Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 4، July 2025 ، issue Number 110

Layered Stylistic Analysis in the Play "Tomar Sheikh Sharzin" (Dramatic-Literary Work by Bahram Bayzai)

Yadollah Taleshi (Author in Charge), Zohreh Fadaei Vashki , Solmaz Razzaqzadeh

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Layered stylistics is a combination of structuralist and formative stylistics in which a work is examined in five layers: phonetic, lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and semantic, which, in addition to linguistic studies, also pays attention to the aesthetic aspects and intellectual and semantic dimensions of the work.

METHODOLOGY: This research, in accordance with layered stylistics, seeks to answer the question of how, by applying layered stylistic techniques in a dramatic-literary work, one can access the deep layers of semantics and understand the author"s ideology.

For this reason, we selected the play Sheikh Sherzin"s Scroll by Bahram Bayzai and examined and analyzed it using a descriptive-analytical method and using library resources based on layered stylistics.

FINDINGS: The reason for choosing this topic is that, contrary to the view that the field of studying the stylistics of poetry is prose, we moved it to prose. Second, we studied it in a dramatic-literary work. Third, contrary to traditional stylistics, by choosing a dramatic work, we wanted to prove how, by implementing the titles of the five layers, we can reach the intellectual, semantic, and aesthetic dimensions of a work.

CONCLUSION: The conclusion of the text indicates that Sheikh Sherzin Baydaei"s scroll is the best prose example in terms of studying the layered stylistics, and by using the titles related to layered stylistics, we can reach the intellectual and semantic dimensions of the work that lie in the underlying layers and understand the ideology of the work.

Keyword
Layered stylistics , Sheikh Sherzin's scroll , five layers , play.

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