Abdulrahman K. Al-Melhem
Associate Professor of Literature and Criticism, Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Issue: 35 | Pages: 13-29 | June 2025 | https://doi.org/10.54940/ll37969908 | PDF
Received: 25/12/2022 | Revised: 10/02/2023 | Accepted:-09/04/2023
Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Abstract
Textual thresholds have been of great importance in modern critical studies, and have become one of the semiotic guides that provide the reader with a set of signs and indications to understand the meaning and purposes of the text, and thus open horizons for scholars and allow them to enter the depths of the text and decipher many of its codes. This study aims to investigate the textual thresholds in the novel (The Bath Ring) by Rajaa Alem, which gave the reader a literary touch in order to penetrate into the text with all its meanings and explore its semantic secrets. These thresholds came as a reflective mirror of the text. This study concluded a number of points, the most important of which are: The textual thresholds in the novel (The Pigeon Collar) constitute an aesthetic discourse whose functions are no less than that of the text. The text into it, and thus the text becomes an extension of its thresholds. Thus, it is an initial procedural key to a gradual penetration into the worlds of the text. The relationship of the textual thresholds of the novel (The Bath Ring) has emerged, starting with the cover, and the title... with the body.
Keywords
Textual thresholds, Parallel text, Title, Novel, Pigeon collar.
How to Cite
Al-Melhem, A. Textual thresholds in the novel (The Pigeon Collar) by Raja Alem. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature. 2025 June; (35): 13-29. https://doi.org/10.54940/ll37969908
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1658-8126/© 2025-by the Authors. Published by-J. Umm Al-Qura Univ. Lang. Sci. and Lit.-This is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of thehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/-