December 22, 2024
Leila Rezaei

Leila Rezaei

Academic Rank: Assistant professor
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Degree: Ph.D in -
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Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Research

Title
A Narratological study of a novel from Rahnaward Zaryab: Char Girde Ghala Gashtom (Based on Gennette’s Theory)
Type Thesis
Keywords
داستان، روايت شناسي، ژرار ژنت، رهنورد زرياب
Researchers sohrab amini (Student) , Leila Rezaei (Primary advisor) , Naser Jaberi (Advisor)

Abstract

Narratology is a set of rules for identifying narrative types and structures. Gérard Genette is the prominent structuralist theorist of narratology who presented a complete and comprehensive plan for studying narratives. The novel "Char Gerd-e Qala Gestom" written by Azam Rahnavard Zaryab is one of the most important novels of contemporary Afghan literature, which deserves to be studied both in terms of structure and content. It reflects an important part of Afghanistan's contemporary history. Undoubtedly, the structural analysis of this work - in which various narrative techniques are used - will be a way to discover the hidden meanings of this novel. The aim of the research is investigating the narrative structures used in this novel and to find their semantic functions. To examine the narrative structure of the novel "Char Gerd-e Qala Gestom", this research will apply a descriptive-analytical way and use the method of structuralist narratology to focus on Gerard Genet's ideas in three sections: "narrative voice", "narrative time" and "narrative view". The result shows that the multiplicity of narrators and focalizers in this novel is one of the most fundamental factors of creating meaning in this narrative. It seems that the multiplicity of first-person narrators, which has created an aesthetic illusion in the text, along with the use of a dead narrator, which is a special and original type of narrator, has been effective in creating the atmosphere of magical realism. In this narrative, “time” is standing somewhere in the middle of dream and reality by distancing itself from reality and using anachrony in accordance with magical realism. Therefore, the structure and meaning in this novel are in the same direction to reach a common goal, and this harmony plays an important role in beauty and impression of this work.