Retrieving codes of identity and association in Farhad Abbas Marouhi's novel The Body with Pierre Giroud's semiotics approach

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1 PhD student of Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan branch

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran

3 Persian language and literature Islamic Azad University Zanjan branch

4 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran

Abstract

Pekar Farhad's novel is a social novel that It has a wide possibility to find meaning through social signs. This research, using a descriptive and analytical method and using library sources, relying on the theory of Piper-Giro and with a social semiotics approach, tries to show the type and manner of the social signs in the space of Farhad's novel. Social novel, analyze and review. The results of the research show that Maarouhi is a writer in this novel who, by using many signs, using the fluid flow of the mind, as well as the duality and two-facetness of the characters, leads to the failure and degeneration of his life. and has expressed this as a result of the problems and pressure caused by the political, economic and social conditions of the society during different periods. The author has tried to use the signs of identity in line with characterizing functions and through them to form two mutual intellectual groups, one is normative and the other is non-normative and wants freedom of action and breaking traditions. This attitude has established a deep connection with the ideology ruling the society and somehow refers to the atmosphere of the patriarchal society. Also, by using the signs and codes of social etiquette and politeness, the crisis and loss of identity and the duality of women's personality during different periods have been pointed out.

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Research in Narrative Literature

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Available Online from 15 March 2025

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