Comparing Parvin Dowlatabadi’s Children’s and Adults’ Poetry Based on the Idea of “the Implied Reader”

Aghababaii Khuzani, Zahra; Masjedi, Hosein; Abedi Dolat Abadi, Samane

doi:10.22099/jcls.2024.40536.2012

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Prof in Persian Language and literature of payam noor university , Tehran , Iran

² Director of Department of Literature payameNoor of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

³ MA Student in Persian Language and literature of, payame noor university Tehran Iran

https://doi.org/10.22099/jcls.2024.40536.2012

Abstract

Parvin Dowlatabadi has written remarkable poems both for children and for adults. She is one of the few poets whose poems have had a permanent place in textbooks in the recent 60 years. Perhaps no other poet has been present in children’s literature and in textbooks. In this study, we have first introduced the different dimensions of the poet’s personality using a library and field research, including consulting her manuscripts and conducting interviews with the poet’s family members. This section, therefore, contains new insights into the poet’s personality. Afterwards, we have investigated the reasons behind the popularity of her children’s poems in comparison with her adults’ poems by the use of the reader-response approach of Aidan Chambers and discussed the differences between her children’s and adults’ poetry. The analysis of her children’s poems based on the four components of this theory (style, point of view, advocacy, and narrative gaps) reveals that she has engaged in writing poetry for children purposefully as the presence of all the four elements in her poetry can be considered as an indication of her attention to the implied reader of the texts.

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Main Subjects

children's Literature Studies

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Comparing Parvin Dowlatabadi’s Children’s and Adults’ Poetry Based on the Idea of “the Implied Reader”

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