Reasons for the gap between community& academic literature in Iran

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Persian literature, , has entered the modern world by going through difficult historical turns. This literature transferred only a small part of its assets, directly and indirectly (translation into Arabic), to its new era. In the second stage, period after Islam until the beginning of the modern era, the institutions of monarchy, ministry, and Sufism grew. Finally, as a result of the great changes that occurred in Europe after the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, Persian literature took its third step and entered a new world, and its writers left the centers of political and religious power. In the new situation, the role, mission, and logic of creating and presenting literature completely changed. With Iran's gradual entry into the modern era a new institution of "university" was created in Iranian literature, and for the first time, two separate institutions were engaged in the creation, evaluation, and analysis of literature. The basic issue of the article is to identify the reasons for the distance between community and academic literature.Academic literature turns away from contemporary art to focus on re-examining, reviving and analyzing the literature of the past; in contrast, the literature of society looks toward the present and the future. Academic literature is inherently "intra-cultural" in nature, whereas the literature of the broader society looks beyond Iran to the "outside world." Their respective relationships with "political power" set them on divergent paths: academic literature adopts a historical-analytical and conservative perspective, while societal literature embraces a creative, dynamic, and interpretive approach
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