Specialists of Discourse Analysis support their formal and lexical studies of literary texts with socio-cultural elements. Norman Fairclough analyses the texts in three levels of description, interpretation and determination. This method is very beneficial in discovering the writers’ perspectives as well as their socio-political approaches.
This article, following Fairclough’s method, reads “Wandering-State Island” by Simin Dāneshvar in order to show how the elements of identity, freedom, colonialism, wandering-state of modern man, tradition and modernity, and religion are significant when considering the different layers of the novel; meanwhile the cohesive combination of these elements form the dominant discourse of Dāneshvar’s novel which relates it to her other novels.
Agha Golzadeh, F., Ghobadi, H. A., & Dasp, S. A. (2011). A Discursive Analysis of Dāneshvar’s “Wandering-State Island” and its Semantic Relations to Her Other Novels. Journal of Adab Pazhuhi, 5(15), 35-57.
MLA
Ferdows Agha Golzadeh; Hossein Ali Ghobadi; Seyd Ali Dasp. "A Discursive Analysis of Dāneshvar’s “Wandering-State Island” and its Semantic Relations to Her Other Novels". Journal of Adab Pazhuhi, 5, 15, 2011, 35-57.
HARVARD
Agha Golzadeh, F., Ghobadi, H. A., Dasp, S. A. (2011). 'A Discursive Analysis of Dāneshvar’s “Wandering-State Island” and its Semantic Relations to Her Other Novels', Journal of Adab Pazhuhi, 5(15), pp. 35-57.
VANCOUVER
Agha Golzadeh, F., Ghobadi, H. A., Dasp, S. A. A Discursive Analysis of Dāneshvar’s “Wandering-State Island” and its Semantic Relations to Her Other Novels. Journal of Adab Pazhuhi, 2011; 5(15): 35-57.
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