A glance at cultural semiotics of determinism and free will in the fifth chapter of Sa’adi’s Bustan
Abstract
The method of reading the literary texts, including poetry, has been the focus of attentions since long ago and there are various critical approaches in regard of the issue one of which is cultural semiotics. The question is how cultural semiotics can lead to a better reading of poetry? The article assumes that it is through adopting a novel approach that patterns can be attained guiding the readers to the symbolic system of the poems recited by Sa’adi. The determinism and free will symbolic system imbedded inside a given semiosphere leads to the discovery of the cultural signs and poet’s beliefs and results in the corroboration of production and reproduction of the literary works enables the researchers of poetry to interpret and analyze the signs and figure out new results.
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