' people based on Grimas' theory of
action
One of the successful areas of structuralism has been narratology, which studies the nature, form, and functions of narratives. Greimas, as one of the structuralist narratologists, proposed his theory to achieve an overall structure of narratives and was able to derive the grammatical structure of narratives after examining the meaning of sentence construction. Thus, his action model is applicable in the structure of all narratives. This research aims to conduct a descriptive-analytical study using library resources and narrative analysis methods to explore the narratology of stories and folk tales from the people of Isfahan based on Greimas's action model. The results indicate the presence of agent actors, object actors, or inhibitors in all narratives, the existence of recipient, sender, and helper actors in most narratives, the similarity of agent and recipient factors in most tales, and highlight the importance of agents and objects as the two main fundamental actors of the narratives; Therefore, this scholarly endeavor shows that the tales and folk narratives of the people of Isfahan, in addition to having structure and narrative coherence, possess the scientific validity and applicability to be analyzed using Greimas's action theory.
Keywords: Narrative, Narratology, Tale and Folktale, Action Model, Greimas.
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