Arabic Literature

Semiotics of Words Denoting the Concept of Homeland in the Poems of Suleiman al-Isa According to Pierce's View

Rabi Amiri; Tooraj Zeinivand; Jahangir Amiri

Volume 13, Issue 3 , November 2021, , Pages 105-126

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.308779.612263

Abstract

Literary semiotics is a new method of literary criticism that examines the role of linguistic signs in the creation of poetic themes and manifests its internal actions by exploring ... Read More Literary semiotics is a new method of literary criticism that examines the role of linguistic signs in the creation of poetic themes and manifests its internal actions by exploring the secondary layers of the text and represents the main meaning and purpose of the poet. Pierce is one of the most famous semiotic theorists who, by presenting a three-dimensional model for the sign, created a great change in this science and provided the ground for criticizing the semantic structure of literary works. The concept of sign in this model arises from the relationship between its three components, namely representation, interpretation and subject. Signs in Pierce's theory consist of a chain of causes and effects that are governed by a kind of cause and effect relationship. The new poetry is completely different from the old one in terms of structure and content, and instead of explicitly expressing the themes of his poetry, the poet uses virtual language and linguistic symbols and indirectly expresses the purposes of his poetry. Suleiman Al-Issi is a famous Syrian poet and one of the poets of modernity whose most important and frequent subject of his poetry is patriotism due to his committed tendency towards the literature and thoughts of nationalism. Considering that Suleiman Al-Issi also uses covert and indirect language to express his literary messages and uses language signs, the present study based on Pierce's theory tries to analyze the signs related to the concept of homeland and to critique the role of secrets in the construction of signs. The concept of homeland in Al-Issi's poetry is not limited to his country, Syria, but includes the entire Arab world. From the results of the research, it can be pointed out that the signs of patriotism in the poems of Suleiman Al-Issi have been produced in the form of cryptographic structures of the creator of the work, aesthetics, space, time and intertextuality. Through the correct aArrangement of explicit meanings together and within the context of the text, he expresses the implicit meanings of the concept of homeland in imaginative language, thereby guiding the reader's mind from the surface of speech to the deepest layers of the text and by this, he has recited the secondary intentions behind words and the phrases of his poetry. Therefore, in this way, it gives sensory and tangible effects to abstract concepts. Hence, Al-Issi can be considered one of the best poets in the Arab world in using abstract concepts in an eloquent, effective and at the same time believable format that can impress any reader. He develops readers’ minds to feel the poetry more easily and sympathize with it.

The Study of Literary Commitment in Farouq Jowaida’s Poetry

Morteza Ghaemi; Faramarz Mirzaei; Majid Samadi

Volume 6, Issue 2 , July 2015, , Pages 201-222

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2015.54206

Abstract

Literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among Arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, ... Read More

Irony and Sarcasm in the Poetry of Ibrahim Touqan

Sayyed Morteza Hosseini; Sajed Zare

Volume 6, Issue 1 , November 2014, , Pages 89-108

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2014.52025

Abstract

Irony is a tool that implicitly treats social realities by drawing upon wit. Such wit is backed up with silent thought and contemplation that would quietly yet effectively shriek man ... Read More

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Semiotics of Words Denoting the Concept of Homeland in the Poems of Suleiman al-Isa According to Pierce's View

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The Study of Literary Commitment in Farouq Jowaida’s Poetry

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Irony and Sarcasm in the Poetry of Ibrahim Touqan

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