The artistic and aesthetic mechanisms of narrative experimentation in the novel "Jabalu Al-Zumurrud" by Mansoura Ez El-Din: A critical and analytical study
| dc.contributor.author | Balat, Samah Mohamed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-23T07:00:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-07-23T07:00:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study is intended to highlight the artistic and aesthetic mechanisms of narrative experimentation, in the contemporary Arabic novel. It seeks to identify what experimentation is and what are its main functions. Experimentation is the core of creativity and its main catalyst, as it transcends the stereotypical and static aspects in the form and themes of the traditional novel. After all, the novel is the most extended and renewable form of literature. In the structure and content of narrative discourse, experimentation also intends to deviate from the paradigm, to depart from the authority of the sanctities, to raise questions, to destabilize the constants, and in so doing creates a new aesthetic thought. Furthermore, this study also aims to analyse the technical procedures that enhance the anecdotal text, through the analysis of Jabalu Al-Zumurrud "The Emerald Mountain" by the Arab female author, Mansoura Ez El-Din. It is a philosophical novel whose narrative component and anecdotal structure abound with aesthetic qualities, and it is a creative combination of realism and exoticism. It is also a counter-epic narrative to the classical Arabic work Alf laila wa laila (A thousand nights and a night), a novel in which, the narration, the nights and mystic contemplation are intertwined. From this point of view, this research further aims to discover the techniques of experimentation that shaped the narrative imagination and resulted in drastic changes in the narrative vision, scope, and structure of the Arabic novel. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20568 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.subject | Arabic Novel | |
| dc.subject | Feminist writing | |
| dc.subject | Miraculous literature | |
| dc.subject | Reception Theory | |
| dc.subject | Semiotics | |
| dc.title | The artistic and aesthetic mechanisms of narrative experimentation in the novel "Jabalu Al-Zumurrud" by Mansoura Ez El-Din: A critical and analytical study | |
| dc.type | Thesis |