lorestan university , elyasi.h@lu.ac.ir
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Bremond, who derived the primary foundations of the unique methodology in studying narrative discourse from Greimas and Propp's analytical framework in his approach to narrative texts, focuses in his approach on events and characters and begins his treatment of narrative discourse from the perspective of events and characters, where he studies and analyzes narrative structures and focuses on events and the role of characters in them from a basic starting point that he calls succession or overlay, which refers to the accumulation of multiple and diverse events between which there is a causal relationship. Characters have a great contribution to the emergence of events, the growth of the novel, and the emergence of interconnected events. Raymond calls them narrative sequences and studies them as a basic building block for building the narrative structure. This research paper aims to study the novel The Palm Tree and the Sultan of the City by Ezz El-Din Jalawji according to the descriptive and analytical approach, relying on Bremond's methodology in reading narrative texts.. The study concluded after his journey that the text is full of successive interconnected events governed by the causal relationship and the text in its narration of the subject of Arab authenticity and adherence to it and the phenomenon of Westernization as a methodological plan in Western political discourse to impose hegemony over other peoples, begins with a state of equilibrium and stability represented by the presence of the Sheikh and his call to adhere to the sacred palm tree, then passes through a stage of instability after the event of the Sheikh’s departure, where a state of instability prevails as a result of the practices of the Sheikh’s son, who represents the model of the Westernized Arab person who rejects the authentic Arab authenticity, and in the end the novel reaches a stage of calm and stability after the overthrow of the Sultan’s rule as a result of the revolutionary awareness-raising practices carried out by Al-Nakhli in his confrontation with the Sultan.
Keywords: Narrative study, Bremon, narrative sequences, Ezzedine Jalawji, The Palm Tree and the Sultan of the City novel
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