The role of cultural structures in the development of literary works

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1 Department of Persian, Faculty of Languages, University of Sulaymaniyah, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

2 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

3 Center for research, education and counseling. Charmo University. Charmo city. Sulaymaniyah province. Iraq

Abstract

Eastern nations have encapsulated all their thoughts, ideas, and achievements in poetry and have paid less attention to prose or its literary crystallization in the form of stories. Our primary assumption is that the cultural structure of individualism and lack of collective participation is the main reason for this approach. Storytelling requires cultural backgrounds of collaboration, but poetry aligns with individualism. In ancient literary tradition, there were stories, but these stories were also based on individualism and were written emphasizing the importance of the individual, not differing in this respect from the poetry of those times. The result of the research also confirms this hypothesis. In ancient oral and written stories, whether prose or verse, a single pattern has been used; the pattern of familiarization or initiation. The repetition of the familiarization structure in ancient stories indicates that our old tales, and consequently our general culture, have always faced a predetermined beginning and end; therefore, no change occurs in the overall narrative and fate of characters. What exists is a repetition of previous models. However, a novel responds to social, cultural, and historical human needs.

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