Temporal Arrangement in Novels: "The Fragility of Tales" and "Iraq Cinema" by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Saad.

Abstract

Abstract:

The significant feature in the temporal arrangement of my novels, "The Fragility of Tales" and "Iraq Cinema" by the Basra novelist Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Saad, is that both levels of arrangement and frequency share equally in shaping the temporal structure. The level of arrangement is determined through two important foundations: retrieval and anticipation. Retrieval is divided into external and internal retrieval, while anticipation is defined by three patterns: declarative anticipation, anticipation through dreams, and anticipation through prediction. The narrative scope in both novels does not extend to the level of frequency as seen in many Arabic and global novels. This is due to the fact that the relationship of frequency is closer to the narrative style than to the narrative time, which is not found in these two novels.