نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
Time structure has been one of the most important topics in narrative discourse according to researchers. Gérard Genette, the French structuralist, introduces the concept of narrative time in three aspects: order, duration, and frequency by differentiating between the story time and the text time which affects the impact and attraction of the text as he believes. The objective of this article is to examine the time structure in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns based on Gérard Genette’s narrative theory, aiming to gain better insights into the narrative elements of this novel. In this descriptive-analytical study, we found that Khaled Hosseini delves into character and event introductions through both internal and external retrospection. The leap into the future occurs only when the narrator intends to reveal the characters’ destinies through mental conflict and foresight. The author employs all four modes of duration. Due to the long story time, the author
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