Bücher von Samir Al-Sheikh

The Oriental Seaman is a semiotic quest for Sindbad's seven voyages. The study purports to investigate the semiotic parameters underlying the structure of these narratives. It aims at exploring the syntagmatic, paradigmatic and signifying relationships. Sindbad's voyages, viewed as one whole coherent paradigm of signs, are a semiotic system structured in a narrative code. They are the symbolic representations of the Eastern - Islamic culture where these tales were germinated. They, therefore, share a set of universal principles, though they sometimes follow culture - specific constraints.

In the odessy of knowledge, stylistics and semiotics have emerged as two epsitemic trends to unlock the secrets of literary discourse. The quest for meaning is the hallmark of the stylsitc - semiotic research. If stylistics chases meaning and meaning-making in a literary discourse, semiotics hunts the potentiality of meaning in all forms of culture. Being so, Sailing to Roseland stands for a work of art that is created by the power of imagination, and encoded into a set of structural relations. The central area of the analysis is the poetic- mythic discourse. While stylistic scrutiny is devoted to Keats and Kabbani's poetic works, semiotics fundamentally explores the Mesopotamian and Greek mythologies. This worldview may give the book its universal feature.