The Human-Place Duality in Arabic Narrative A Thematic Aesthetic Reading

Abstract

follows the concepts of the structural-formative method as an approach that links the inside and outside of the text. This approach benefits from new critical approaches that have penetrated the cultural, social, ideological, and cultural components that produced this space, transforming it into a vast horizon that we refer to as "space." This is because it extends across vast horizons, making it a vehicle for much knowledge. We have adopted the spectral reading, which makes the place/space the starting point for interpretation and analysis, i.e., the zone or center of radiation that imparts its dimensions to include many knowledge fields, pouring them into the sea of literary art. Therefore,we sought to define the features of this reading with a set of elements, starting with the intention of the expressive vision of the specificity of place, which gives the analysis a descriptive-analytical vision. This makes the place a pulsating sense and a living soul within a structure based on artistic and aesthetic formation. Then, its comprehensiveness, with the breadth of relationships that link man/universe/life, a relationship of existence, belonging, and identity, as well as place and collective consciousness, which is a link between place and people in their awareness and feeling of it, and place/body, place/homeland, place/creative writing act, and place/existence/identity/belonging. All these dualities explode from a central axis to open up a wider field for spectral reading at higher levels of consciousness and perception, to a vision of the world that carries an expressive vision that goes beyond the geographical framework of the place, to give it a solid relationship in which meaning is more closely linked to the place and its connotations to extract from it the semantic loads that form the duality on which we based this approach: man/place.