Studying the anecdote: “Roman Merchant’s son and the city of dumbs” written in “Hasht Behesht (Eight Heavens)” by Amir Khosro Dehlavi based on Joseph Campbell’s “The hero’s journey” myth pattern

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

mahbobeh poraga ¹ (PhD Student of the Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran)
Dr.ramin sadeginejad ² (Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran)
Dr.maryam mohammadzadeh ³ (Department of persian language and literature, Ahar branch, Islamic Azad University، Ahar- Iran)

Received: 2020-05-19 Accepted : 2020-05-19 Published : 2019-11-22

Keywords: Mythological Criticism, Amir Khosro Dehlavi, Joseph Campbell, hero’s journey, old patterns, “Hasht Behesht (Eight Heavens)”,

Abstract :

  Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, according to the viewpoints of Gustave Young, has dealt with hero’s journeys in different cultures and has proposed a pattern for such journeys in his book entitled: “multi-thousand facet hero”. This pattern has many sufficiency elements to analyze literary works. The book “Hasht Behesht (Eight Heavens)” by Amir Khosro Dehlavi is one of the works that can be compared with the pattern proposed by Joseph Campbell. The present research has dealt with investigating the anecdote: “Roman Merchant’s son and the city of dumbs” in a book written by Amir Khosro Dehlavi called “Hasht Behesht (Eight Heavens)”. The results showed that there has been a complete correspondence between all elements in this story and the pattern posed by Joseph Campbell except the two elements of “meeting the God or the lady or return to childhood joys” mentioned before the stepping of the hero in “tests’ roads”, reported in introduction and the step: “receipt of help from outside” before the stage called: “passing through the threshold level of heavenly life into the normal world” in the return part which are presented by Campbell as a probable period.