Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

A study of the two sensory-perceptual and emotional dimensions of discourse in the novels of Albert camus the Stranger and The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 French, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 French, Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jlc.2025.522518.1728
Abstract
Discursive semiotics is a process that examines how meaning functions, is produced, and is received in discourse systems. Our discourse analysis method is based on the discourse semiotics approach, which studies the flow of meaning within the contexts of a discourse system to determine how meaning in language is transformed from a static state to a dynamic state. For this purpose, we chose two novels, The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, because the main characters of the novels (Meursault and the narrator) are constantly in contact with sensory spaces that challenge their perception, based on the proposed perspective.The original meaning of the stranger is strange and distant, but in Albert Camus's The Stranger, the stranger means someone who is in conflict with the social system, and in The Blind Owl, the meaning that is taken from the dictionary is different from the meaning hidden in the story. In this study, we aim to understand how the discourse system in the two novels The Stranger and The Blind Owl produces an identity that is in conflict with the majority of society. This research is qualitative, based on library sources and an interpretive method, and has been conducted using a descriptive-analytical method. By analyzing the aforementioned novels, we found that the impact of the main characters' relationships with other characters in the story is that their perception is constantly changing with different sensory spaces.
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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 22 July 2025

  • Receive Date 11 May 2025
  • Revise Date 15 July 2025
  • Accept Date 22 July 2025