Resistance Literature

Resistance Literature

Cultural semiotics of Salman Harati's poems based on Lutman's symbolic sphere theory

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
2 PHD student of Persian language and literature Guilan University
10.22034/rrl.2025.726558
Abstract
Semiotics is one of the sciences that can be used to understand the meaning of cultural symbols and allusions in poets' poems. The concept of semiotics is the most important concept that Yuri Lutman, a researcher and semiotician, has addressed. In the semiotics, attention is paid to one's culture and another, or culture and non-culture; cultural semiotics is the starting point for the correct interpretation of a literary text. The importance of the role of cultural symbols, It is in expressing the mental content and conveying it correctly to the audience. In this process, elements of culture find centrality and centrality, and other elements are marginalized. Among the poets of Iranian sustainability literature, Salman Herati is a prominent figure. He uses From the cultural signs, he has tried to teach students about sustainable literature. The cultural signs influenced by nature in Herati's works, while preserving and elevating the native culture, removes the symbols of foreign culture from the space of the native culture and tries to expand the sustainable literature by engineering the mind. This research, with a descriptive-analytical approach and quantitative statistics, examines the role of cultural semiotics of sustainable literature words in engineering children's minds with regard to Salman Herati's poems; also, Herati's method in engineering children's minds and the effect it had on their unconscious mind. The result shows this effect according to the association of words of sustainability literature. The analysis of the cultural signs of Herati's poems from the perspective of symbolization, texture and Lutman's sphere of signs theory, shows that Herati, by using the two characteristics of naturalism and the job of a teacher and close relationship with students, with dynamic cultural signs that have the power to influence children's minds, has been able to reduce the psychological damage caused by the war on children's subconscious mind and by erasing bad memories and replacing them with stylized words of sustainability literature, provide mental health and engineering of the minds of its audience; the cultural signs in Salman Herati's poems according to Sepehr's theory of Lutman's signs, are also fruitful It has been influential in the poetry and thought of sustainable literature during the war years.
Keywords

  • Receive Date 27 September 2024
  • Revise Date 04 December 2024
  • Accept Date 27 February 2025
  • Publish Date 23 July 2025