The analysis of the nights of Tehran novel based on lyric theory by Jonathan Culler

considered as a new field of study in story criticism that its history goes back to recent decades when it was Eileen Baldeshweiler, who used the topic of lyric story in her essay (1969) for the first time and for some stories that contain the especial elements of lyric novel. After that, some other eminent scholars such as Ralph freeman and Jonathan culler have expanded the horizons of this study and thus today there are some more exact and scientific criteria for the ones who are interested in studying the domain of lyric novel. the present essay is going to study the novel of shabhaye Tehran of Ghazale Alizade on based on jonathan culler theory of lyric story. Cullers theory includes five main emotions with their subdivisions. In the present study, this question was answered: what elements and factors have characterized the shabhaye Tehran novel as a modern lyric story? The results show that shabhaye Tehran can be considered as one of the best examples of lyric novel in Persian literature because the most important features of lyric story raised in Jonathan culler are found in it with high frequency and considerable quality.