Rhetoric of Children's Literature in the Saudi Theatrical Text

(The Play (We Are Here) by Fahd Radda Al-Harthi as a Model)

Abstract

The research aimed to clarify the topic: The rhetoric of children's literature in the Saudi theatrical text - the play (We are here) by Fahd Radda Al-Harthi as a model. We discussed the event and the narrative image in its textual and mental context, the theatrical event and the parallel dialogue, the psychological context and the mental context, and the gender context. We also studied the second topic: the image of space, the image of the character, and the first requirement: the dynamics of the image for time and place, and the rhetoric of theatrical narration from characters, scenes and events with the citation of the theatrical text under study. Among the most important results that I reached were: that the structure of the narrative image depends on the event and the parallel dialogue represented by the intervention of the author or narrator from the description of the event or characters and the appearance of them so that it represents a space parallel to the narrative space in the text. The structure of the event in the play (We are here) was characterized by precision and order, so that the subsequent depended on the previous, in a way that combined with the parallel dialogue to summon the recipient and ensure his interaction. The play relied on two contexts: mental and psychological, so that the event evokes mental images in the recipient, and the psychological context supported it from an analogical perspective that establishes a relationship between two levels: negative and positive; to deepen the impact of the narrative image in the child's soul and mind. The space-time in the play was characterized by the process and transformation in a way that was characterized by a dynamic, changing feature that contained the event and the character, which allowed the recipient to recall the mental images evoked by the event, with multiple temporal techniques, such as anticipation and flashback, and then the rhetoric of the narrative came to organize the space-time axis in the text. The author relied on mixing the facts of the play and its events, and the external and internal features of the characters with a focus on the psychological features of the character.