Selecting the Text and Methodology of the Literary Studies

Most of the Persian literary studies investigate one or more text. But in these researches، the problem of selecting the text has usually been neglected. The text، as only a material of the study، and its selecting by author usually is considered without any communication with methodological aspects. However seriously and problematic study in this subject can enhance the research aspects of the investigation. In This article، we are aimed to evaluate the importance of selecting the text as a methodological element instead of the other criteria in the Persian literary researches. It seems that attention to the text as a methodological element is related to researcher’s awareness of the relationship between the selected text and other texts، and their differences and similarities. Indicating the importance of researcher’s information and his assumptions، this view emphasis on the function of the text ant it’s selecting in the results of the study