Architecture of Narrative Writing in Saudi Novels

Literature and Criticism

Abstract

Via a systematic and architectural narrative vision through which the narrative movement is trace, this research is about architecture of Saudi novels, denoting contextual patterns from the first threshold (title), symbols, signs, and icons, from the preface and chapters to the distribution of the black ink and areas, to the architecture of horizontal and vertical writing, and punctuation and pauses as well as the elements of advertising, presentation, and focalization. Saudi novels are classified into tense narrative architecture, empirical narrative architecture, and artistic narrative architecture.

Keywords: novel, Saudi Arabia, narration, architecture, writing, focalization