The Semiotics of Parallel Texts in the Poetic Works for Muhammad Ahmad Mansour Between Furnishing Reading and Enriching Meaning

Abstract

This research attempts to find out the importance of parallel texts in the poetic works of Muhammad Ahmad Mansour and to what extent they can direct reading and synthesize meaning through interpreting the signs of parallel discourse and revealing its functions and patterns. The research has been divided into two main sections. The first section deals with the external parallel texts represented by the cover page and its linguistic signs, such as the title, the author’s name, the naturalization and the publisher, or icons like colors and shapes; the second section deals with the internal parallel texts represented by the author’s biography and photograph, dedication, prefaces, writing space, appendixes, footnotes and images. Using the approximate semiotic approach for interpreting the signs of parallel texts, the research comes to conclude that parallel texts in a literary work are constructive and semantic patterns which have contributed to its construction, the formation of its entity, the expansion of its poetry, the decoding of its codes, the interpretation of its meaning, and gained it semantic and aesthetic dimensions.