Narrative Discursive Patterns in the Novelistic Discourse Ahmed Al- Milwani as a Model

Abstract

The research addressed the narrative discourse patterns in the novels of Ahmed El-Malwani (1980), the Egyptian playwright and novelist. The research addressed narrative patterns with regard to the position of the narrator, in which he demonstrated the narration in the third person, or what is called the omniscient narrator. It also diversified the narrative pronouns between the narrator, the witness, or the participant. Narrative patterns in discourse ranged between direct and indirect style. The most important results reached by the research were: The narrative pattern is a method of narration that relies on a specific methodology for narrating the narrated event. The narrator's position in relation to the characters affects his narrative pattern, as the third person pronoun is paired with the omniscient narrator who sees the events from the background, and therefore, he intervenes by commenting or removing ambiguity about an event. Ahmed El-Malwani resorted to the narrative pattern with the third person pronoun as an omniscient narrator who deals with the characters psychologically, in which he resorted to myth and intertextuality with history. He sought to project onto contemporary reality, taking the human self and the human position in the world as a basis for presenting the narrative approach in his novels. The author's use of varying narrative pronouns was noted, sometimes using the first-person pronoun and other times using the second-person pronoun, in a manner that is in keeping with his position as co-narrator