“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

The interaction of codes and the plurality of meanings in "The King's Fall in Love with the Concubine"

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Dar Al-Hikmah Institute of Higher Education, Qom, Iran
Abstract
The aim of the present article is that the stories of the spiritual Masnavi, with their signifier-oriented structure and underlying layers, implicit meanings and secondary purposes, are a written text. The textuality of these stories opens up numerous entrances to meaning for the reader. These meanings, whose existential aspect is inevitably related to the relative relationship between the author, the reader and the codes, They guarantee the written nature of the narrative language and free themselves from simplicity, solidity, isolation, and unity. Roland Barthes' theory of five codes is one of the content-oriented ways of studying the text. This article intends to examine it from the perspective of one of the seven propositions considered by this "artistic theorist", namely the plurality of meaning, using a descriptive-analytical method and citing library studies. And while applying her approaches to an example of the stories of the spiritual Masnavi, she will show that literature, as the most influential and important manifestation of the language system, always has room for reading, dynamism, and plurality of meanings, and the passion for receiving in it is never satisfied. The results of the research, in addition to confirming Barthes's view that there is no rule for a literary text and that each reader's reading is based on the codes and codes of poetic language.
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