A Semiotic Reading of Manouchehr Atashi's Poem

Mansoori Hasanabadi, Mohammad Javad; Algooneh Juneghani, Masood

doi:10.22099/jba.2025.50258.4528

Document Type : Research Paper

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¹ MA Student of of Persian Language and Literature, Humanities faculty, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Department of Persian Language and Literature,Humanities faculty, University of Isfahan ,Isfahan,Iran

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.50258.4528

Abstract

Michael Riffaterre (1924-2006), a French structuralist researcher, has conducted fundamental and significant research in the field of semiotics of poetry. His approach, while maintaining the importance of structure, leans towards hermeneutics. Riffaterre's semiotic reading is based on mimetic and retrospective levels, offering features such as hypogram, model, accumulation, descriptive constellation, and matrix for poetry reading. These elements play a determining role for the reader and elucidate important points regarding the creation of poetry by the poet and its reinterpretation by the reader. Riffaterre divides readers into two groups: ordinary readers and super-readers. Only the super-reader can go beyond the mimetic level, grasp the virtual relationships of the poem's elements, and reach the matrix. Therefore, in this study, Manouchehr Atashi's poem "City of Image" will be examined based on Riffaterre's semiotic model. Considering the often-neglected historical-social considerations in Riffaterre's model, this study will interpret the poem based on its structure, emphasizing the significant influence of these aspects in shaping literary works. It appears that this poem results from the expansion of a single matrix, where the poem's signification depends on it, and the scattered signs in the poem derive their meaning from this matrix.

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Journal of Poetry Studies (boostan Adab)

A Semiotic Reading of Manouchehr Atashi's Poem "City of Image" Based on Riffaterre's Model

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Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 64
August 2025
Pages 85-100

A Semiotic Reading of Manouchehr Atashi's Poem "City of Image" Based on Riffaterre's Model

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Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 64August 2025Pages 85-100

Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 64
August 2025
Pages 85-100