الوصف في رواية قصر على النيل لثروت أباظة

Abstract EN

Description in the novel acts to constitute a new reality in accordance with the laws of literary language not the laws of similarity with the reality.

Thus, description is the process of converting reality to the recipient mind from a materialistic image into a literary one.

And since "A palace on the Nile" novel by the Egyptian author Tharwat Abatha has been characterized by many descriptive texts varied in forms and expressions; this research has been conducted to study it through analyzing the descriptive texts, demonstrating its artistic and aesthetic dimensions as well as revealing the different significations that resulted from.

The research was based on an introduction and three topics.

The introduction has included a definition of the concepts of research title terms.

Topic one has been dedicated to examine (the description restricted by narration) in terms of descriptive narration, oriented description from narration in three types: simple, compound and extensive description.

Topic two has included a study of (the free description) in terms of internal - emotional denotative description, event - initiating description and event - denotative description.

Topic three has been dedicated to examine the (classifying description) and the (enlightening description) in terms of describing the character, the event, the place and the object.