A narrative-semiotic analysis of james joyce short story araby : inferences for efl classroom

Abstract EN

This study will look at the ways short story as genre is favourable for EFL literature classroom at the Algerian university, most importantly at the age of self-exile phenomenon.

Through James Joyce's short story Araby, the study will undertake a literary analysis at the macro and micro levels.

At the macro level, the researcher chooses Genette's narratological approach to analyse the self-exile/displacement experience.

At the micro level, the researcher undertakes the figurative, thematic, and axiological oppositional structures suggested by Greimas in his semiotic approach to discuss reality/illusion, home/self-exile, and sight/ blindness generative oppositions.

Findings show that the narration scheme and the semiotic structure of the text contribute to set a mood for the story that makes it promotable in an EFL atmosphere.