Structure of the narrator and the techniques of his formation in the narrative discourse the novelist Radwa Ashour

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1 Minia University - Faculty of Dar Al Uloom

2 أستاذ البلاغة والنقد الأدبي - كلية دار العلوم - جامعة المنيا

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This research aims to study the structure of the Narrator and the techniques of his formation in the narrative discourse of the novelist Radwa Ashour, and to determine how to employ this structure through structural approach. The research came in an introduction in which the researcher addressed the concept of the narrator, his patterns, and his functions in the novels that are the subject of the study. Then the researcher discussed the narrator’s patterns. And the various techniques of its formation, according to Gerard Genette’s perspective and as imposed by the study, as follows:External Narrator: The study was occupied with it’s both types; whether he was all-knowing or had limited knowledge, Radwa Ashour employed him in many different forms. Her Novels were full of diverse artistic values. Among these uses and functions which was presenting the characters, paying attention to them, and involving the recipient in the events, by presenting them at the beginning of the characters and using emotions, which is what the study pointed out in analyzing the novels Trilogy Granada, Seraj, and Warm Stone.The Inner narrator: He is the opposite of the external narrator, where he overlooks the events of the novel, whether he was a participant or a witness. The study revealed that this type appears extensively in Radwa Ashour’s novels, as it is linked to the novelist’s abundance of this conscience in her efforts to find some aesthetic artistic values ​​that are embodied in involving the narrator in the events were part of them, and this is one of the most important functions on which she relied in presenting this technique in her novels, and it contributed to the involvement of this type of events in revealing feelings,  describing the characters, and bringing them close to the reader.

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