Allusive Illustrations and Their Uses in the History of Vassāf

جستارهای نوین ادبی

Article 5, Volume 43, Issue 2, May 2010, Pages 129-156   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v43i2.8399

Authors

Zahra Ekhteyari^* ; Alireza Mahmoudi

Abstract

Allusion is one of the styles of covered expression, and is one of the basic elements of illustration in the History of Vassāf. Vāssaf al-Hazrah tries to make the prose closer to the poetic prose and add to its effect by using expression elements and especially illusion. The lack of an edited copy of the History of Vassāf and its obliged and created prose has been the reason that this work has been kept away from the researchers. In this research, allusion and their artistic uses is examined, broken-down and analysed, as one of the elements of imagination. Through the usage of the description and analysis method, firstly the allusive illustrations of the History of Vassāf are examined from the perspective of the main words from the traditional point of view, and then allusion is reviewed as one of the factors of creation of ambiguity in the History of Vassāf. The conclusion of the given research makes it clear that Vassāf’s usage of allusive illustrations is one of his colloquialism methods, which includes greatness of the word, which at the end brings it closer to poetic prose.

Key words: allusion, History of Vassāf, technical prose, ambiguity, innovation.