نقد و تحليل شيوۀ بازنويسي داستان‌هاي زندگاني ائمه(ع) براي كودكان و نوجوانان با تمركز بر مجموعۀ «دوازده قصه از زندگاني چهارده معصوم(ع)» اثر مسلم ناصري

Stories are human beings’ shared language for conveying points and meanings and transmitting moral and spiritual values among generations. Religion is so central to Iranian stories and such stories involve important educational aims. Religious cultivation is the ultimate purpose of every training effort; hence the retainment of transcendental theorems plays a key role in the socialization of teenagers. The narratives of prophets and Imams as a store of concepts, knowledge, and didactic stories are the supreme authentic sources for the authors of storybooks, as they indirectly introduce models and lifestyles that shape children’s religious personalities. Needless to say, for these narratives to become stories they need to be rewritten in fictional ways. Rewriting is giving new, artistic structures to archaic literature while preserving their theme and content for the new generations to enjoy their moral and cognitive value with the least manipulation of their structure and theme. There are simple, semi-creative, and creative rewriting types. In simple rewriting, the author has a command of creative writing, literary knowledge, writing skills, and grammar in re-writing the ancient material in a contemporary language without adding creativity or artistic flavor to it. In creative rewriting, the author has all these commands in addition to a plethora of artistic creativity which is applied to the story through certain structural elements and inventions for enhancement of the artistic nature of the text and giving it a new life. Recording the historical-gallantry biographies and reflecting on the lives of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the Shiite Imams (pbut) has always been revered among Muslims, a fact that has given a special place to the literary rewriting of the sacred people’s lives. This research eva‎luates the rewriting methods used by Moslem Naseri in the “12 Stories of the 14 Immaculate (pbut)” in order to reveal his achievements in developing rewriting principles. Also, the criticism of fictional elements and content, the compatibility of stories with authentic sources, the naming strategies in each story, and how they influence the minds of children towards the main character, are among the purposes of this study.

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