The study of time element in Maghamate Lozumiyeh by Abu Taher Serghesti according to Gerard Genette

Abstract

    Maghamate Lozumiyeh by Abu Taher Serghesti is one of the most important literary sources of Andalusia literature and time element is one of the most striking elements that is revealed in these Maghamat. Therefore, this element is significant due to an important role in narrated works in revealing the meaning. That is why it has attracted many critics and researchers’ attention. Hence, the basic issue in narrated context, is the time problem. Gérard Genette’s research is one of the most important scientific projects in this field that distinguished in three dimensions between time of the story and the anecdote and they are: order, continuity and sequence. The author relying on the analytical method and with regard to Genette and his followers’ scheme has analyzed time element in these Maghamat. From the results of this article we can conclude that in most of Maghamate Lozumiyeh, order links have got schematic balance in a way that the incidents are compatible with reality temporally. As Maghamat’s incidents are not repeated because of framework’s limitations and the article text size and the narrator has replaced some other expressions instead. However, comparing to continual links, Maghamat are full of two techniques of Liberating and scenery.