Narrative Poetics in the Traditional Tale The Tale of Muawiyah and the Penguin as a Model

Abstract

The Poetics of the narrative in traditional tales, which this study attempts to present, is concerned with traditional narrative texts, the extent to which the narrative tools are available and illustrate hidden beauties in them based on a study of the poetics of discourse and the poetics of narrative. It is what our reading of a narrative text by the historian Ali Al-Masoudi has led us to. The text has a narrative style that shows the author's mastery of the art of narration. He is capable of depicting to us the outline of the events, the characters, and the time and place, based on his own vision, even though the tale appeared three centuries earlier.

 The question of the study is: has the traditional tale been able to give the reader a complete narrative with all the elements of narrative construction: the events, characters, and time and place? This is the question that the study attempts to answer through the internal analysis of the poetics of discourse and the poetics of narrative, and the dimensions and meanings that follow.