Document Type : applied research
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1 shirazuniverdity
2 Shiraz university
Abstract
Investigating into imaginary images in Manichaean Verse Texs: Emphasis on Metaphor
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Among Iranian literature before Islam the Manichaean literature differs evidently from other Middle Persian works. Although the Manichaean literature has followed ancient literary traditions it has experienced other fields due to its dependence on non-Iranian literary movements such as Mesopotamian. Under the high influence of their religious leader, Mani, the Manichaean literature benefited from Aramaean literary traditions, used new literary paradigms and allegory, simile, trope and metaphor due to its mystical content; such literary devices presented a type of perfection in rhetoric and were new in Persian literature. In present essay metaphor is examined in the Manichaean literature in a way that the types of literary devices and poetic imaginations indicate a long and continuous history beyond Persian literature. The metaphor used in the Manichaean poems indicate a type of perfection in poetic imagination used by the Manichaean views and at the same time, are very important in viewpoint of Iran literature history. Having examined the metaphors in this essay the most frequent metaphors are as follows: the explicit metaphor, allegorical metaphor, Tabaeieh metaphor (When the metaphor is a verb or one of its derivatives) and antiphrasis, respectively.
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