A Comparative Study of Golshiri's The Vampire and Mehr with a Transmedial Approach

Gérard Genette theorizes that different texts derive from earlier works, categorizing relationships between texts into five types of transtextuality: intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, hypertextuality, and architextuality. Since comparative literature is fundamentally concerned with literary influence and intertextual relationships, Genette's theory of transtextuality connects directly to this field. The passage then begins to discuss vampires as European legends that have attracted many young readers, and notes that Golshiri was the first to introduce them into Persian narrative, but the source text cuts off before completing this thought.