Abstract:
In this article, a brief overview of the history of rhetorical narratology is presented, and important terms such as implicit author, types of audiences, unreliable narrator, tension, instability, etc., are defined from the perspective of three generations of rhetorical theorists. Then, the short story "The Tree" by Goli Taraghi from the collection "I Too Am Che Guevara" is reread and interpreted. The main theme of the story is the cycle of abuse in which each character is involved in some way. Different groups of audiences have specific perspectives on these characters and empathize with some of them. The main goal is to examine the differences in reading and how the plot expands from the perspective of different audiences. The theme of "The Tree: Immortality and Decay" forms the foundation of the story, and by placing the characters in various permutations, different readings become possible.
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Analysis of the Short Story "The Tree" by Goli Taraghi From the Perspective of Rhetorical Narratology Mohammad Ragheb Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University / (Pp. 113-132) Date Received: 2013/01/10, Date Accepted: 2014/09/22 Abstract In this article, a brief overview of the history of rhetorical narratology is presented first, and important terms such as implicit author, types of audiences, unreliable narrator, tension, instability, etc.
ir An Introduction to Rhetorical Narratology Narratology and Narrative Theory are similar terms, but some individuals distinguish between the two; the former is called classical or, in other words, “structuralist” (Filan & Rabinowitz, 2005: 1) and includes the views of theorists such as Tzvetan Todorov, Roland Barthes, Julien Greimas, Gérard Genette, Franz Stanzel, Miki Bal, Seymour Chatman, Gerald Prince, and Susan Lanser, while the latter is called “post-classical narratologies”1 which has various branches and sub-branches2 (Fludernik, 2005: 36-37).
Filan (Ibid: 11) provides a simpler definition of the concept of the unreliable narrator that does not have the difficulties of defining it based on Wayne Booth’s implicit author.
Analysis of the story “The Tree” Now, as an example, by integrating the views of Rabinowitz and Filan on the unreliable narrator and the position of audiences – which itself is a half-look at Wayne Booth’s concept of the implicit author – we will examine the short story “The Tree” from the collection I Too Am Pleasant, by Goli Taraghi.
To put it simply, the narrator has a similar view of his mother and wife; thus, the differences in empathy among various audiences create the second tension in the story.
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