Abstract:
The current research, taking into account three standards of Beaugrande & Dressler’s textual-cognitive model i.e. cohesion, coherence, intertextuality, explains the four-fold stages of textual perception in Sohrab Sepehri's poetic collection Zendegi-ye Khwabhâ (Dreams’ Life). The aim of the study is to find a new analytical method of the contemporary poetry that is identified through the text hence; it is a collection of identical and mental processes that gradually ring forth the method of understanding and stages of perception to readers. Based on the above model, this study elaborates on a quadric procedure, consisting of parsing, concept recovery, idea recovery and plan recovery for perceiving Sepehri’s poetry. Here, “parsing” is achieved through collocation; “concept recovery”, through finding the schema; “idea recovery” through taking a sequence of actions and looking for background knowledge and intertextuality; and finally the “plan recovery” through attachment. In other words, a receiver arrives at sequence of actions following collocations that fills the gap in the text and discovers the poet’s schema through sharing his/her background information with instances of intertextuality. Sepehri succeeded in expressing his metaphysical experiences in a compact way through repeating and describing a chain schema via appealing to surrealism and mysticism as elements of intertextuality.
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Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Received: 2013/07/14 Accepted: 2013/10/14 Abstract In this research, we have described the four stages of text reception according to Beaugrande and Dressler's three criteria of textuality, namely cohesion, coherence, and intertextuality, in the poetry collection "Life's Dreams" by Sohrab Sepahri.
First, by segmenting the text, we find important words or content control centers, and then we grasp the poem as continuous concepts through inference and discover the poet's mental schema for expressing its narrative.
This article, by accepting the opinion of the second group, proves the system of Sepahri's poetry based on Beaugrande and Dressler's "stages of text reception" in a collection of eight Sepahri books titled "The Life of Dreams.
Segmentation and concept retrieval In this research, the stages of text reception are carried out based on the segmentation of the text of the poetry collection "Life of Dreams" through 37 Type 38 scripts we perform with the help of collocation, which from Halliday's view is a type of repetition (1990: 312), and we retrieve concepts using Porter's theory regarding types of collocations in semantic fields.
Now, if we place the "temporal" concepts of night, the "events" of hearing a sound, the opening of a door or window, the moment of the blowing of light, or the end of a dream, and the "action" of the poet's regret in succession, we discover the poet's mental schema; that is, we trace the regular continuity of events and states that constitute the components of the subject so that we can predict the applicable discourse on the text based on it (see: Theoretical Framework, "Retrieval of Concepts").
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