Kurdish Poetry from the perspective of the criteria of textuality, Kurdish poetry texts of Central Kurdish dialect as an example

Abstract

This research is part of a doctoral thesis that aims to examine the nature and properties of text. The nature of text has been focused on by critics and theorists in various ways. It has also been interpreted differently within the framework of the philosophy of literature, literary criticism, and literary theory. This article sheds light on the nature and value of text within the framework of theoretical and critical viewpoints. It highlights the general and specific criteria of textuality and claims that on the basis of those criteria a text receives its scientific identity. These measures are some general indicators for the existence of textuality and they cannot be imposed on one type of text. This article conducts theoretical and critical analysis of Kurdish poetry in the Central Kurdish dialect using the concept of text and its textuality criteria. According to these criteria, which consider the general and specific principles of “text,” Kurdish poetry texts of Central Kurdish dialect are bound to those criteria and receive identity of textuality. This is because the structure of Kurdish poetry texts in the Central Kurdish dialect has its own properties in terms of language, meaningfulness, identity, type of genre, and literary elements such as idea, imagination, emotion, and form. These aspects form the structure of the texts. Throughout the history of this literary school, these aspects have changed. This can be seen by analyzing and studying the texts with theoretical and critical criteria in mind.