Comic is one of the most important methods of expressing concepts in the colloquial literature. Since the comic follows very serious purposes in valuing the formal art and covering the laugh with having a widespread area in the social issues, it is serious and thinkable in the popular culture. Colloquial literature of South (provinces in Iran) is an invaluable part of popular culture that is the reflection of lifestyle, ideas, beliefs and ethics of this area. This research attempts to investigate the sociological backgrounds of comic and the techniques of its creation in the colloquial poems of south. In so doing, the intended poetic evidences were extracted from the written sources. After classifying them into the spiritual and materialistic elements and the social system, some sample were selected to avoid verbosity. The intended social comic backgrounds in the colloquial poems of south include the complaint and protest, oppression, social system, living conditions and marriage. Comic in the colloquial poems of south is created with exaggeration techniques, interview, comparison, metaphor of animals, underestimating, behavioral comic and blathering. Comic in the colloquial poems of south is manifested in the forms of situational comic, ethical comic and speech comic.
Article Type:
Research Paper |
Subject:
Popular literature Received: 2017/06/27 | Accepted: 2018/05/20 | Published: 2018/05/20