الرمز في قصص (صهيل المجرة في صفحة النهر)‎ لعلي كمال الدين الفهادي

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The significance of this research entitled (The Symbolism in ALFahadi Stories - Saheel Almijarah Fee Safhat Alnahr) lies in the first place in that its author is a native narrator from Mosul.

He is also a university professor specialized in literature and literary criticism.

Furthermore، the language of the series goes more exposition and directness، almost close to poetic style in terms of conciseness، implication and symbolism.

The researcher in this collection finds that the writer has employed the ability of symbolism to express his visions and give them a concrete and vivid form، from which he releases himself from the restrictions of imitation and dullness to the world of creativity seriousness.

He derived his symbols from many references (historical، cultural، folk، mythological، natural and Islamic ones) employing them in accordance with his time and environment.

These symbols mingle with storyline and consequently adding uniqueness vividness، conciseness، and emotiveness beyond difficulty، ramble، prolixity and boredom.

So this researcher attempts to study the symbol through analyzing the narrative texts relying on discoursal approach by taking these contexts clarify the discourse into consideration.

Such a method compares among texts in order to ascertain their artistic properties and nature of their symbols to reveal the significations which lead to the general theme of these stories.

This research consists of an introduction and two topics.

The introduction is dedicated to study nature of symbol and its signification in the series.

As for the second topic، it tackled symbolism and its references in the series.