Event Construction Patterns in Contemporary Iraqi Biography
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.16.57.3.5Keywords:
System, Narrative Structure, Time, Narrative Charter, Sequence, Inclusion, Iraqi BiographyAbstract
This study aims to examine the structural patterns of events in autobiographical texts, as a modern literary genre that has its literary status among narrative arts; as it is based in essence on awakening broad horizons of systematic thinking by linking personal past experiences with literature, as this art is based on the overlap in its narrative structure on a group of intertwined relationships between multiple types of literary arts and their representations at the same time. The study of the patterns of constructing events in contemporary Iraqi texts by Iraqi writers who recorded their lives, memories and personal experiences as (autobiography) comes due to its importance and its need for examination, treatment and an attempt to shed more light on this narrative genre; as it has rarely been subjected to research, discovery and critical examination, in order to identify the mechanism of the flow of events in it and to reveal the types of patterns on which Iraqi literature built its biography.
For this reason, this mechanism that reveals these structures was chosen due to its revealing power about the aesthetic vision and creative characteristic that the text enjoys. The research came in axes represented by the types of subjective systems of the event from which the Iraqi autobiography was formed and the ability of Iraqi literature to diversify in presenting events.
The research revealed those systems, which are (the sequence system, the overlap system, the inclusion system, the alternation system, and the circular system). It was preceded by an introduction that reveals the basic foundations in constructing the event and its importance in the autobiographical text.
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