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A Transdiscursive Analysis of Nima Yushij's Poetry in Relation to Drama; A Semiotic Reading of The Sarivilli House and Maneli
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This study analyses the intratextual mechanisms governing the transition of Nima Yooshij’s poetic discourse into the realm of drama, focusing specifically on the narrative poems The Sarivilli House and Maneli. The central problem involves elucidating how the logic of drama—comprising elements such as action, conflict, dialogue, and crisis—is generated within poems that lack explicit theatrical intent and are composed as narrative verse. The core enquiry seeks to identify the semiotic, discourse-forming elements and patterns operative within these works, and to examine how they are configured so as to effect a metadiscursive reconfiguration, namely an interdiscursive transfer from poetry to drama. The study adopts a qualitative, analytical–interpretive methodology grounded in the framework of discursive semiotics (the Paris School), and mobilises key concepts including actantial systems; actional, passional, and thymic configurations of meaning; the regimes of meaning and interaction (programming, manipulation, adjustment, and event/accident); axiological oppositions; and the operations of disjunction and conjunction.
The findings demonstrate that The Sarivilli House, through a confrontational and persuasive discourse between the subject and the ‘Other’ (the Devil) and via a decisive act of disengagement, establishes a structure equivalent to a high-tension one-act drama adhering to classical unities. In contrast, Maneli, by relying on an accidental discourse and situating the subject within a passional and thymic context, culminates in an existential choice that mirrors the model of the inner-journey or existentialist play. This study concludes that Nima’s poetry, as a fluid transdiscourse, possesses an inherent capacity for transformation into the logic of drama due to its intense semantic oppositions and its versatile discursive patterns. This reading offers an interdisciplinary perspective on contemporary Persian poetry and establishes a new horizon for examining its profound nexus with the performing arts. |
Article number: 4 |
| Keywords: Discursive Semiotics, Transdiscourse, Nima Yushij, Drama, The Sarivilli House, Maneli. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2026/06/17 | Accepted: 2025/10/2
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