The Metamorphosis of Divine Power Discourse in Persian Literature from Avesta to Mystical Texts
Subject Areas : Research in Iranian classical literature
هادی
قلیزاده
1
فیروز
فاضلی
2
محمدکاظم
یوسفپور
3
Keywords: Farrah-e Izadi Discourse Approaches Metamorphosis Avesta Shahnameh,
Abstract :
The analysis of the discourse formation of Farrah-e Izadi (divine glory) in texts belonging to different periods, with a special focus on Avesta and Shahnameh, Shows that formation of this discourse has undergone various metamorphoses. From among the vast meanings and propositions in these two works, the gift of the divine glory among Iranian kings, being divine mediators, and having a divine right to govern the people have been articulated and foregrounded as special signifiers in an interrelated and interconnected network. Other meanings of the divine glory discourse have been kept on the periphery to harmonize other properties around this central point and to reduce or block their meanings. This study shows that divine glory discourse has been formed and fixed as an obvious truth, using language strategies such as repetition of the compatible propositions, otherness, finality of its own discourse, reductionism, elimination of the rival discourse, and marginalization of lots of properties.