The Effectiveness of Thresholds in Reading the Fictional Text: Ali Aqla Ersan’s The Golan Rock as an Example
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Modern theories have given the visual aspect a role no less important than the mental aspect, and the latter is no longer the crucial reading reference in determining the fate of reading. The textual thresholds that cover the text and envelop it in a network of signs are among the important topics that visual reading pays great attention to, as there is no way to perceive the text and inspect its core and freely enter its space except by investigating the work of these guides and their intentions, and transferring their underlying aesthetics to the surface of the scene.
By textual thresholds, we mean the textual attachments surrounding the text, which are essential procedural keys that the researcher uses to explore the depths of the text in order to interrogate and interpret them, i.e., the entries that permeate, complement and complete the body of the text. They are necessary elements in the formation of the sign, the deconstruction of symbolic functions, and the clarification of the outside in order to illuminate the inside. Hence, they are elements directed to the reader in his reading of the text that give him the main step and put him on the correct path in reading.
From this standpoint, our study tries to stop at the textual thresholds in the novel The Rock of the Golan by Ali Aqla Arsan, which is one of the novels whose thresholds carry important intentions that revolve in the space of the narrative text.
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