Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 13، number In Volume 3، June 2020 ، issue Number 49

A study of Narrative Personal Style in Reza Amirkhani's Bioten and Ala Alaswani's Yaghoubian Mansion

Mahdi Esmaeili , Abdol Ali Alebooye langroodi (Author in Charge), Narjes Ansari

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: narration is the most fundamental element of the story. Narrative is the method and technique by which the story is narrated by the author. Narrative structure in stories determines the artistic value of the story and to investigate this criterion, it is necessary to examine the narrative style of the stories separately or comparatively. The main purpose of this study is to investigate to the personal narrative style in Reza Amirkhani and Alaswani"s novels.

METHODOLOGY: the research has been conducted in a library method and the study area are novels “Bioten” and “Yaghoubian Mansion”.

FINDINGS: the personal narrative style of these two writers is largely similar. In processing the suspense of the story, both authors have used a suspense method called short jump to create interest in the audience. Aswani and Amirkhani"s stylistic techniques are in these two novels suspense of Anachronism and time elimination, descriptive pause, short connection and focal method.

CONCLUSION: Aswani and Amirkhani interrupt the narrative and start another narrative at the moment when something critical happens in the lives of the characters and the reader is waiting to see the consequences. From the perspective of processing the plot, we also see a kind of action system. The expression of why and cause-effect relationships in two novels has led to a greater connection between the elements of the text and the stronger plot. The narrative structure of the story in both novels is circular, nonlinear and lacks proper order and sequence, which leads to Anachronism. The use of time summaries in both works has caused the frequency and terseness of the two components. Aswani and Amirkhani show different perspectives about their beliefs by the technique of internal focusing, hiding behind their characters or putting other characters in the story together.

Keyword
Narrative discourse analysis , Personal style of Narration , Bioten , Reza Amirkhani , the Yacoubian building , Alaa Al Aswany

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