The Effect of Intertextual Relationships of the Long Story of 'Man and Snake' on Attracting Audience Participation in Reading (Considering the Role of Female Character in Intertextual Reading)

The long story of The Snake and The Man (1976-1978) is a work by Simin Daneshvar that is derived from religious narratives, sacred texts, and mythical narratives. Laurent Genie's theoretical definition of the concept of intertextuality in the article “Strategy of Forms” serves as the theoretical foundation for this paper’s examination of the intertextual contribution of the narrations mentioned in the construction and payment of that literary work. In this article, Genie proposes that the intertextuality should be referenced when elements beyond the lexical unit of the prototext can be retrieved in the new text, a distinction between his conception of intertextuality, known as soft intertextuality, and Julia Kristeva’s intertextuality, known as hard intertextuality. In other words, the relationship between the texts is not limited to lexical and formal relationships; the intertextual relationship of two texts is not determined by the vague and mysterious sum of the effects of one on the other, but rather by the degree of interconnection between the two texts and how one influences the other. This underscores the two types of intertextuality: strong and weak. In his opinion, “weak intertextuality” is established when two texts communicate in at least two formal and thematic aspects, and “strong intertextuality” is established when texts cease to communicate on one of these two levels. The present study isqualitative in nature.