Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Parvin Mortazaie

Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature Department, Higher Education Center of Eghlid, Eghlid, Iran

Abstract

Sacred defense literature is one of the subsets of resistance literature that is influenced by Iraq imposed war on Iran. Expressing the values of sacred defense is one of the most important concerns of writers of children's literature today. One of the artistic methods that can be effective in conveying the concepts and themes of sacred defense is the use of signs and symbols in the title of the teen novel. With the semiotics of the title of the adolescent novel, one can discover the method of using the title, the relationship between the title and the text, and the text with the title. In the present study, which has been done in a descriptive-analytical manner, the title of the Hasti and Bagh Kianoosh novels has been semiotically. The findings show that the title of the Hasti and Bagh Kianoosh are both chosen in a symbolic way and the name of the novel is the author's own invention.Semiotic analysis of narrative elements shows that the title in these two works moves in parallel with the text and is reinforced by the axis of succession by the elements within the text.Symbol analysis in the companionship axis also reveals a semantic interrelationship between elements within the text that helps to create new meanings.These titles both preserve and reveal the identity of the work, and in the meaning of the text, move in harmony with the other elements of the story, and have succeeded in artfully expressing the values of the sacred defense.

Keywords

• Semiotics of title
• The Hasti
• The Bagh Kianoosh
• literature of resistance
• sacred defense

Main Subjects

• Literary interdisciplinary research