The Narrative Structure of Nezami's Khosrow-va-Shirin (based on the Semiotic theory of Greimas)

In the Greimasian semiotic discussion, in order to know the stages of production and apprehension of the meaning, deep structure of the narrative is to be analyzed according to a variety of processes and patterns of discourse. Since studying and recognizing the mechanisms of meaning production in the lyrical poems seems necessary; In the present study, semiotic features and processes of the meaning production in Nezami’s Khosrow-va- Shirin have been considered and analyzed based on Greimas semiotic theory and using the descriptive-analytic method. The purpose of this article is to clear the issue that to what extent the Greimas theory, which is universal and flexible for analyzing a variety of texts, is adaptable to lyrical poems? Moreover, it is discussed that how the[sensory-emotional form affects semantic actant and results in production of the meaning. The results demonstrate that the meaning in lyrical poems is produced in the template of action and l̛état. The narrative of Khosrow-va- Shirin doesn’t follow Greimas proposed patterns for production of the meaning and in this path it is faced with some challenge in which The time actant, along with the temporal segmentation and expectation actant, have leading roles in realization and production of the challenging narrative meanings.