أثر الخطاب الديني في روايات أيمن العتوم

The Impact of Religious Discourse in Novels by Ayman Al-Atoum

Abstract
Religious discourse holds a special Importance due to its intensive use in modern Arabic novels; as It presents the intellectual framework of Arab society In general. Religious discourse is a part of the society’s identity, a link connecting the Arab individual to his past and present, shaping a part of his future. This study examines the forms of employing religious discourse in the novels of the writer Ayman Al-Atoum, because his novels represent a modern Arab model where religious discourses vary and are shaped according to the writer’s ideology and perspective on different statements, stories, and ideas. Religious discourse Is manifested through intertextuality with various religious references. After presenting the key terms and concepts on whichh the study is based, several forms of employing religious discourse through Intertextuality were identified. This employment can be direct, relying on Invoking explicit words as In intertextuality of thresholds, or textual Intertextuality of different religious references. It can also be Indirect intertextuality, where religious discourse Is manifested through ideas or style, branching out to Intertextuality of a single statement or word And it reaches the employment of the complete story, scattered in fragments In various books and diverse religious references. Religious discourse is not only related to verbal Intertextuality, but also to the techniques used by the writer such as time, narrative cutting method, and the presence of the narrator in It, as well as the degree of foreshadowing within the narrative text and Its correlation with relIgious characters. In addition, studying the formation of those characters, their evolutionary transformations, and their movements in multiple levels that align with the plot and its developments. This study focused on the aesthetic aspects of these employments, their Impact on the narrative text, and the effectiveness resulting from the text’s openness to new interpretations with different meanings than the apparent purposes..