“Non-creative Repetitons” in Simin Daneshvar’s Stories Analyzed through Genette’s Hypertextuality

“Non-creative Repetitons” in Simin Daneshvar’s Stories

Analyzed through Genette’s Hypertextuality

This research deals with five stories written by Simin Daneshvar, and it tries to investigate various types of hypertexutality.Through this it becomes clear how texts influence each other. The applied framework of the study is Genette’s definition of hypertexuality.

The investigated various types of hypertextuality in these five books include parody, adaptation, travesty, restatement and recreation; of these types , we have found, the rarest is travesty and the most common one is restatement. This research has found out that in the process of her writing Daneshvar parodies and repeats her own other books. This repetition reveals itself in the subject matter, the situation and the characters. Among the repetitions, characters are the most repeated ones.

This is a descriptive, analytical library -based research and the data are presented through tables.

Key words:

Non- Creative Repetitions , story, Daneshvar, hypertextuality, Genette