The Wise Man and Collective Memory in Sa’di’s Rose Garden: A Cognitive - Narrative Analysis
The Wise Man and Collective Memory in Sa’di’s Rose Garden: A Cognitive - Narrative Analysis

Summary/Abstract: Analysis of stories in a psychological framework with an emphasis on cognitive concepts and constructs such as schema, memory, problem solving, and wisdom as well as narrative elements such as sequentiality of the events may be regarded as one of the most important contributions to the field of narrative theory and narratology. As an initiatory step toward such an analysis, a story from Sa’di’s Gulistan has been selected and analyzed at five levels of processing. This cognitive- narrative study of Sa’di’s story may be considered as a preliminary effort to move toward a cognitive and narrative analysis of a story in Persian culture and Persian language. It presents an analysis of story as a window to a culture. Furthermore, since this is most likely the first attempt in this direction, it also may have some implications for future studies about Persian stories.

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