An Analytical study of Narration Tempo in Gharibe dar Shahr by Gholam-Hossein Saedi Based Gerard Genette’s Narratology

Subject Areas : journal of literary criticism and stylistics research

Seddigheh Kobra Sadaghiani ¹ , Hamidreza Farzi ² , Naser Dashtpeyma ³

1 - .PhD student of Persian language and literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. (Responsible author)
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

Received: 2022-07-27 Accepted : 2022-07-27 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Narration, Gerard Genette, Gholam-Hossein Saedi, Gharibe dar Shahr, Tempo,

Abstract :

                An effective element of narration structure is “time”. In most of the cases, narration time is against the real time. A narrative discourse is characterized by the time as a principle and typical representation of events of the story. Gerard Genette, the French structuralist theorist, provides the most comprehensive discussions about time components and the effective factors on narration tempo. Accordingly, the current study applied Genette’s theory to study the concept of time and the factors effective on acceleration or deacceleration of tempo narration in Saedi’s Gharibe dar Shahr adopting a descriptive-analytical approach. Results indicated that the volume of text against the time of event, and the use of more deaccelerating elements in narration in different parts of Gharibe dar Shahr resulted in a negative acceleration of the story and slowed its tempo.