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Mousavi Lar A, Zehtab F. Semiotic Criticism of Bahram-e-Gour dar Gonbad-e Sepid Miniature on the basis of Pictorial Codes of Umberto Eco. mth 2014; 4 (8) : 4
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1- Associate Professor, Department of Art Research, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. , a.mousavilar@alzahra.ac.ir
2- MA, Department of Art Research, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
2- MA, Department of Art Research, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
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Since early twentieth century, semiotics, as an approach for text criticism, has prepared the ground for investigating the procedure of producing and perceiving meaning. Code is among the basic concepts of semiotics. The addressee’s knowledge of the codes of a sign system makes it possible to understand its meaning. The 10-item classification of pictorial codes made by Umberto Eco is one of the most effective approaches for making an analysis of a pictorial text and different aspects of a picture even in relation to texts associated with other sign systems. Iranian miniature is mostly of illustrative use in relation to Persian literature. For instance, Nezami Ganjavi’s Haft Peykar has been illustrated a lot due to its narrative quality and romantic subject. In this paper, the research methodology is descriptive-analytical and the resources have been collected via library. The miniature of “Bahram-e-Gour dar Gonbad-e Sepid” extracted from the Khamseh version of Metropolitan Museum has been the subject of study using Eco’s model for classifying the codes. The questions of this study are as following: - To what extent has this miniature been successful in communicating the content of the literary text through a picture? - How does this miniature transfer the concepts from lingual sign system to a pictorial one? - To what extent is the miniaturist influenced by the description of the text? If not influenced, why? This miniature conveys the symbolic content of the story in a very precise manner despite the limitations of pictorial medium and the newly-emerged realism in the miniature of that time has not been an encumbrance in this regard. The symbolic message of the literary text has been portrayed in the miniature using formal components and some literary metaphors. In some cases, some details not included in the description of the text have been created.
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