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

The Function of Narrative in Sheikh Attar Neyshaburi’s Tadhkirat-ul-Awliyā

Azar Daneshgar(Author in Charge)

Abstract
Narratology focuses on the structure of narrative which is a method of accounting using narration. Narrative can take different forms: verbal, written, moving or fixed images; thus, it includes a wide range of forms including: books, newspapers, novels, films, paintings, etc. Narrative is also found in various fields such as: literature, religion, philosophy and in general, in all the sciences. The present article examines the function of narrative in Attar’s Tadhkirat-ul-Awliyā based on the view of Genet. For this purpose, using analytic and descriptive methods, after explaining the theory of narrative based on the view of Genet, its main components including the time of the narrative which includes the length, sequence and frequency; facet or state of the narrative which includes distance and perspective; and tone or voice of the narrative which includes time and location of the narrator, that is, inner-text and outer-text narrator, are studied in Attar’s Tadhkirat. The most significant findings of the research indicate that due to the special structure of the stories of Attar, narratives are mostly in the form of axial dialogues along with omission or time compression as well as inner-textual, and at times outer-textual, repetition of some of the subject matters

Keyword
Attar , Tadhkirat-ul-Awliyā , narrative , focus of narrative , facet , tone

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