To Judge a Book by its Cover: Religio-Cultural Myth on the Cover of Iranian War Literature

Ghandeharion, Azra; Mousavi-Takiyeh, Maryam

doi:10.1080/02564718.2020.1787708

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“…The researcher saw what was done by Liffen [10] who succeeded in revealing the model of women's empowerment in the cover of the romance novel of Women Workers Catching Herring in Scotland. Ghandeharion & Mousavi-Takiyeh [11] challenges the old adage that the cover is meant to be a material for assessing the content of a book when conducting a religious-cultural study in cover literature on the Iran war. Meanwhile Mossop [12] also revealed the criteria for deciding whether the cover should be seen as an intersemiotic translation.…”

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Ideology on Markesot Series Cover by Emha Ainun Nadjib: A Semiotic Study

Kurniawan

Mutia²

2021

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This study aims to reveal and describe the symbols used by Javanese culturalists to communicate Javanese philosophy to a pluralistic modern society. The method used is a descriptive qualitative approach using Barthes semiotic method to understanding its meanings. The results of this study indicate that there are messages and ideologies that Emha Ainun Nadjib is trying to convey through his work. Emha tries to describe modern Javanese philosophy through the use of attributes attached to Punakawan figures. This study aims to reveal and describe the symbols used by Javanese culturalists to communicate Javanese philosophy to a pluralistic modern society. The method used is a descriptive qualitative approach using the Barthes semiotic method to understand its meaning. The results of this study indicate that there are messages and ideologies that Emha Ainun Nadjib is trying to convey through his work. Emha tries to describe modern Javanese philosophy through the use of attributes attached to the Punakawan character. So it can be concluded that through the fictional character Markesot, Emha is actually conveying his ideology and views on the current state of the nation. This research is expected to be a reference for how an ideology can be conveyed in a language that is not necessarily explicit, but still pays attention to the local culture aspects

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confidence: 99%