Rhetorical Structure of English and Arabic Narrative Text: A Theoretical-cum-Empirical Study

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The study invests in macro-rhetorical structures in reading the Arabic and English narrative text. For this purpose, the study presents a theoretical framework, which unfolds the possibility of the art of rhetoric in reading the Arabic text in general, and the art of fiction in particular. The study, in three axes, demonstrates the ways to rely on the structure of repetition in displaying the aesthetics of the narrative text. The first axis addresses the Arabic texts from two perspectives: repetition with analogy, and repetition with difference. The second axis tackles the English text from two perspectives: repetition with analogy, and repetition with difference. The last axis, “Repetition with Intertextuality”, locates inter-textual relationships of Arabic and English texts alike in One Thousand and One Night

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  • Receive Date: 21 July 2020
  • Revise Date: 14 August 2020
  • Accept Date: 23 September 2020

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