A master's thesis at the University of Basra discusses (investigating narration techniques in two short stories by the English writer Katherine Mansfield according to the Seymour Chatman model: a stylistic-narrative study)
Master's thesis in the Department of English Language \ College of Education for Humanities \ University of Basra - Investigating narration techniques in two short stories by the English writer Katherine Mansfield according to the Seymour Chatman model: a stylistic study - narrative - by the student (Adean Falah Hassan) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. (Majeed Hamid Jassim)
The study dealt with a clear and detailed analysis of the narration model adopted in each story according to the plot of each platform. In addition, tables and illustrative figures were presented based on mathematical data. This study includes qualitative and quantitative analyzes to achieve its objectives and verify its hypotheses.
The dissertation included a stylistic-narrative study based on Chatman's (1978) model "the structure of storytelling and discourse in novel and cinema", which is applied to the English writer Catherine Mansfield's stories "The Doll's House" and "The Canary" to demonstrate the narration techniques used by the writer in the two aforementioned stories.
This study was devoted to presenting a clear and detailed analysis of the narration model adopted in each story, according to the plot of each. In addition, comprehensive tables and illustrations were presented based on mathematical data. This study includes qualitative and quantitative analyses, to achieve its objectives and verify its hypotheses.
The study consists of six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction that includes the objectives of the study, its hypotheses, procedures, limitations, difficulties, and the importance of the study. The second chapter deals with the theoretical part, while the third and fourth chapters constituted the practical part of the study, in which the anecdotal texts are analyzed. The fifth chapter deals with a comparison between the narration techniques in the two stories and the results that were calculated and percentages for them, which were confirmed through a detailed explanation of these results and supported statistically.
The thesis concluded that Chatman's model of narrative structure is suitable for analyzing Mansfield's short stories "A Doll's House" and "The Canary" in order to shed light on the literary techniques of narration, and that narration techniques such as plot, description, general atmosphere and point of view were identified in the two short stories.
