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- کد IranDOI مقاله: IranDOI:10.irandoi.2002/bahareadab.2026 .18 .8045
volume Number : 18
number In Volume : 11
issue Number : 117
Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
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issue Number 117
The Negation of Grand Narratives from Lyotard’s Perspective in the Postmodernist Works of Mohammad Reza Kateb
Shirin Behboudian , Parvaneh Adelzadeh (Author in Charge), Kamran Pashaei Fakhri
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Jean-François Lyotard is one of the prominent theorists of postmodernism in the contemporary era who proposed significant characteristics and components for postmodernist works. Lyotard laid the foundations of his theory by presenting the plan of the collapse and collapse of grand narratives and their negation and rejection. In this research, we seek to discuss and examine the negation of grand narratives in the fictional works of one of the prominent postmodernist writers in Iran, namely Mohammad Reza Kateb, in order to evaluate the basic characteristics of the negation of grand narrative in his prominent novels.
METHODOLOGY: This essay will be conducted in a descriptive-analytical manner based on library studies and relying on contemporary literary theory regarding the negation of grand narrative by Lyotard in a selection of the postmodernist works of Mohammad Reza Kateb, a contemporary writer.
FINDINGS: The research findings show that contemporary literature and fiction can, as a philosophical text, negate and reject macro-narratives; as in the fiction works of Mohammad Reza Kateb, the main characteristics of negating macro-narratives with an emphasis on uncertainty and negating any presuppositions can be observed.
CONCLUSION: In Mohammad Reza Kateb’s novels, the narrative structure in the direction of negating macro-narratives can be observed, in accordance with Lyotard’s model. The presence of components such as uncertainty, suspense, doubt and doubt about the established truth, the collapse and incoherence of identity, and the proliferation of meaning show that Mohammad Reza Kateb has founded his fictional world on the basis of the discrediting of macro-narratives.
Keyword
Contemporary literature. Mohammad Reza Kateb. Postmodern nov
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