Hassan Zolfaghari; Bahador Bagheri
Volume 16, Issue 30 , December 2015, , Pages 7-39
Abstract
Legend is a tale with an imaginary event of the life of the human, animals, birds, illusory creatures like demon, giants, fairy and dragon which accompanies by mysteries and sometimes the ethical and deductive aims and mostly is being written for reader’s entertainment and recreation. The differentiation ...
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Legend is a tale with an imaginary event of the life of the human, animals, birds, illusory creatures like demon, giants, fairy and dragon which accompanies by mysteries and sometimes the ethical and deductive aims and mostly is being written for reader’s entertainment and recreation. The differentiation of the legends is powerful imagination and being exaggerated. There are several kinds of legends like allegorical, fairy, romantic and heroic ones. In this paper while defining the heroic legends, we become acquainted with the characteristics of this genre like marvel, weak plot, absolutism, mainstreaming, stagnation of hypothetical time and place, homology of characters, Surprising, independence of events and obsolescence. Final section speaks about the most important themes of these kinds of tales. The method of this paper is reading the 23 written legends and using them as examples and the aim of paper is showing the detailed characteristic of heroic legends to compare them with other kinds of legends.
