KHÚC HÁT NHỮNG DÒNG SÔNG CỦA NGUYỄN THẾ QUANG TỪ GÓC NHÌN CỦA “LÍ THUYẾT THẾ GIỚI NGÔN TỪ”

Abstract

This article applies “text world theory” to examine The Song of the Rivers by Nguyễn Thế Quang, a novel highly regarded in contemporary Vietnamese literature for both its artistic and cultural significance. The theoretical framework views a literary text as a living world embedded within a complex and distinctive linguistic system, in which each linguistic unit functions as a sign representing the ways the world is “interpreted” and constructed by agents within the text. Applying this framework to the analysis of narrative works enables readers and literary critics to gain deeper insights into the aesthetic qualities of linguistic poetics while also uncovering the system of latent meanings that underlies the artistic world painstakingly crafted by the writer.