Journal Article

A Comparative Study of the Rhetorical and Aesthetic Function of Persian Ghadiriyyas Before and After the Constitution

Soleimanpour, Fateme, Fouladi, Alireza, Madani, Amir Hossien

2024

Overview

The visible and hidden layers of literary compositions can be better understood and highlighted by making comparisons between different literatures. This method makes it clear which literature is superior to the others in terms of perspectives and linguistic power. The philosophical field of aesthetics explores many facets of beauty and can improve the enjoyment of reading literature. Given the importance of the Mashruteh Era, knowing the viewpoints of liturgical poets before and after the Mashruteh Movement is vital. This research uses a comparative-analytical approach to investigate the most notable Ghadiriyyas in Persian poetry spanning from the Qajar era to the early Mashruteh Era and the eighties. This research is an effort to identify the most common components that enhance aesthetics. The findings show that before the Mashruteh Era, literature had considerably improved both in terms of quantity and variety—as well as rhetorical strategies—than subsequently. From a linguistic standpoint, musical repetition is the most often used element. Free repetition, dissonant puns, and assonance repetition were more common before the Mashruteh Era, while the Zoghafiatain was more common in regular repetition. After the Mashruteh Era, assonance repetition and dissonant puns in free repetition, as well as portmanteau in regular repetition, achieved the highest frequency. Allusion became the most popular literary device following the Mashruteh Era, whereas simile was the most common rhetorical method in poetry written before that time.

• Publisher: University of Isfahan
• Subject: Aesthetics / Assonance / constitutional / didactic literature / Literary criticism / persian ghadiriyas / Persian language / Poetry / Repetition / rhetorical function / Word play