A comparative study of story elements in 22nd Tale of Golestan and Poor Heinrich

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of German Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of German Faculty of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad Universitiy. Centeral Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/jor.2024.366956.2468

Abstract

In recent years, the comparison and matching of literary works of different ethnicities and nations have attracted the attention of researchers as well as readers and critics and, these comparative studies have provided a suitable platform for evaluating the structural and content commonalities and similarities of two or more works from different languages and cultures. The main goal of comparative research is to identify the theme and content of literary works and, then, an approach to criticize them. In this regard, the present study tries to compare the fundamental elements of the story in the two Persian and German works, the 22nd story of of Golestan written by Saadi and the story of poor Heinrich, written by Hartmann von Aue, to find out the similarities and differences between them, in dealing with a single topic, and reveal its cause. Investigation and analyzing the themes of these two works like writing style, perspective, character, and characterization can considerably help in understanding the society and social environment of the writers' era. The results of this study show that despite the common thread, each author has reached different results. This research has been done in a library and document research method with a comparative approach and from the point of view of the American school (similarities and contrasts).

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 30, Issue 1
March 2025
Pages 111-135

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