Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran
2 PhD student in Persian language and literature, Kashan University
Abstract
According to the theory of Roland Barthes, a twentieth-century French theorist and philosopher, about the difference between a work and a text. The main question of this article is whether Hafiz's sonnet is a text or a work?
To get the answer, the seven chapters that Roland Barthes has stated in his theory of “From work to text”, has been studied on the basis of one of Hafez's sonnets. That's how it starts “If my hand reaches your hair again/ I will sacrifice many heads in your way like a ball”
The lecture of this article goes beyond this example and uses the more general evidence of Hafez's sonnets. With the help of this method and Implementation of Roland Barthes theory on the mentioned sonnet, we could get this result that Hafez's sonnet is both, pluralistic and contradictory. It has both infinite meanings and is experienced in relation to the signifier. It isn’t a consumer goods and it has an element of pleasure. It has anti-classification riot power and symbolization. As a result, Hafez’s sonnets deserve to be known “text” not “work”.
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