Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Raoof Ibrahim Sameen ¹
• Mousa Parnian ²
• Khalil Baygzade ³

¹ phd student in persian literature

² Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature

³ Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature/ Persian Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Abstract

Cultural semiotics is the study of intercultural relations among interactive, conflicting, and confrontational poles, that explains the scope of one's own culture and its codes against the constraints of another culture or non-culture. Lotman's prior understanding of culture is in the form of a collection of semiotic systems with vague boundaries, and he refers to all semiotic phenomena that are specifically organized along a continuum as the semiotic sphere. The border and cultural semiotic space highlight homogeneity and individuality, and the function of this filtering transforms the foreign into the familiar and sometimes the other into the self. This research examines and elucidates the novels 'On the Red Water Roads' and 'Frankenstein in Baghdad' based on Lotman's semiotic sphere theory, focusing on border and center, employing concepts such as interactive, conflicting, and confrontational poles within Lotman's semiotic sphere with a descriptive-analytical approach. The authors elucidate the border and center in the studied works for their own culture and seek to maintain it, although the space of these works has a centeective of the autheir own culture and the other in dealing with another culture, keeping the other outside the boundaries of the components of their own culture.

Keywords

• On the Red Water Roads, Frankenstein in Baghdad, Yuri Lotman, conventional pattern, border and center."

Main Subjects

• الادب المقارن