Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department 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

10.22099/jba.2025.50258.4528

Abstract

Riffaterre (1924-2006), a French structuralist researcher, has recorded fundamental and significant research in the field of poetry semiotics, whose approach, while maintaining the position of structure, has become hermeneutic. Riffaterre's semiotic reading is based on the metaphorical and retrospective level, which considers a determining role for the poetry reader and clarifies important points in the direction of poetry creation by the poet and its reinterpretation by the reader. Therefore, in this study, the poem "City of Image" by Manuchehr Atashi is examined based on the Riffaterre cognitive sign pattern, and then the interpretation of the poem is discussed based on the structure of this work. It seems that this poem is the result of expanding a unit matrix that the significance of the poem depends on it. The matrix in the poem "Shahr E Tasvir" indicates "hopelessness and indifference towards all elements, beauties, and questions. This matrix has been expanded and extended through facilities such as accumulation, descriptive system, and textual space. Reading poetry in this study passes from the mimetic level to the signifying level. Subsequently, considering the lack of attention of the Riffaterre method to formal criticism, the interpretation of poetry is discussed in terms of the influence of the world's form on the form of the work through the facilities arising from the construction of poetry, which ultimately shows the result of structural criticism of the poem "Shahr E Tasvir" and the result of its formal criticism is consistent and coordinated with historical-social considerations.

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