Reading the structure of temporality in the story of "Al-Jenniya" by Ghazi Al-Qosaibi (Based on Gerard Genet's theory of time)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assosiate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assosiate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in University of Qom, Qom, Iran

10.22091/npa.2025.12526.1032

Abstract

Time in the narrative is one of the basic and inseparable components on the basis of which the course of the narrative proceeds, and by visualizing it in the story, one can understand how the structure of time and its importance in narratives. This issue has come to the attention of scholars in recent decades, with Gerard Genet, a French structuralist critic, as its predecessor. She distinguishes between text time and story time, and divides it into three parts as order, continuity, and frequency. In the present study, Ghazi Al-Qasebi's novel Al-Janiyah has been studied and comparatively analyzed from the perspective of the components of narrative time, based on Gerard Genet's theory. One of the most important findings of this paper is that Ghazi Al-Qusaybi has been able to create a multi-layered story with an unprecedented theme by placing the narrative design on a non-linear structure and with the help of techniques such as sequence, continuity and frequency. These techniques have played important functions in the structure of the novel. Timelessness, with its two past and future states, has played an important role in introducing new characters in the story, getting to know their past, discovering the nature of relationships between characters, motivating the novel's events, and motivating the reader to follow future events. The category of continuity of time in various forms such as delay, omission, summary, and theatrical scene has also been effective in accelerating and slowing down events as well as expressing the ideology of the novel's characters. Single-axis frequency also has a high prevalence in this story compared to other types of frequencies.

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Article Title [العربیة]

قراءة فی البنیة الزمنیة فی روایة "الجنیة" لغازی القصیبی (بناء على نظریة الزمن لجیرار جینیت)

Abstract [العربیة]

إن الزمان فی السرد هو أحد المکونات الأساسیة غیر القابلة للفصل، والذی یتقدم وفقًا له خط سیر الروایة. من خلال تجسید الزمن فی القصة، یمکن تحقیق فهم أفضل لبنیة الزمن وأهمیته فی الروایات القصصیة. فی العقود الأخیرة، جذب هذا الموضوع انتباه العدید من الباحثین، ومن بینهم جیرار جنیت، الناقد البنیوی الفرنسی. حیث یمیز بین زمن النص وزمن القصة، ویقسمه إلى ثلاثة مکونات: النظام، الاستمراریة، والتکرار. تتناول هذه الدراسة، وبأسلوب وصفی وتحلیلی، نقد ومراجعة مکونات الزمنیة السردیة فی روایة "الجنیة" لغازی القصیبی استنادًا إلى نظریة جیرار جنیت. من بین أهم النتائج التی توصلت إلیها هذه الدراسة، یمکن الإشارة إلى أن غازی القصیبی قد تمکن من خلق قصة متعددة الطبقات وبمواضیع غیر مسبوقة من خلال وضع بنیة السرد فی إطار غیر خطی واستخدام تقنیات مثل الترتیب، والاستمراریة، والتکرار. لقد لعبت هذه التقنیات أدوارًا رئیسیة فی تشکیل هیکل الروایة.کما أن تعبیر الزمن من خلال حالتی النظر إلى الماضی والمستقبل کان له أهمیة کبیرة فی تقدیم شخصیات جدیدة، والتعرف على خلفیاتهم، واکتشاف طبیعة تفاعلات الشخصیات، وتحریک مجریات الأحداث فی القصة، مما یحفز القارئ على متابعة التطورات المقبلة. أیضًا، فإن مفهوم استمراریة الزمن یتجلى بطرق متنوعة، بما فی ذلک التوقف، والحذف، والملخص، والمشاهد الدرامیة، مما أثر على تسریع أو تباطؤ وتیرة الأحداث وتجسید أیدیولوجیات الشخصیات.وعلاوة على ذلک، یتمتع التکرار الأحادی فی هذه القصة بانتشار عالٍ مقارنة بأنواع التکرار الأخرى، مما یدل على التنوع السردی وعمق المعنى فی العمل.

Keywords [العربیة]

  • الروایة المعاصرة
  • علم السرد
  • نظریة الزمن السردی
  • جیرار جنیت
  • غازی القصیبی
  • روایة الجنیة

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  • Receive Date: 09 March 2025
  • Revise Date: 30 April 2025
  • Accept Date: 05 May 2025
  • First Publish Date: 04 June 2025
  • Publish Date: 10 June 2025

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