My Study And Teaching Fields

My Study  And Teaching Fields In University:

 1 Literary Teories

 2  Persian And World Literature

 3 Presence Of Philosophy In Persian Literature History

 4 literary Criticism

 5 Mysticism And Religions

 6 Pilosophy

 7 The Conference Of The Birds Of Attar And Rumi's Books

8 Symbology

METANOIA

I have written in my book "From barrior to flight" concerning the concept of METANOIA in the conference of the birds of Attar

 

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حجم: 18.3 مگابایت
 

 

Memorial Day of Attar and his The conference of the birds

 25th Farvardin

Memorial day of Attar Iranian muslim mystic poet and his literary masterpiece" the conference of the birds"

 

Overcoming giant,dragon and monster in literature and art

 

Meanings of Overcoming giant and dragon and monstor  in literature and art

By:Dr VidaAhmadi(Dana Kamran)

In many literary and artistic works there is a hero who encounters with a giant or dragon or monster and she or he must fight with them and conquer the whole of them to achieve her or his goals.

These giant and monster and dragon are symbols in literature and art.In this short article,I indicate 2 general symbolic meanings of these groups of symbols and then I explain them briefly .These two main groups are as follow

The basic concepts

secondary meanings

In basic meanings there is a monster or dragon and hero destroys it.

But in secondary meanings  hero faces with a person or thing that has no dragon's or monstor's appearance  but indeed the inner of that enemy is like a devil dragon or monster. Therefor dragon and monstor in these cases are

A) moral vices

B) fears

C) Anxiety

D)wrong thought or belief

I want to clarify it with examples.In so many fairy tales or other kind of literary or artistic works an evil human or a fals belief or wrong thought can be the same dragon or giant that must be defeated.In the conference of the birds written by attar (Iranian mystic poet) limited attitudes of birds toward themselves and life is their monster or dragon or mephisto in faust written by goethe or stepmother and stepsisters in cinderella are other symbols for this meaning.So the shape of this enemy is not important but what is notable is the form of facing with it .this is the case

Basically in all these meanings hero conquers and dragon and monster defeated and destroyed

Also it can be another symbolic meaning for alchemy. hero kills dragon or giant and by this victory  her or his dark nigredo finished and her or his Albedo and Rubedo or self developing and actulizing happen.this is the real meaning of gold in alchemy