Manifestations of the Symbol in the Contemporary Syrian Short Story

(An analytical study of selected models)

Abstract

This research aims to highlight the symbol technique in the Syrian short story, and to demonstrate the ability of the writer to employ these techniques, and their artistic implications within the fictional work, with mentioning the reasons that prompted the writers to form the symbol in their works in several different places, as some of them formed the symbols starting from the title of the story, Then the events escalated and became tense, and some used partial symbols to form the symbolic structure through phrases and the symbolism of names and some structures, and some of the writers of the magazine benefited from the heritage in forming its symbolic stories.

This symbol appeared clearly in the writers of the contemporary Syrian short story and its employment in many thorny social issues that are difficult to express in words. And applied at the same time, and not just theorizing the symbol only.

The study reached several results, the most important of which are: that the contemporary Syrian short story is rich in the use of artistic phenomena such as intertextuality, humanism, the miraculous, sarcasm, allegory, and the overlapping of literary genres. twenty-first century.