Images of intertextuality in the novel “The Waste Paradise” by the writer Laila Al-Juhani - an applied structural study

Abstract

Intertextuality is one of the terms of the structuralism, which indicates the nature of texts, and also refers to the culture of the writer, and enriches the semantic value of the language in the new text and its narrative frameworks, especially in the art of the novel, which extends in its temporal and spatial horizon and the number of pages over a long period, so intertextuality becomes more present. It is clear to both the educated reader and the researcher.

Hence this study that explains the forms of intertextuality in the novel “The Waste Paradise” by the Saudi writer Laila Al-Juhani, as her novel has a vast narrative space, containing different types of intertextuality in particular, that are in harmony with the story of the novel and its events on the one hand, and develop semantic depth, or It conveys it in a highly artistic and beautiful way on the other hand, and demonstrates the extension of some meanings historically on the third hand, and explains some human events on the fourth hand.

The most common types of intertextuality in the novel “The Waste Paradise” are: historical intertextuality, literary intertextuality, religious intertextuality, and artistic intertextuality. The study was keen to include the original text from which the author quoted the texts of her novel in a clear manner in the text, and by extracting each text in a systematic and transparent manner in the footnotes as well. In order to ensure scientific accuracy and credibility in the research, the study ultimately concluded with many results of great importance, which the study summarized at the end of the research through a separate section, including but not limited to: The writer employs religious intertextuality, calling for ideals and values that are absent from human reality. Contemporary on the one hand, and you made the narrative more realistic and depictive of life on the other hand.