Aesthetics of Textual Space A Reading in Iraqi Theatrical Discourse

Abstract

Abstract:

 The theatrical space plays a very important role in shaping the text space as a whole, with its meanings and connotations, both the transcendent and the implicit, which lie behind the announced, based on the fact that space is the best visible and readable representative. The current study differs from previous studies, which were unique in studying space and reading it in presentation - from the theatrical presentation - as the current study is concerned with studying space in the theatrical text, processing and reading, taking it - that is, space - as a rhetorical writing technique that the author - writer resorts to in creating and conveying the main idea of ​​the text by blending with other written text elements, which stems from the writer's professional ability employed in conveying his ideas by adapting his writing - textual tools derived from his references and philosophical vision of life and lived reality. The researcher dealt in his research with the textual space as a pictorial language that he speaks to his readers, a space as an open language that cannot be confined or abbreviated by a specific reading or connotation, which opens the way for the reader - researcher, to enjoy this reading referential process with what it carries.

he research came in four chapters, the first of which dealt with the methodological framework of the research, the research problem centered around the following question: Is it possible to read space textually? And does it possess aesthetics in this reading process and searching for it - whether it is one space or several spaces - through analysis and reference similar to the theatrical space read incidentally? While its importance was evident in studying space in the text as a creative aesthetic writing technique with what it carries of meanings and connotations, especially in the contemporary Iraqi theatrical text similar to other theatrical text formation elements. While its goal was specific to identifying the concept of space in the theatrical text and what it possesses of aesthetics in the process of searching for it and diagnosing it through reading. As for its borders, they were limited to Iraq / Baghdad: 1994 AD

By studying and reading the aesthetics of space in the text - The Sumerian Nights Show, written by Lutfia Al-Dulaimi and directed by Sami Abdul Hamid. The sample selected intentionally and for the justifications mentioned in the third chapter. As for the second chapter, the researcher stopped at studying the aesthetics of the textual space and then the indicators of the theoretical framework. While the third chapter (procedural) included an analysis and reading of the aesthetics of space in the Sumerian Nights text, the sample selected intentionally, while the fourth chapter concluded with the results and suggestions and a list of sources and references. Among the most important results reached by the researcher:

1. The dramatic space inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh came on the basis of the dramatic place (in the epic - presented in the modern environment) as the prominent tool in shaping the proposed space
2. The reading of the text, its ideas and proposed spaces came as an instant reading through its embodiment reinforced by the heritage vocabulary full of connotations and contents with multiple readings, which gives it aesthetic pleasure during this reading.
3. The researcher found, through reading the space in Al-Dulaimi’s text, that the conflict continues in successive episodes from the pastto the present with all its historical and modern environments.