Time Construction in Labyrinths World: Burhan Shawi the novelist
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The modern Iraqi novel relies on the experimental technique of time construction. This type of novel has a remarkable effect on the critics’ points of view and researchers regarding this issue since most of them agree that the time has certain fixed rules though it has got various branches. What can be observed in Burhan shawi,s Labyrinths, points out that he inspired many aspects of time in his novels which can form a comprehensive identification of human life shift since its creation up to now. Though it represents modern occurring, still, it has a deep historical Arab and world in herited property which stands on narrative structure exploitation.
- Time aspect is not fixed. It is always changing and more able. It goes with the design of its Novel world and its own view towards the surrounding world.
- this can give rise to mane questions that we attempt to answer as:
.To what extent time can play a role in the Iraq and Arab novels?
.How time element is to be structural in Labyrinths? As the Novel structure plays a fundamental role within the other factors in the world Novel structure and gives it its distinctive ness feature.
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