Journal of Literary Criticism

Journal of Literary Criticism

A Narratological Reading of Space in Akbar Radi’s Works: Selected Plays

Authors
Parastoo Mohebbi 1
Hassan Barzegar 2
Parastoo Mohebbi 3
1 Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Faculty of Architecture and Art,Tehran, Iran
3 Faculty of Architecture and Art, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In the series of narratological studies, Marie-Laure Ryan has presented a more comprehensive categorization. She described four categories of narrative space, the spatial extension of the text, the space that serves as container for the text and the spatial form of the text for the study of space in narrative.
Applying Ryan’s terminology, the present paper has adopted a descriptive-analytical approach to study Ryan’s categorization of space in Radi’s plays. The study of spatial frames and their relations to setting and story space in the selected corpus of Radi’s works indicates a particular type of continuity between the spatial frame and the off-frame space in such a way that his spatial frame does not separate the stage from its surrounding world; quite the contrary, it frames a part of the narrative universe. The characters, objects, dialogues, voices, and visual signs constantly put the visible spatial frame in interaction or in contrast with invisible narrative world. The frame of the stage that often acts as a fence against its surrounding world breaks down by the end of the play to let the chaos of the narrative world penetrate into the stage frame.
Keywords
Space
Narratology
Akbar Radi
Narrative Space
Dramatic Space
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Journal of Literary Criticism
Volume 2, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
September 2018
Pages 113-91

  • Receive Date 31 January 2018
  • Revise Date 04 June 2018
  • Accept Date 02 September 2018