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Reason, A Barrier or A Bridge… M. Dehghani Firouzabadi and M. Islami / (105
crucial relationship between language and literature, and/or
mystical experience and the it means the knowledge and
construction of hermeneutical application of other disciplines
forms of writing. in and for the study of literature
and second, Comparative Literature
Theoretical Framework and has an ideology of inclusion of
Review of Related Literature the Other, say, a marginal
In this study, the theory of literature. (Ibid: 13)
comparative literature according Inclusion can be inferred as
to Steven Totosy de Zepetnek a theoretical activity to enable
(1998) will be employed in two literary themes or literary
order to analyze and compare figures to have more affinities
concepts of reason in the and be closer to each based on
poetry of Rumi and Blake. the parity existing between
This theory contains a practical them. Thus, thematic inclusion
model which is useful in must be structured to meet
comparing literary themes. The particular objectives while the
model relates to Totosy de two comparable sides keep
Zepetnek’s approach of inclusion. their individual characteristics.
Totosy de Zepetnek contends In addition to the theory of
that comparative literature involves inclusion, this study is constructed
“theoretical, methodological as on Aldous Huxley’s Perennial
well as ideological and political philosophy. Accordingly, the
approach of inclusion”. foreground theory in the
(Totosy de Zepetnek, 1998: 17) present article is Huxley’s
To him First, Comparative Perennial philosophy.
Literature means the knowledge
of more than one national
