Document Type : Original Article
Author
Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
Structuralism is one of the methods of text analysis in the twentieth century that examines the rules and patterns in the text with a generalist approach. Grimas's narratological model is a universal, flexible, and adaptable model to literary and non-literary genres. In such a way that the main structure of each narrative can be analyzed and examined with his narratological theory. In this research, which was conducted fundamentally, based on library studies and using a descriptive-analytical method, the narrative structure of the stories (Gershasps and the Daughter of King Rum in Gershaspnameh and Penelope and Ulysses in Odyssey) as examples of epic poems was studied based on Grimas's action model; the main structure of these narratives was analyzed and examined by changing the situations based on dual oppositions and narrative chains. After analyzing the texts, it was concluded that Grimas's action model is quite useful and applicable in analyzing the narrative of the aforementioned epic poems, and the plot of the stories has a specific narrative structure and coherence and can be examined from two perspectives (dual oppositions and syntactic rules). In terms of action, it includes two separate action models with distinct actors that are less frequently observed in other narratives.
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