تجليات الصورة المرئية في النقد المعاصر : الراهن و الافاق

Abstract EN

The present article tackles an important issue in the domain of semiotics and its relationship with literary criticism.

It seeks to unveil the extent to which the culture of visual image affects the modern approach to literary criticism.

Our modern epoch is dominated by the culture of visual images.

This is why, critics' focus shifted from the emphasis on the messages' content to the analysis of the form of that content.

Since, discourse form has a critical impact on revealing meaning, modern critical analysis gives more and more importance to the study of semiotics in general and images in particular as a primary tool to understand texts and their analysis