Manifestations of Opposing Dualities in Muhannad Al-Azab's Very Short Stories
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https://doi.org/10.59759/art.v5i1.1514Keywords:
Antithetical Binaries, Muhannad Al-Azab, The Very Short Story, Semiological School.Abstract
The study explores the use of “binary oppositions” in the three short story collections by the Jordanian writer Muhannad Al-Azab (Ruo’a al-Khuffash “Bat’s Visions,” Solo, and Arwah Mashroukha “Fractured Souls”). These collections are notably rich in displaced binaries that acquire diverse meanings, reflecting the author’s vision and philosophical perception of the world, humanity, and life.
The stories highlight the dialectical process of perceiving things through their opposites, as these binaries take on multiple artistic and symbolic forms, such as: “The Title as an Artistic Threshold toward Human Depth,” “The Blind as a Seer,” “The Bat’s Insight,” “Luminous Darkness,” and “Exposure before the Mirror.”
These manifestations convey the narratives in an intense and unconventional manner, as Al-Azab redefines the nature of these opposites to generate new meanings through rhetorical finesse, semantic density, and linguistic economy, emphasizing the human
need for inner vision and spiritual insight. The study chose to rely on the tenets of the semiological school.
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