Vision and Tool

The aim of this book is to enhance ways to study literary text as a fabric. So we contemplate its vertical structure, and the semantic circles behind this structure, which intersect with it, and we examine its stylistic signals and the suggestions and connotations they convey. This is a complete process, which does not stop - of course - at both the vertical or the horizontal, but rather studies the texture of the text and its seams in a comprehensive manner, in its conciseness. The cultural and social dimensions that the text contains are understood from the text's codes, and are illuminated by the critic's analysis. This strategy rereads the text as a single unit, away from readings that carefully display the aesthetics of the form, or readings that stop at its intellectual propositions, and the critical pen may get carried away and the text carries unbearable insights. The researcher saw that the two schools of hermeneutics (the science of interpretation) and semiotics (the science of signs) were two basic approaches that he adopted in his readings. This does not mean that he will limit himself to these two approaches only, but rather he seeks to benefit from other critical approaches such as structuralism, stylistics, narrative, and cultural and social criticism. And others, and this is what the reader feels in the book's sections: theory and practice.