نقد معناشناختي در مطالعه تطبيقي ادبيات و نقاشي با تكيه بر داستان ليلي و مجنون

Semantic Review in Comparative Study of Literature and Painting Focusing on the Tale of Leili and Majnoon

The study and analysis of miniature painting, the discovery of visual symbols and its comparative study with the textual hallmarks on one hand and reviewing some of the most fundamental theories of semantics in assessing the images (especially in modern semiotics) on the other, will result in new and illuminating achievements in the study of traditional Iranian imagery. In this article, in a general perspective, the reciprocal relation between literature and painting in the Iranian traditional art will be primarily projected. Then, the historical aspects of Leili and Majnoon, the precedence of the tale as well as the development of Nezamiʹs great tragedy are analyzed. Further, through the case study, a comparative analysis of literature and painting with an approach to the semantic and semiotic theories is conducted on a number of miniatures of Leili and Majnoon. The selected miniatures are chosen based on selected parts of the story (schoolhouse, Majnoonʹs visiting the desert and Leili and Majnoonʹs fainting). The present research aims at discovering the hidden semantic aspects of these works through the comparative study of text and image in these miniatures, while correcting certain errors of the Western researchers in describing the images; such errors are occurred due to the lack of complete access of the western researchers to the text of the story as well as their ignorance of the mystical contents of the work. Generally, the author tries to present the semantic aspects of the visual symbols of those images by expressing the literary meanings of these miniatures.