A semiotic reading of the contemporary Algerian poetic text, the collection “Caligula Painting Guernica of the Rais” by Azzedine Mihoubi as a model

Abstract

The student of contemporary Algerian poetry sees that it has become more mature than before, and opened up to the different literary genres and drew from them, especially in his employment of the elements of narrative discourse, in addition to containing the contemporary Algerian poetic text on many elements that were exclusive only to other literary genres such as the novel, the story and the play, so it also contains the title, dialogue and characters, which in turn carry with them a lot of suggestions that call from the recipient or the reader of this The text deciphered it, so this poetic text has become tempting to study semiotics, but it can be said that the most appropriate entrances to understand and interpret contemporary poetic texts is the semiotic entrance because of its rich semiotic material, starting with the title and textual thresholds, signs and suggestions that require deepening and discovering the semiotic signs indicative of them, Therefore, through this article, we wanted it to be about the contemporary Algerian poetic text and the endless number of semiotic signs that the latter contains.