Arabic Literature

In Contemporary semiotics, if there are such names as Propp, Grimas, Todorov, Genet, and Barthes in the field of narratological studies, Michael Riffattere should be considered one ... Read More

A Study of Ali Hijazi's Anaqed Al Atash to the Theory of Grimas' Factorial Model

Fatameh Booazar; Hossein Mohtadi; Khadija Abdullah Shehab

Volume 14, Issue 4 , January 2023, , Pages 23-49

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.332902.612468

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Grimas is considered the pioneer of the Paris Semiotic School and one of its most famous theorists who built the most important narrative theory, through which he was able to transcend ... Read More

Comparative Analysis of the Poems "Dead Moments" by Wadī‛ Sa‛ādah and "Say Something, from Love ..." by Hafez Mousavi (Based on Roland Barthes's Semiotics)

Hediyeh Ghasemifard; naser zare

Volume 14, Issue 3 , October 2022, , Pages 1-25

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.324983.612397

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As one of the relatively new branches of human knowledge, semiotics seeks to open new horizons of the text to the audience by relying on the text and deciphering the signs and how they ... Read More

Analysis of the Concept of Death in Bassam Hajar''''s Poetry Based on Peirce Semiotic Model

Parviz Ahmadzadeh Houch; bahman aqazade; Vahid Kheri

Volume 14, Issue 2 , September 2022, , Pages 85-106

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.321797.612376

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Semiotics investigates the relationship between symbols and meanings and their formation. Literary semiotics tries to discover the unknown of the world within the text by analyzing ... Read More Semiotics investigates the relationship between symbols and meanings and their formation. Literary semiotics tries to discover the unknown of the world within the text by analyzing linguistic semiotics and understanding the semantic connections between the words of the poem. Charles Peircerevolutionized the semioticsby his three-dimensional model of symbol structure and provided literary critics with a precise scientific method for examining the semantic structure of poetry. Bassam Hajar is one of the poets of modern thought that death is one of the main concepts and themes of his poetry and most of his poems are dedicated to death and death thinking. Based on Peirce''s theory, this article tries to examine the process of making poetic symbols related to the concept of death in Bassam Hajar''s poem and recounts the unrevealed messages in the deep levels of his poems. The results showed that he has used aesthetic, author, temporal, spatial and collocations codes to produce poetic symbols related to the concept of death.The use of explicit meanings of his poems words has helped the reader to choose carefully the implicit meaning appropriate to the concept of death from countless implicit meanings, revealing the poet''s main purpose, ideology and contradictory feelings about death, which are incomprehensible in the first reading and uncovering the secondary layers of the text. Semiotics investigates the relationship between symbols and meanings and their formation. Literary semiotics tries to discover the unknown of the world within the text by analyzing linguistic semiotics and understanding the semantic connections between the words of the poem. Charles Peircerevolutionized the semioticsby his three-dimensional model of symbol structure and provided literary critics with a precise scientific method for examining the semantic structure of poetry. Bassam Hajar is one of the poets of modern thought that death is one of the main concepts and themes of his poetry and most of his poems are dedicated to death and death thinking. Based on Peirce''s theory, this article tries to examine the process of making poetic symbols related to the concept of death in Bassam Hajar''s poem and recounts the unrevealed messages in the deep levels of his poems. The results showed that he has used aesthetic, author, temporal, spatial and collocations codes to produce poetic symbols related to the concept of death.The use of explicit meanings of his poems words has helped the reader to choose carefully the implicit meaning appropriate to the concept of death from countless implicit meanings, revealing the poet''s main purpose, ideology and contradictory feelings about death, which are incomprehensible in the first reading and uncovering the secondary layers of the text.

The Semiotics of “Title” in Mohammad Helmi al-Risheh's Poetry; Cases Studies: “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil”

Nahid Phishgam; Yahya Maroof; Majid Mohammadi

Volume 13, Issue 4 , March 2022, , Pages 17-37

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.320023.612368

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Literary semiotics, as a modern science at the present time, seeks to decode and discover the signs of the text by using the syntagmatic relations between words and the special arrangement ... Read More Literary semiotics, as a modern science at the present time, seeks to decode and discover the signs of the text by using the syntagmatic relations between words and the special arrangement of words. “Title” of text is one of the important codes of semiotics and is the showcase of text which can have an important relationship with the main text and guides the reader to discover the author's mental concepts; hence it can be said that “title” plays an important role in decoding a text. Mohammad Helmi Al-Risheh (1985) is one of the poets who often uses symbols and signs to convey his poetic mission to the audience.He considers “title” as a key to entering the text, and has paid special attention to it. “Title” at the beginning of many of his odes gives a fillip to the mind of audience. in this paper, “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil” will be discussed as the cases studies.Since the titles of the three poems are based on the invoking of Quranic stories, the present study aims to investigate the title of these odes from semiotic perspective and analyze their relationship with the main text based on the Quranic intertextuality. This paper also recounts the poet's purpose for invoking the Quranic stories and examines the functions of the title of the text during its reading and explores the titles at the structural and significational level and analyzes its functions.The findings of this research indicate that the titles of the poems have been taken from Quranic stories and is in line with the main text, which the poet has used to induce his mental schemata. Also, titles are sometimes directly related to the text; that is, in terms of meaning and sound, they have been taken from the text and sometimes their function is indirect. So the reader to discover this relationship needs more effort. Also, the mentioned titles are signifiers with their own signified and have descriptive and attractive functions.

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

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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 Application of Michael Rifatter’s Semiotic Theory in the Analysis of the Poem “Khoz Vardat al-Salje Khoz al-Kairouaniat” by Saadi Yousef

Fatemeh Tanha; Mahin Hajizadeh; Abolhasan Amin Moqaddasi; Abdolahad Gheibi

Volume 13, Issue 1 , May 2021, , Pages 1-22

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2020.301462.612200

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Michael Rifatter’s semiotics is one of the approaches of literary criticism of the contemporary era. It offers a coherent framework for critique and analysis of poetry. The bases ... Read More

“Semiotics in Ode “Job’s book” by Badr Shakir Al- Siab”

Ebrahim Anari Bozchelooei; Samira Farahani

Volume 3, Issue 3 , February 2012, , Pages 157-180

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Viability of verse is interrelated to its multiple layer nature and legibility. Being affected by western poetry and criticism in the middle of 20th century, this trend entered Arabic ... Read More

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Semiotic Analysis of Qasidtol Hozn By Salah Abdel- Saboor According to Michael Riffaterre Theory

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A Study of Ali Hijazi's Anaqed Al Atash to the Theory of Grimas' Factorial Model

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Comparative Analysis of the Poems "Dead Moments" by Wadī‛ Sa‛ādah and "Say Something, from Love ..." by Hafez Mousavi (Based on Roland Barthes's Semiotics)

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Analysis of the Concept of Death in Bassam Hajar''''s Poetry Based on Peirce Semiotic Model

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The Semiotics of “Title” in Mohammad Helmi al-Risheh's Poetry; Cases Studies: “La To'teni Tafahata Okhra” , “Resalatan ela Kalimollah” and “Ababil”

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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 Application of Michael Rifatter’s Semiotic Theory in the Analysis of the Poem “Khoz Vardat al-Salje Khoz al-Kairouaniat” by Saadi Yousef

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“Semiotics in Ode “Job’s book” by Badr Shakir Al- Siab”

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