Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

Narratology Analysis of Body in Qajar coffee house painting to focus on relation of the self and other (case study: Battle of Karbala)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Sharareh Eftekhari Yekta
Mehdi Mohammadadeh
Faculty of Islamic crafts,Tabriz Islamic Art University,Iran.
Abstract
In every aspect, Qajar painting opens up a new visual content to the Iranian art. In this period, art and painting changes in the facing of cultural, social and political events. One of the trends appeared in this historic era of painting known by painters' society as coffee house painting. The themes of coffee house painting depicts on the basis of religious, traditional narratives. In this way, that opens up a new context for position and concept of body in Qajar painting. Therefore, the purpose of this research is study the function of body-narration in coffee house painting. This article uses narrative discourse system based on School of Paris narrative semiotics. One of the most important topics in the field of narrative function is contrast. The structure of the contrast is among the the body of actant and anti-body of actant as function of the Self body and other body. Based on these descriptions, using the body-narration in narrative discourse approach, by specifying what factors cause function of body in the religious theme of coffee house painting. The study focuses on how the relation between is body-self and body-other, in other words, between the the body of actant and anti-body of actant.This have been answered by a descriptive-analytical method. In result, the body of actant (Hazrat Abbas) is object of cultural value and the body-collective as all the bodies of actant that defend religious-national identity.
Keywords
coffee house painting
Narratology
Body- other
Body- self
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 4, Issue 8
October 2020
Pages 37-1

  • Receive Date 09 January 2020
  • Revise Date 23 September 2020
  • Accept Date 11 April 2020