The Taxonomy and Rootting of Love Stories in Thousand and a Night Stories, Based on Lucian Goldman's Genetic Structuralism

The diversity of themes that exists in Thousand and a Night stories cannot be seen anywhere else. One of these themes is Love. Since love is a theme whose trace can be found everywhere in this book, its analysis is inevitable. From Love Stories, we mean stories in which love is the main subject from the beginning to the end. In this research, the Thousand and a Night has been analyzed with regard to its theme, and then its love stories are identified. These stories are then criticized from a sociologiacal point of view, using Goldman’s genetic structuralism. A taxonomy of these stories are delivered afterwards. This taxonomy is in fact the typology of "One Thousand and One Night" book. According to Goldmann, the work’s structures have strong associations with social structure. Therefore we should discover their underlying ideologies and their relation with larger ideologies of society and social mind. Therefore it is expected that once this research has come to a conclusion, we can at least identify the form and structure of its love stories, and tell the number of types that represent their social origins and designate the role of cultural and regional differences in the formation of these stories.