Common Motives between the Fables of Aesopus and Phaedrus in the Concept of Narrative Motives Framework

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Faculty of Arts - Cairo University

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According to Russian critic Tomashevsky, every narrative text has a group of narrative phrases (segments - sequences) that serve as the text's body and narrative structure. These sentences comprise intentional units from which reasons for clarifying and sequencing the narrative events of any literary writing are derived. In this regard, Tomaszewski clarified when he discussed the concept of narrative motivation, stating that no literary piece is free of common narrative motivations that play a significant part in constructing the narrative body of the poetic and prose text. Common incentives are essential for bringing narrative events forward. It tracks the progression of events via reason and time. As a result, this study examines, using a comparative and formal method, the essential shared reasons that comprise the narrative body of six Greek prose tales by Aesopus and their equivalent poetry Latin tales by Phaedrus. The goal is to show how Aesopus and Phaedrus use narrative incentives to highlight aesthetic aspects in both prose and poetic styles, as well as the degree of difference and similarity between Greek prose and poetic Latin wording in light of Tomashevsky's concept of narrative motivations.

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