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

Study and Analysis of the Lexical and Rhetorical Structure of the Mathnawi of the Eskandari Kheradnameh by Nour al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami Based on the Layered Stylistic Model

Farzaneh Foroozani (Author in Charge)

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: One of the methods of contemporary stylistics is layered stylistics, which examines and analyzes various works in an intratextual manner and based on the creative layers that include lexical, phonetic, syntactic, rhetorical, and ideological layers. By using layered stylistics, one can achieve the characteristics of individual style, thoughts, and ideology present in the text. Meanwhile, Nooruddin Abdurrahman Jami is one of the famous poets and mystics of the 9th century AH, whose Masnavi Khradnameh of Alexandria is one of the seven Masnavis from his Haft Peykar poetry system, which expresses his thoughts, ideology, and intellectual approach.

METHODOLOGY: This study, using a descriptive-analytical and library method, examines the stylistic features with a layered approach to analyze the lexical and rhetorical layers in this Masnavi, and also examines the relationship between these two layers and the ideological layer of the text.

FINDINGS: The research findings indicate that in the lexical layer, the high frequency of abstract and mental words with structural codes and marked words is more evident than unmarked words, and the poet has also differentiated his work space by using new combinations for some concepts. In the rhetorical layer, the techniques of repetition, pun, simile, allusion, metaphor, identification, and allegory are most evident.

CONCLUSION: The words used in this text and all rhetorical features, including verbal and spiritual devices, such as repetition, pun, simile, metaphor, and allusion, are meaningfully nurturing Jami"s ideology and intellectual, ideological, social, and political policies, and a small part of these words and imagery serve the poetics of the text.

Keyword
Jami , Eskandari Kheradnameh , layered stylistics , lexical layer , rhetorical layer , ideology.

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