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Music Subworlds, Disjointed Mind‑Style And Possible Selves In Hoda Barakat’S Ahl Al‑Hawā: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis, Sarah M. Fayed, Amany Mohamed El-Shazly, Fatma Ismail
Music Subworlds, Disjointed Mind‑Style And Possible Selves In Hoda Barakat’S Ahl Al‑Hawā: A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis, Sarah M. Fayed, Amany Mohamed El-Shazly, Fatma Ismail
Computer Science
The representation of mental distress in fiction has been the subject of much research. Western fiction has produced numerous cognitive stylistic studies investigating how linguistic choices can serve as an effective analytical method; however, the use of cognitive stylistic tools to examine this phenomenon in Arabic remains much more limited. Furthermore, including theories such as mind-style, possible selves, and subworlds to assess mental distress is another under-researched area in Arabic fiction. Some notable work on these theories includes Emmott and Sanford (2012) on subworlds, Semino (2014) on mind-style, and Bak (2015) on possible selves and mental distress. This paper utilizes …
Contesting Narratives: Sibling Relations As Political Allegory In Lā Tukhbir Al-Ḥiṣān, Noha Hanafy
Contesting Narratives: Sibling Relations As Political Allegory In Lā Tukhbir Al-Ḥiṣān, Noha Hanafy
English Language and Literature
This article explores sibling relations in Mamdūḥ ‘Azzām’s (1950- ) Lā tukhbir al-ḥiṣān (2019, Don’t Tell the Horse). Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1895-1975) theories on the dialogic nature of the novel and the polyphony of voices existing in a single text, the article charts the characters’ movement in and out of the different storylines in ‘Azzām’s novel, and the way in which this informs the dynamic of the family story. Lending itself to multiple perspectives, ‘Azzām’s novel foregrounds the siblings’ voices over a singular authorial voice, highlighting not only their relationships in the novel, but also the way they offer …