The center of narration of the story of Adam and Eve (PBUH) based on Gerard Genet's point of view
Subject Areas : Fiction (with literary and artistic features)
Zeinab Kazempoor
1
,
Shahrokh Hekmat
2
*
,
Majid Azizi
3
1 - PhD student of Persian language and literature, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak , Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak , Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.
Keywords: Narrative center, Grammatical tense, Aspect, Gerard Genet, Adam and Eve story.,
Abstract :
Narrative is one of the common concepts in literary criticism, and narratology is one of the new approaches derived from linguistics that examines the techniques and structure of narratives, and many narratologists have presented theories in this field. Gérard Genet, a French structuralist, was one of these narratologists who proposed the theory of narrative focus. In this theory, the category of grammatical time (order, continuity, frequency); Aspect (distance and focalization) and tone or voice (narrator) were considered as the most important aspects of the narrative structure. Among the different stories of the Qur'an, the story of Adam (PBUH) can be analyzed according to this theory. In this research, the story of Prophet Adam (PBUH) as an example of Quranic stories and also as a literary text that includes narrative elements, is examined from the point of view of Gérard Genet's theory. The present essay was done in a descriptive-analytical way and based on Genette's theory of narratology and the results show that in this story, order, continuity and frequency in grammatical time, distance and focalization in the face of the story and the narrator in the tone of all to advance high goals. And the transcendence of the Qur'an, which is actually the guidance and training of humans, has taken place.