Poetics of Hunger Speech in Narration, Texts: Bare Bread and Hunger: As Examples

Abstract

The structure of the literary text has internal laws that regulate the movement of the relationships involved, and those laws are what make the creative text an aesthetic text of artistic value. Studying these laws and highlighting their characteristics is marked by poetry. Poetry, in its simplest definition, is the systematic study of literature as literature. It addresses the issue of what is literature? What are the possible and developed issues? What is the format of a special art or a special language for a writer? How does a story form? What are the special aspects of the effects of literature? How is it composed? How are literary phenomena organized within texts? Through this study, we aim to explore the semantic and aesthetic components of the narrative texts, as well as the characteristics of the hunger discourse in Muhammad Shukri, Muhammad Al-Bassati and Knut Hamsun, and to highlight their literary nature. We will try to approach the texts from the angle of formal poetics, by adopting the purposeful approach that was laid down by Boris Tomashevsky. We will also seek, through this study, to answer the following questions: What is poetics? How do the three writers define and challenge the limits of the discourse of hunger in their texts? How did they manage to write about this subject in a distinct literary way? And to what extent were their texts able to accommodate the various forms of hunger discourse? How does the discourse of hunger work within their texts?

Keywords: Poetics, the purposeful approach, the discourse of hunger, Muhammad Shukri, Muhammad Al-Bassati, Knut Hamsun.