The application of Riffaterre's semiotic model in the reading of poetry

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One of researchers in the semiotics of poetry is ‎Riffaterre. Developing his structuralist ideas, Riffaterre devoted his later career to the reception theory and is known as a ‎hermeneutic structuralist. Using Riffaterre's model in reading poetry, ‎illuminates important notes about the creation of poetic texts as well as its recreation by the ‎reader. Hence, this article is based on a reading of poem by Shamloo. Analysis of ‎this poem indicates that it is a result of an expansion of a matrix and its ‎significance is consequently dependent on this matrix. This matrix, which signifies the ‎transference of human being from this world to the other world, is firstly divided into three ‎distinct topics, i.e. transference, this world, and the other world. Each topic is then expanded ‎through such techniques as accumulation, descriptive systems, and textual space. This ‎research, also, reveals that poetry, in the process of reading, transcends from a mimetic level ‎to a semiotic level where the significance of the poem could be ‎understood. ‎

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 22, Issue 1
August 2017
Pages 33-58

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