تشكلات المعنى في السرد تطبيق على قصة " نظرة " ليوسف إدريس

Abstract

The narrative text represents the message and discourse produced by the author under specific cultural, political, intellectual, and social conditions. The reader will receive it under cultural, political, intellectual, and social conditions that are concomitant with, or subsequent to, the conditions of the text and the author.

Meaning is formed in a narrative text before, during, and after writing.

Meaning has multiple forms, but meaning is not uncontrolled; context is its semantic regulator.

Those who think that the narrative or the narrated accomplishes a single meaning are mistaken, as are those who think that meaning is only accomplished after the narrative is complete, or that the narrative restricts meaning to the time of its production only.

Meaning in a narrative is formed before the narrative, within it, and after the narrative is completed. Meaning, in its primary form, is formed before narration. The story is bound by the narration, and the meaning is still embedded in the fabric of perceptions and beliefs. The narrator's perspective and focus on the narrative constitute the primary meaning of the narrative.

The second formation of meaning is what we can term, in principle, the immanent meaning of the narrative. This is a meaning that takes shape at the beginning of the narrative and throughout its progression, cumulatively. It is what builds automatically with the progression of the narrative structure, from the beginning of the narrative until its end.

The third formation of meaning is the meaning carried within the narrative, i.e., the implicit meaning in whose construction cultural systems have played a role.

The fourth formation of meaning is the meaning interpreted by the narrative. This meaning is largely subject to the recipient's ability to detect textual and cultural shifts, and their ability to deconstruct the text and read it differently. Through this paper, we attempt to investigate the formations of meaning in the modern narrative text through application to the story “A Look” by Youssef Idris.