Morphological Analysis of Nizami’s Narrative Poem of Leyli O Majnun Based on Vladimir Propp’s Morphology Model

Through a deep study of the literary texts of recent decades, and considering narratology as the most noteworthy outcome of structuralism, one can notice that the structure and motifs of narrative texts based on the functions and relations of the characters have been focused on. That is why each one of the narratologists has pointed to the recurrent models in literary texts. Russian folklorist, Vladimir Propp, brought about major developments by introducing a comprehensive model for structural analysis of narrative texts. Regarding the vast and wide range of narrative fiction which provides a good ground for discovering the narrative structure and analysis, the researcher has tried to analyze the structure of Nizami’s Leyli O Majnun</em> as a work of lyrical fiction. Then, after an introductory account of formalism, structuralism and morphology, the researcher has embarked on analyzing this story based on Propp’s morphology model in order to find out what techniques Nizami has used to narrate his story.