Mythological criticism of the novels Heavenly Kingdom and Yakolya and Her Loneliness

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

Fateme Heydari ¹ , Saman Khani Esfandabad ²

1 - دانشیار زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج. ایران، کرج
2 - دانش آموخته ی کارشناسی ارشد زبان وادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرج.

Received: 2016-09-01 Accepted : 2016-09-01 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: ملکوت, psychology, روان شناسی, نقد ادبی, اُسطوره, یَکُلیا و تنهایی او, literary criticism. myths, Heavenly Kingdom, Yakolya and Her Loneliness,

Abstract :

Psychology as a science indicates that the suppressed wishes of a writer and his daily unfulfilled dreams could be realized in his works, but these works are narrated through symbols and motifs as well as myths. The restructured myths, however, find new meanings due to the time they are used, and so reflect different themes and interpretation of life. In this way they bear an intellectual aura. Each generation receives and interprets the myths in accordance with his needs, motivations and ideological beliefs. The post-coup (August, 19th, 1953) generation of writers deal mostly with themes of war, suffering, sin and death, indicating that the individuals or the society experiences a significant crisis of being. In stories of Heavenly Kingdom and Yakolya and Her Loneliness the recurring theme of death wipes out the pleasant and delightful living of characters. Bahram Sadeqi and Taqi Modarressi substitute, in a surrealistic style, the usual with the unusual, and make the strange and supernatural consequences familiar. Weir and bizarre events appear quite conventional and customary in their illusory world. Believing in individualism and the then social suppression drives the intellectual writers of these two stories refer to the burden of a difficult life derived from specific socio-historical conditions as mythical pains of human beings. Archetypal approach on the background of mythological criticism has a literary work interpreted as a prototype or archetype, and this research studies the above-mentioned stories via an archetypal approach.