Transition from active discourse to sensory-perceptual discourse in "Golnar and the Mirror" by Rahnavard Zariab

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts at Penn State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Abstract

The present study, making use of the qualitative analysis based on complete induction, criticizes and analyzes the problem of transition from action and program-oriented discourse to sensory-perceptual and non-program-oriented discourse in "Golnar and the Mirror" by Rahnavard Zaryab. It has been hypothesized that novels, Prior to 2000s in Afghanistan, were based on a pragmatic discourse system, possessed a prescriptive and interactive narrative, contained categorical value systems, and carried an objective relationship between language levels. However, from the beginning of the decade afterwards, this situation has undergone a transformation that has replaced the previous systems, as the result. For instance; the Phenomenological and sensory-perceptual discourse system, adapted and intertwined narratives, value modal and adaptive system, and the phenomenological and physical relationship. Golnar and the Mirror, published in the early 2000s, is an example of this case. This novel, carrying three great signs-meaning (unity of subject-object, romantic discourse and imaginary identity of subject-object), correctly proves the assumption of the authors in this respect. This novel has been analyzed based on the theory of phenomenal sign-semantics and, as a result, we have found that in this novel, like novels before this decade, meaning is not the result of opposition and there is no value object outside the subject to conquer. Rather, the process of producing meaning in it has been formed through state and sensory-perceptual discourse system, comparative and intertwined narrative, and the existence of the value modal system. In such a system, meaning is obtained randomly and concurrently, without a predetermined plan, and the human senses of the subject play a prominent role in its production.

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