And other letters for the meaning

The creative text is a semiotic energy source derived from the potentials of writing and its horizons, and the meaning is a reader's path in understanding the text through the relationship between its elements and the initial contexts that seep into its folds and turns. The text becomes richer with semantic loads in proportion to its richness in signs, and the distinction of semiotic approaches lies in tracking the movement of the signifier within the text. This is the core that the semiotic approaches to the creative text are built upon. The conception of the structure of meaning from a semiotic perspective begins with the basic rules of the act of reading; this act primarily relies on analyzing the semiotic components of meaning before studying the semantic components related to the structural semantic framework of the text, then the value components related to the intellectual structure of the referential cognitive frameworks to which the work refers. This book addresses Arabic texts in novel, poetry, and story semiotically: with Greimas in narrative semiotics, Jack Fontan in semiotics of passions, Yuri Lotman in semiotics of space, Umberto Eco in semiotics of possible worlds, Peirce in tracking the sign, and Gérard Genette in paratexts. Each of these approaches opens a letter from the alphabet of meaning.