Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
2 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
Abstract
Studying literary and cultural interactions between nations is one of the scientific ways of examining the extent and the ways of their intertextual presence of linguistic, cultural, and intellectual elements in each other's literary texts. The intertextual study of ancient Greek and Iranian literary texts can show the extent and the ways of their literary, intellectual, and cultural exchange. One of the most important manifestations of cultural interactions between Iran and Greece is the manifestation of ancient Greek scholars' educational, moral, and social ideas in Qaboosnameh. This paper has analyzed intertextual interactions of Qaboosnameh based on the theory of Gerard Genette using a descriptive-comparative method and concluded that the multitude of ethical and social issues obtained from the ancient Greek scholars in Qaboosnameh illustrates the importance of ethics in the individual and social well-being of the ancient Greek and the attention of Iranian men of letters to this land as one of the important origins of world democracy. Onsorolma? Ali’s prominent attention to Plato's wisdom stems from his utopian thinking in Qaboosnameh, influenced by the teachings of ancient Greece and the knowledge of various civilizations of mankind. The high frequency of implicit intertextuality especially literary translation and allusion is in accordance with the high literary quality of Qaboosnameh and the frequency of explicit intertextuality especially quotations and proverbs prove Onsorma? Ali’s honesty, high wisdom, strong memory, and explicit reference to scholars of Greece persuade the readers.
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