Short Story
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Narrative montage in Youssef Ziedan's short story collection ‘Hal u Tirhal’
Hawr Ismael Mustafa
This research paper aims to investigate the art of (narrative montage in Youssef Ziedan’s short stories Hal u Tirhal). The writer obviously employs those techniques in his short stories through vigorous use of visual, technical methods, borrowed from drama and theatre montaging techniques, in parallel with narration principles. Youssef Ziedan was well acquainted with the artistic forms popular at the time of his literary career and he was successful in using cinematic arts, in particular montage. This reflects a high level of literary awareness as research shows he strongly believed that a writer’s job is not merely to write and narrate events, but a writer is an artist who produces art, like artists across other fields. Thus, narration, a part from linguistic and literary meanings, is a system of moving images which have previously been formed in the writer’s imagination and require specific tools and hard work to be transferred to the receiver the way they are in the writer’s imagination. This visual texture which comprises editing, cutting, removing, forwarding, mixing, and other montaging functions entails an in-depth analysis and a detailed description to be discovered by a researcher. Therefore, a descriptive, analytical method is the best means to achieve this goal. The paper has found out that Youssef Ziedan has used various chronological orders in the Hal wa Tirhal stories; some stories use a linear structure, whereas others follow a more complicated, non-linear narration. Apart from that, he has used montaging techniques such as acceleration, slowing down, mixing, fading, rapid transformation from one scene to another, visual and auditory effects, and flashback. This has given the author a unique writing style.
Volume 12 · Issue 1 · February 2025Pragmatic Deixis in Kurdish Short Stories
fahmi hassan Rashad
The study of pragmatic deixis is crucial in discourse analysis, as it contextualizes speech in relation to the speaker, place, time, and social context. These features are particularly significant in short stories, where the narrative relies on the proper use of deictic markers. Understanding pragmatic deixis requires familiarity with the grammatical structure of the language and the relationship between text and context, including elements like time, place, and shared knowledge between the speaker and listener. These factors contribute to conveying the intended meaning and purpose in discourse. Pragmatic deixis links the speaker’s language to the surrounding context, making it an essential part of pragmatic analysis, especially in literary works like short stories. This study, titled “Pragmatic Deixis in Kurdish Short Stories,” focuses on the book "Xewin jî qedegene" as a case study. The research explores the frequent use of deictic markers, which often appear in literary texts, especially short stories. Due to time constraints and the limited scope of the research, it is not possible to analyze every instance of deixis. Therefore, the study concentrates on two short stories, "Eve kiça mine" and "Mudirê nû," to demonstrate how pragmatic deixis functions in these narratives. The research consists of an introduction, two main chapters, and a conclusion. Chapter One contains two sections: the first addresses the theoretical framework, explaining pragmatic deixis, its concept, and its various types. The second section explores the structure of the short story, including its title, introduction, and content. Chapter Two analyzes the use of pragmatic deixis in the selected short stories, providing insights into how these linguistic markers are employed effectively. Keywords: Pragmatic deixis, speech deixis, sections of speech deixis, deictic expressions, short story.
Volume 12 · Issue 1 · February 2025The Use of the Setting in Boosting the Theme of Solitude in Selected Modern Short Stories
Najat Ismael Sayakhan, Ismael Muhamad fahmi Saeed
Human beings recollect memories, events, or certain actions by the way the snow-flakes cover the leaves of the olive tree in their backyard. It is the setting that gives life much of its meaning, shape and color. For the story writer, setting is the entrance for his readers through which they wander in the world which he creates. Setting is a crucial element of the narrative fiction. In some works of literature, it functions as a character. In certain cases (say a prison, for instance) the psychological toll of setting can be devastating. Writers intentionally set their stories in such a way as to guide their characters and help them not to go astray in outer space and time. The specific time, geographical location, and the mood of the character help the story evolve to attract the reader’s attention to what happens next. The texts chosen for this study have the theme of solitude in common. The researchers intend to explore the setting in these texts as they aim at finding the knot which ties the setting and the theme of solitude together. This study follows an interpretive-analytical methodology in which nine modern short stories are closely examined. The literary theory adopted in this research is psychoanalysis; for each text a method of psychoanalysis is applied. The researchers will answer the question of whether the setting plays any role in accelerating the characters’ awareness of solitude, despair and loneliness. The texts are Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” (1889), Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” (1920), D. H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1926), Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” (1934), Earnest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936), Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” (1941), Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1968), Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” (1981), and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “American History” (1993). Due to the nature of this topic, it will be inevitable to make reference to the plot in the works selected for this paper.
Volume 9 · Issue 3 · June 2022Presupposition According to Yule’s Perspective in Short Story
Khasro Ahmed Rasul
The Study is devoted to presupposition in short story. Based on Yule’s view the types of presupposition have been presented. In the study, the story of (Throne and Crown of Kwekha Homer-Taji Takhti kwekha Homar) has been chosen as a sample so as to investigate the types of presupposition according to Yule’s perspective, then, the percentage of pragmatic presupposition in the story are specified. Apart from the introduction, conclusion, appendix, and list of references, the study comprises of sections. First section deals with defining concepts, and types of presupposition whereas section two includes two parts. The first part focuses on the stylistics and the language of short story. Part two of section two is a practical section specifies the percentage of pragmatic presuppositions.