Authors

• Ali Akbar Sam Khaniani ¹
• Mustafa Malek Paein ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Birjand University

² PHD Student of Persian Language and Literature, Birjand University

Abstract

The Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne has a lot of literary beauties; applying different literary criticisms and various meaningful readings in the context of this story, one can determine the aesthetic factors and their effects on the readers. One the most efficient literary criticism in this regard is the mythical criticism. This study tries to analyze the Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne based on the Theory of Jung regarding Archetypes and Symbols, and its integration with the Northrop Fry Theory about the mitoses forming a literary work. To do this, after explaining the theoretical framework and method of this study, the symbols and archetypes of different parts of this story would be analyzed applying mythical analysis; then their relations with mitoses forming that part would be expressed.
The Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne has a lot of literary beauties; applying different literary criticisms and various meaningful readings in the context of this story, one can determine the aesthetic factors and their effects on the readers. One the most efficient literary criticism in this regard is the mythical criticism. This study tries to analyze the Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne based on the Theory of Jung regarding Archetypes and Symbols, and its integration with the Northrop Fry Theory about the mitoses forming a literary work. To do this, after explaining the theoretical framework and method of this study, the symbols and archetypes of different parts of this story would be analyzed applying mythical analysis; then their relations with mitoses forming that part would be expressed.
The Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne has a lot of literary beauties; applying different literary criticisms and various meaningful readings in the context of this story, one can determine the aesthetic factors and their effects on the readers. One the most efficient literary criticism in this regard is the mythical criticism. This study tries to analyze the Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne based on the Theory of Jung regarding Archetypes and Symbols, and its integration with the Northrop Fry Theory about the mitoses forming a literary work. To do this, after explaining the theoretical framework and method of this study, the symbols and archetypes of different parts of this story would be analyzed applying mythical analysis; then their relations with mitoses forming that part would be expressed.

Keywords

• Myth
• Archetype
• symbol
• mitosis
• Kelile and Demne
• Story