Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 1، Apeil 2024 ، issue Number 95

Criticism of the application of structuralism theory on ancient Persian texts (in Persian scientific-research articles published in 1991-2011)

Mohammad Razmi (Author in Charge), Taghi Pournamdarian

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Constructivism is one of the important theories of the 20th century that was used in different fields; From anthropology, mythology and psychoanalysis to literary studies. In the literary researches carried out in the late fourteenth century of Iran, we gradually see its use on some of the ancient Persian texts.

METHODOLOGY: This research is based on the library study method following the analysis of scientific-research articles published on this topic in the seventies and eighties and the pathology of the application of the theory of constructivism on ancient texts in them.

FINDINGS: The review of the scientific-research articles written in the mentioned time frame shows that the most important damage occurred is the lack of application of theory in many of the mentioned researches; In such a way that most of these articles - even if they have a correct understanding of the foundations and goals of the theory - can be presented in the same way by removing the title and propositions of the constructivist theory. Therefore, the theory has a redundant function in them and has been used only for the apparent validation of the research. Among the other obvious problems, we can mention things like "misunderstanding the basics of the theory", "giving originality to the theory and selecting the text in order to prove it" and "failure to obtain new results".

CONCLUSION: The use of new theories in the knowledge of ancient texts can create new capacities in the knowledge of texts, but neglecting the aforementioned damages has led to the mass production of articles that are mostly promotional and due to the lack of presenting new achievements, it also affects subsequent research. They haven"t had much.

Keyword
structuralism , ancient Persian texts , pathology , literary theory , application of theory to text.

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