Novel as a Media: Typology of Influential Novels after 1953 Coup d'état to 1979 Revolution

This a research in communication science and fiction literature interdisciplinary studies. It interprets novel media functions and its influence on novel reader social networks; this study shows that how novel provided opportunity for spending leisure and escape the painful realities of life. The novel as a literary text caries inevitably traces of ideology. It is not only influenced by social situations but also interprets them. To investigate this issue, 11 writers, literary critic and prominent Iranian journalist chose thirteen effective novels through published novels after the coup of 1953. The choose of these novels is due to the profound influence of political climate of this period on literature, these kinds of novels fill critical press vacancies and as a substitute media, have proposed Iranian middle class elites thoughts about law, industry development, religious and cultural reforms. The purpose of this research is not to deny the form importance in novel and to endorse committed literature, rather it matches novel and social media features from two perspectives of social functioning and identity scales. This research using three methods of qualitative content analysis, deep interviews, and a library sources analysis, show that novel from first viewpoint involve six identical criteria communication elements like author, encoder and etc. And also from contend viewpoint, contrapuntal nature, multi-concept, dialogue centrality of the novel caused to its favorable logic to society logic.