Document Type : applied research

Authors

• fatemeh jabbari ghare bagh ¹
• Najmeh Dorri ²
• said Bozorg bigdeli ¹

¹ tarbiat modares university

² Tarbiat modares university

Abstract

The identity of a society is composed of various elements, one of the most important of which is literature and folk literature. The development of technology and the emergence of new technologies that have led to the creation of a global village have affected and threatened the native literature and culture of each region. This problem has caused the distance between people and literature to increase. The aim of the present study is to examine the current situation of the use of literature in the lives of Iranian people and to analyze the causes and obstacles for the marginalization of literature in the contemporary period. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 19 trustees, experts, and citizens, and the data were analyzed according to the application of the grounded theory technique, extracting 159 primary codes and 18 categories. Subsequently, these categories were presented within the framework of Strauss and Corbin's axial coding. The central phenomenon identified in this research, due to the concern of the interviewees and its repetition in all interviews, was "the lack of application of literature in people's lives." The reasons given for the decline in the presence of literature in society were "the predominance of the negative aspect of technology," "the lack of a sense of necessity in society," "the weakness of the educational system," "the lack of awareness of the public," and "the diversity and weakness of decision-making institutions in the field of culture."

Keywords

• application of literature
• culture and folk literature
• grounded theory
• literature and society

Main Subjects

• Rhetoric