Abstract

This paper explores the artistic structures, aesthetics, and thematics in the literary works of Ihsan Abd Al-Quduos (the Arab writer) and D. H. Lawrence (the English writer) in terms of the narrative style, language, dialogue, settings, and characters through a textual analysis in the light of the premises of the narrative aesthetics, comparative assumptions and aesthetic intertextualities. Comparatively, the paper sheds light on the aspects of artistic aesthetics of structure and style between the two writers, basically the treatment of women, clarifying their narrative experiences. Therefore, this paper adopts the descriptive and analytical critical theory to explore similarities and dissimilarities in the aesthetics, style, and language of both writers' selected texts. The results of this paper textually reveal both authors' awareness of the nature of the fictional discourse as linguistic creativity and special artistic composition. Also, both novelists show some similarities and differences in narrative content, style, structure and themes, each according to his realistic experience as a result of the relationship with the surrounding environment and the cultural background. So, the two writers are very careful with all their art and creativity to endow their novels with aesthetics of expression and their structural and semantic spaces. The paper explores such issues in their selected narratives, which include Ihsan's Sleepless, The Dead End, A Nose and three Eyes, and Don't Turn off the Sun. Lawrence's novels include Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Lost Girl, Aaron's Rod, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Highlights

  • Narrative Style and Language Style means the method chosen by the novelist to communicate his thoughts and feelings to the reader through creating his characters, scenes and environment, which result in a mural that brings the idea closer to the reader's mind and heart

  • This research explored the stylistic aesthetics of Ihsan and Lawrence's novels that include linguistic structure, as language is a major element in constructing the narrative discourse and a prominent feature that contributes to the construction of the link with other components of the artistic construction of the narratives

  • The paper examined the narrative language and its artistic roles in the patterns of novels' linguistic structure- Such patterns, which contribute to constructing the narrative internal structures, namely: the language of narration, the language of dialogue, and the language of textual interaction

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Summary

Introduction

The Arab novelist Ihsan and the English novelist Lawrence are brilliant novelists in the modern world Their novels have distinct technical features and show analogies in the narrative temporal scene and other technical styles. This paper explores these characteristics in the selected narratives, for they represent many realistic themes in Egyptian and English societies. Both novelists have a special way of writing in exposing themes of love and the relationship between women and men. The narrative character is not a mere element of fiction structure, but it is primarily the backbone upon which all other constructive elements are based Both novelists never show doctrinal and religious fanaticism; they have a non-religious secular Freudian doctrine. They adhere to objective, realistic descriptions, for their novels reflect human reality and psychological and technical reliability

Hereafer referred to as Ihasan 2 Hereafetr referred to as Lawrence
Narration
Dialogue
The Internal Dialogue as a Monologue
External Dialogue
Setting of Place and Time
Characters
The Static Flat Characters
Conclusion
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