volume Number 10، number In Volume 4، Winter 2018 ، issue Number 38

A thematic study on children and adolescents’ literature in the forties and fifties of Solar Hijri calendar (sixties and seventies of Georgian calendar) based on 18 stories from 11 authors

Ali-Asghar Babasalar(Author in Charge), Hussein Almeri

Abstract
Social and political conditions of each period have molded and characterized its literature. Analyzing the literature in a historical period is only possible through scrutinizing the literature of the time. Examination of the themes which is indeed the main idea behind every literary work, including juvenile literature, is of utmost importance due to the fact that thorough understanding of the theme or content facilitates the perception of the story line and its characters which in turn helps the comprehension of the authors’ mentalities.In this study, eighteen juvenile stories from eleven authors have been considered as a mean of understanding the themes of the literary works of the mentioned period. All the eighteen stories which have different themes have been studied from the same analytical standpoint and results have been concluded from class gap, political, adventure, combination of epic and mysticism, group work, and educational and religious themes both in one story only. The results indicate that in the both aforementioned decades the main attention has been devoted to class gap, political, combination of epic and mysticism, contribution, and adventure themes respectively, while despite their importance, other themes have not been paid the attention they deserved by authors.

Keyword
Fiction , child and adolescent , Our school’s wall newspaper [ , The star and crows [Oldouz-va , The boy and the dream [Pesara , kalaagh-ha [crows]

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