Analysis of the Titles of Adolescent Novels (the Novel Hasti, Call Me Ziba and Younes's Romances in the Belly of a Fish) from the Descriptive Perspective of Gerard Genet.

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahrekord University. Shahr e Kord, ,Iran

Abstract

Analysis of the Titles of Adolescent Novels (the Novel Hasti, Call Me Ziba and Younes's Romances in the Belly of a Fish) from the Descriptive Perspective of Gerard Genet.
 
Introduction
The title as a contextual factor plays an important role in attracting the audience and reading the text. This component is doubly important and valuable in adolescent fiction. The title of the work must be chosen artistically in order to display the quality of the text. The importance of choosing a title for children's and adolescents' fiction is doubly important according to their needs and age conditions. Given the growth and development of cyberspace and computer games that are available to children and adolescents today, child writers must be creative in choosing the title, theme and theme of the story in order to compete with the virtual world. Encourage children to read and read stories. One of the creative tricks in attracting the audience is choosing the right title for the work. A title that encourages the child to read the story. The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the descriptive function of the titles of the novels of Hasti, call me Ziba and the romances of Younes in the belly of a fish based on Gerard Genet's extra-textual and intra-textual theory. The titles of these novels have been studied and analyzed based on Gerard Genet. Theory and descriptive functions (thematic, ironic, metaphorical, etc.).
Research method and research history
The research method is qualitative analysis of the content of the works and the method of collecting information is in the form of library documents. No independent research has been done on the Analysis of the titles of adolescent novels based on the descriptive functions of Gerard Genet; but there have been studies on the subject of fiction and novels that point to some of the most important issues. Absolutely Maadikhah and Namvar (2013) in his master's thesis entitled "The context of the title and the title as the threshold of the text in cinema with emphasis on the works of Abbas Kiarostami" based on Gerard Genet's views on the vision of the text, "Title And "title" of the film are introduced as types of context that play an important role in how the audience reads the text of the work. Namvar Motlagh (2009) in the article on the title of Iranian works of art and literature, a semiotic study of the title of art from the fourth to the twelfth century, with a semiotic approach, the titles of literary and architectural works of Iranian culture from the fourth century AH. He studied until the end of the Safavi period and then points to the economic role of modern titles. Salehi, Sara et al. (1398) in the article "Study of the titles of war stories in the field of children and adolescents, addressed the category of titles in terms of structure and content. The results of this study showed that the structure of titles in the 60's is simpler than combined; as we distance ourselves from the war, the titles become more artistic, and the themes of the titles pay more attention to the time of the war than to the front or nostalgia for the war.
Discussion
Hasti and call me Ziba novels by Farhad Hassanzadeh and Younes's love novels in the belly of a fish by Jamshid Khanian have been selected for review. The titles of these novels have been studied and analyzed based on Gerard Genet theory. First, a summary of the novels is presented, and then the titles of the novels are analyzed based on Genet's theory and descriptive approach. According to Genet, the title of the novel has a function of identity. The title of the story includes the life of a teenage girl named Hasti. The character of the universe is present and plays a role in all scenes. From the point of view of Genet, the title of Younes's romance novel in the belly of a fish is an extra-textual title. This refers to mythical elements and characters. The subject of the novel also has a mystical and spiritual aspect. Younes' love for Sarah is a guiding and transcendental love. In terms of Gerard's descriptive functions, the title of the novel Call Me Ziba is a thematic title. "Thematic titles that represent the theme and are presented in different ways" (Zhou, 1394: 4). The title of the novel indicates the situation of people who have been neglected due to mental illness and now frustrated and helpless; they seek a way out of this situation.
Result
The study and analysis of the titles of adolescent novels based on Gerard Genet. perimeter theory and different functions of the title (descriptive, identity, absorption, etc.) showed that the artistic choice of the title has a great effect on encouraging the audience to read the text and story. Among the works reviewed, Younes's romance novel in Fish Belly, based on Genet's theory, has an extra-textual title and a thematic function. An extra-textual title is a title that also refers to the world outside the text and leaves the understanding of part of the message of the story to the background of the audience's mind. The words of Younes and the belly of the fish are reminiscent of the story of Younes for the audience. While the story of the novel is a narrative of spiritual and transcendental love, the symbolism of Younes' character, his symbolic death and his departure from the belly of the fish, which symbolizes the dark and material world, have revealed the extra-textual aspects of the work. The title of this novel, unlike the other two novels, has other functions such as absorption and metaphorical function. The title of the novel is a title of identity. Identity card shows the work and identity of the fictional character.
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Resources
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Ahmadi, Ali Asghar (2008) Personality and Behavior, Tehran: Rezaei Ashtiani.
Bashiri, Mahmoud, Aghajani, Somayeh (2016) "Comparative study of the title in the novels of sustainability literature based on the novels of Da and Um Sad", Journal of Literary Text Research, Volume 20, Number 68, pp. 93-114.
Jamali, Atefeh, Sheikhi, Tahereh (1397) "Semiotics of image layers on the cover of adolescent novels", Journal of Child Studies, Volume 9, Number 17, pp. 49-72.
Hassanzadeh, Farhad. (1389) you are. Tehran: Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents.
Hassanzadeh, Farhad (2015) Call me beautiful, Tehran: Children and Adolescents Intellectual Development Center.
Khanian, Jamshid (2010) Younes' romances in the belly of a fish, Tehran, Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents.
Radmanesh, Shabnam, Sha'iri, Hamidreza (2013) "Semantic-semantic study of the relationship between title and painting" Case study "Continuation of Memory" by Salvador Dali and "Scream" by Edward Munch ". Journal of Literary Criticism, Year 6, Issue 24, pp. 7-30.
Ranjbar, Mahmoud (1397) "Analysis of problematic critical realism in the beautiful novel Call Me", Journal of Literary Criticism and Theory, third year, second volume, pp. 99-119.
Zhou, Vincent (2015) Poetics of the novel, translated by Nosrat Hejazi, Tehran: Scientific and cultural.
Shafiee Kadkani, Mohammad Reza (2007) the Social Background of Persian Poetry, Tehran: Zamaneh VA Akhtaran.
Knight, Jean and Gerbran, Allen. (2008) Culture of Symbols. Translation and research by Soodabeh Fazaili, vols. 3 and 5, Tehran: Jeyhun.
Salehi, Sara, Rastgoo, Seyed Mohammad, Mohammad Reza Yousefi and Fatemeh Sadat Taheri, (1398) "Study-title of war stories in the field of children and adolescents", Journal of Literary Technologies, Volume 11, Number 2, pp. 51-68.
Farhadi, Tayebeh, Jahantegh, Maryam and Mohammad Barani (1399) "Guiding and transcendental love in the romance novel of Younes in the belly of a fish", Journal of Lyrical Literature, Volume 18, Number 35, pp. 141-164
Ghaeini, Zohreh. (2011) Illustration of children's books. Tehran: Cultural, Artistic and Research Institute for the History of Children's Literature.
Kangrani, Manijeh (2009) Collection of Articles of the Fourth Symposium on the Semiotics of Art, as well as Symposium Studies on Cinema. Tehran: Academy of Arts.
Luscher, Max (1137). Psychology and Colors, translated by Moniro Ravanipour, Tehran: Yadavareh Academy Publishing Institute.
Mohammadi, Ebrahim, Ghafouri, Effat and Abdolrahim Haghdadi (2014) "Comparative study of the title of the story in the stories of Sadegh Hedayat and Zakaria Tamer". Journal of Comparative Literature Research, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 191-217.
Mohammadi, Ebrahim and Tahereh Ghasemi Durabadi (2015). "Study and analysis of the titles of books and poems of Mehdi Akhavan Sales", Persian literature, year 6, number 1, (17 consecutive), pp. 77-92.
Younesi, Ebrahim (2017) the Art of Fiction, Seventh Edition, and Tehran: Negah.