Document Type : Research paper

Author

• tahereh heydari

Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature

Abstract

Study of the miraculous narration in the novel “Dafātir al-warrāq” by Barjas, Jalāl based on Todorov’s theory

The new Arabic novel cannot reach its creative climax, and it cannot maintain its continuity except by inventing new mechanisms that carry rhetorical connotations and discourses in all its dimensions. Miraculousness is one of the eminent experimental and literary phenomena that preoccupied the thought of critics and scholars. In this type, there is a penetration and breaking of everything that is realistic and familiar and the creation of another world that causes confusion and astonishment in the mind of the reader. The contemporary Jordanian novel tried to build a modern text novel and was able to transcend the narrative traditions and enter a new experience in a way that presents a narrative technique represented in the miraculous and the exotic. We have chosen the novel “Novels of Warraq” by ، Barjas, Jalāl, which won the Booker Prize in 2021 AD, as a model for this study, for reasons including the lack of university studies in it. In the search for manifestations of the miracles in “Dafātir al-warrāq” we relied on the most appropriate approach, which is the descriptive-analytical approach, and then on the structural approach in analyzing the narrative text. In the end, we reached the most important results, the most important of which is that this novel can be considered one of the examples of miraculous literature according to Todorf’s theory.

Keywords

• Dafātir al-warrāq
• Jalāl Barjas
• narrative
• miraculous literature
• Tzvetan Todorov

Main Subjects

• Methodical critique and analysis of literary texts in Arabic New critical approach