Abstract
This study explores the linguistic structure and text thresholds in Jalal Barjas's 2020 novel 'Dafatir al-Warraq.' The novel creates a narrative language grounded in a philosophical context of text thresholds, forming a basis for inquiries inspired by the painful realities of contemporary life. The narrative language and its thresholds play a mediating role, integrating other elements, despite a division that reflects the hero’s schizophrenia and his loss of the correct path.
Hence, the study aims to evaluate the language of narration by considering narrative writing as an approach to storytelling. This approach led to the novel being narrated once in the form of notebooks and again as threshold narration (textual thresholds), in both its external and internal dimensions. The study seeks to uncover the regulatory relationship of the multiple narrative textual thresholds employed by the novel, using narrative methodology concepts to approach this issue. Among the study's prominent findings is that the narrative language is based on the data recorded in the character's notebooks, serving as an influential factor in the novel's constructive narrative, particularly concerning event and time. This is accompanied by a mature dialogue between the work's content and its multiple textual thresholds in both external and internal dimensions.
Recommended Citation
Al-Shamali, Nidal and Al-Bayarri, Murad
(2023)
"The Linguistic Structure in 'Dafatir al-Warraq' by Jalal Bargas: 'The Notebooks of the Papermaker' Novel Between the Act of Notation and the Speech of Thresholds,"
Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series: Vol. 37:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.aaru.edu.jo/jjoas-h/vol37/iss1/1