The Problem of Narrator and Techniques of Narrative Construction: A Study of Selected Arab novels.

Ali, Omaima Abdul-Jabbar

doi:10.33899/berj.2025.186990

	The Problem of Narrator and Techniques of Narrative Construction: A Study of Selected Arab novels.
College Of Basic Education Research Journal
Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 1-20 PDF (520.78 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.33899/berj.2025.186990
Author
Omaima Abdul-Jabbar Ali^*
General Directorate of Education, Salah al-Din
Abstract
This paper approaches the subject of narrator through examining a number of Arabic novels that belong to modernist and post-modernist period. It also approaches the methods of construction and formal techniques based on net of artistic elements. Since these novels attempt to innovate the novel's expressive , artistic and aesthetic style, they deal with the means of expression and elements of formation according to a new vision that contributes to build narrative space, in which the fictional setting dominates a large part of narrative movement in the novel. The spatial performance is reflected in characters, events, times, and all elements of the composition without exception. A group of modern Arabic novels were selected that can answer the questions and aspirations of the research argument, namel: Naguib Mahfouz's The Thief And the Dogs, Aamil Sukkal's Al-Asayta by, Zain Abdul Hadi's The War of Evil, Al-Jamal Boutayeb's The Women’s Market or P.O. Box: 26 and Intisar. Abdel Moneim's Jokat: Tales of the Red House). A critical reading of these novels is done based on narrator’s approach and nature of artistic structure and aesthetics of textual expression.
Keywords
novel; narrator; problem; techniques; narrative structure

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