المكان و تشكيل وعي الإنسان في الخطاب الروائي : رواية "أبناء الريح" أنموذجا

الملخص EN

This paper aims at the exploration of f*ace in the novel: "Abna‘ Arreeh by the novelist Laila Al Atrash.

and its role in shaping the awareness of its characters, their behavior, their conscience as well as their social relations.

This exploration is based on the pivotal place setting of the novel, namely a nursing home that the characters were admitted to.

choiceless.

and where they have lived since an early stage of their lives, in addition to the extensions of this place setting to other settings such as the street, markets, the school, home, and entertainment settings.

This is based upon the fact that place isjan essential element in the place narrative, if not the core.

It is rather deemed as its defining identity.

Furthermore, nothing indicates the social dimension of the literary work the way it does.

When a work of fiction lacks place setting, it certainly lacks its characteristic and thus its ingenuity, the paper called for.

prior a reading in the place setting in the abovementioned novel, the presentation of an intensive theoretical framework for the place setting concept and how significant it is for human beings, in addition to positive or negative perceptions it holds in belonging or estrangement as well as its contribution to forming its social identity indeed.