Narrative Configuration, Focalization, and Semantic-Semiotic of the Story of Midday Moon

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D., Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Persian, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran

Abstract

The short story Midday Moon (Mah-e-Nimrooz) is from the collection of stories with the same name written by Shahriar Mandanipour. In this article, we explain and analyze the narrative configuration, focalization, and semiotics of this story to show how the plot of the story is formed and what meaning it conveys. Using Gennet's focalization approach, we have discussed the focalizer and the focalized, and we have shown the role of images as focalizers or focalized. And we have analyzed the semantic systems formed in the story with the semiotic-semantic approach of Grems.The result of the research shows that this story takes place in the dream of an old man who is dying, while three strange characters in his dream watch and interpret paintings of death. The objects of the images become active and create a new form of existence for them, and the reflection discourse of the story is formed. They speak, express their feelings and pain. The activation of the paintings and the use of this narrative plot are for expressing the unsaid things that cannot be seen in the image. Images can only show the present time of the event, but by becoming active, they also express some aspects of the past and future.

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Linguistic Studies: Theory and Practice
Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2024
March 2024
Pages 49-78

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  • Receive Date: 27 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 05 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 09 February 2024

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