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Popular Discourse and Implicit Structures Heritage Cultural Productions as an Analytical Model
Full text linkOur study aims to highlight the implicit cultural structures notably present in heritage cultural productions, considered both as a specific discourse and as a form of popular literature manifested through masterful aesthetic techniques. Deeply rooted in cultural anthropology, it attempts to answer questions such as: Why can’t one point at a grave? Why shouldn’t a young girl crunch her bread too much when preparing it? Why is it forbidden to tell stories to children during the day? And why is it prohibited to sweep doorsteps with one’s feet?
Starting from these Socratic questions, our research leads to fundamental sociocultural issues; however, in its quest for meaning, it can only be conducted by thoroughly exploring these cultural holons in their historical existence, their cultural, social, and psychological dimensions, rigorously employing the tools of cultural criticism. Indeed, uncovering implicit cultural patterns within a sui generis discourse requires an exploratory approach comparable to an archaeological dig, due to the complexities and layers that characterize discourses and hinder access to what remains latent within them. Keywords: Folk Monuments, Implicit Scheme, Aesthetic Processes, Cultural Structures, Popular Literatur
A Semio-Rhetorical Study of Visual Mystical Representations Spirituality and Transcendence
Full text linkThis article proposes to examine, from a semiotic perspective, visual representations that address the spiritual and transcendent aspects through figurative images. These images, while recognizable and concrete, present a compelling space for perception and interpretation. However, how does the semiotic approach to the image allow us to understand the mystical dimension in visual representations? Through a corpus of images from diverse cultures, we will attempt to verify that semiotic analysis can reveal the mystical dimension by identifying and deciphering visual codes: iconic, plastic, and linguistic. The objective of this article is to demonstrate the contribution of this approach as a tool for revealing mystical meanings that are not always immediately apparent.
Keywords: Semiotic Approach, Image, Representation, Mysticism, Meaning
For an Enunciative Staging in Pile et face si c’était à refaire je prendrais le même cheminby Abla Guebbas
Full text linkThe enunciative staging in literary works constitutes a central object of analysis for understanding how the various modes of enunciation—encompassing, generic, and scenographic—contribute to the production of meaning and to the reader’s engagement. Situated within the field of literary discourse analysis, this study examines the interactions between the text, its socio-cultural context, and the reader’s interpretive activity. It considers, in particular, the socio-cultural frameworks that shape both the creation and reception of a literary work, the generic conventions that govern its discursive organization, and the textual devices that establish its atmospheric and aesthetic coherence. By articulating these three analytical dimensions, this research seeks to deepen the understanding of the multiplicity of meanings conveyed by literary discourse and their resonance with readers, while emphasizing the distinctive role of enunciative staging in autobio-graphical writing.
Keywords: Staging, Literary Works, Enunciation, Literary Discourse Analysis, Autobiographical Work
Fabricating Time, Inhabiting the Breach Algerian Extreme Contemporary Writing as a Poetics of Utopian Historicity Regimes
Full text link— This article seeks to propose an operative definition of the “extreme contemporary” in Algerian novelistic writing, conceiving it as an narrative response to the presentist crisis—this temporal rupture and double debt theorized by Hartog (2003). Drawing on Ricœur’s hermeneutics, it shows how the novels of Adimi, Daoud, and Benfodil do not thematize the crisis but rather produce, through writing, utopian regimes of historicity. Linked to specific forms of knowledge (epic, mantic, testimonial), these regimes construct scriptural counter-societies and alternative temporalities: a third time of communal foundation, a poetic time of reparative liturgy, and a suspended time of the archaeology of chaos. The study concludes that this narrative fabrication of time dynamically constitutes a literary algerianity, defined as a creative process of inhabiting the rupture.
 
Rethinking University Creative Writing Joint Contributions fromAndragogy Otagogy and Neuroscience
Full text linkThis article examines an innovative pedagogicalexperimentconducted at Batna 2 University within the Text Reading and Study module. The studyanalyzes the effectiveness of a hybridframeworkintegratingandragogy (Knowles), heutagogy (Hase & Kenyon), and cognitive neuroscience. Adopting a qualitative action-research design, the experiment relies on a creativewriting workshop utilizing the Hero’s Journey narrative modeling and prioritizinghandwriting. The direct outcome and tangible result of thisexperimentis the publication of the collective short story collection Éclats d’Âme. Resultsdemonstrate a substantial progression in narrative coherence (from 30% to 85%) and learnerempowermentthrough double-looplearning. The analysisconcludeswith the relevance of “neuro-andragogy” in restoringstudent engagement in the 21st century.
Keywords: Creative Writing, Andragogy, Heutagogy, Cognitive Neuroscience, Action Research
سيميائية الخطاب السياسي في الرواية الجزائرية رواية غدا يوم جديد لعبد الحميد بن هدوقة أنموذجــا
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النص الروائي الجزائري نص خالد فهو النص الذي يقرأ في كل زمان ومكان ، هو النص الذي ينفتح داله على مدلوله ، وتتسع مساحتهما لخلق بؤرة توتر تصدم أفق انتظار الملتقي، وتحمل كثافــة تعبيرية، وحمولة دلالية، فتجعل من القارئ يستمتع، وتحدث داخله لذة وتجعله يتتبعه في كل حين بلهفة وحنين طارحا أسئلة قد لا تجد إجابات شافية تطفئ ظمأه الأدبي، إنه كيان لغوي ودلالي تتفاعل فيه المعـاني والدلالات من خلال بناه المنسجمة والمتسقة ، تتعامد فيه كل الجوانب اللغوية، والفنية والثقافية والاجتماعية والسياسية والأيديولوجية لتكوينه ، من هذا المنطلق تحاول المداخلة قراءة رواية غدا يوم جديد لعبد الحميد بن هدوقة قراءة سيميائية ، فنغوص في عوالمها لاستخراج كل التيمات الدالة على السياسة في خفاءها وتجليها، كسيمياء المضمون الروائي ، وسيمياء العنوان،وسيمياء المكان والزمان، وسيمياء الحدث،وسيمياء الشخوص، وسيمياء الأسماء، ، لنستخلص أن المتلقي حين مباشرته للنص الروائي الجزائري يدخل طرفا معاضدا ، ويشارك في إنتاج الدلالات من خلال فك الرموز ، والشفرات، بما يمتلكه من أدوات و آليات فيفتح دروب التأويل و الفهم.
 
From Revolutionary Memory to Social Urgency The Didactic and Argumentative Turn of The Algerian Youth Novel in the Extreme Contemporary Period Analysis of Awareness and Sensitization Strategies in Salhi Djamel-Eddine’s Novel
Full text linkThe evolution of Algerian literature in French marks a decisive shift from historical themes and memory (Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar) towards direct social intervention against contemporary scourges. This article analyzes Salhi Djemel-Eddine’s youth novel, Le dévouement d’une mère, focused on the consequences of alcoholism and family abuse, as an archetype of this new direction. The study demonstrates that the work synergistically mobilizes the didactic, argumentative, and religious registers to directly engage its young reader. We examine how the formal devices – from direct address (the use of “tu”) to moral argumentation (the condemnation of the “great sin”), via a complete pedagogical engineering (illustrations, footnotes, and post-textual apparatus) – transform the narrative into a tool for awakening and social prevention. The novel thus aligns itself with a literature that prioritizes reader cooperation for immediate civic impact.
 
La fin qui nous attend of Ryad Girod Desacralizing the Writing of the Blacque Decade or When No One Is Innocent
Full text link— This article analyzes Ryad Girod’s novel La fin qui nous attend (2015) as a representative work of Algerian postmodernity. We explore how Girod breaks with the conventions of “emergency literature” by addressing the events of the Black Decade through the lens of a desacralized and reclaimed myth of the Apocalypse. This study examines the scriptural specificities of Girod’s writing, which align it with a unique Algerian postmodernity defined by a rupture with the totalizing discourses of the past whileremaining a powerful tool for contesting Algeria’s socio-political realities.
 
The Language of Theatre and the Question of Identity
Full text linkThis study explores how the debate over Classical Arabic versus colloquial dialect in Egyptian theatre (1923–1952) reflected broader questions of identity, nationalism, and cultural revival. The issue was not merely linguistic, but deeply tied to competing visions of Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic identity. Some saw Classical Arabic as a symbol of heritage and refinement; others viewed colloquial Arabic as a more authentic expression of daily life. A third group proposed a balanced approach based on the theatre play’s context. The findings reveal that language choice in theatre was shaped by political, religious, and social ideologies, and that the debate extended beyond art into struggles over colonial resistance and cultural sovereignty. Ultimately, this controversy helped shape the foundational principles of modern Egyptian theatre
توظيف الحكاية الشعبية في المسرح الجزائري مسرحية كل واحد وحكمه لـعبد القادر ولد عبد الرحمان كاكي أنموذجا
Full text linkتعتبر الحكاية الشعبية والمسرح من أقرب الفنون وأحبّها إلى قلب الإنسان، لذلك حاولت من خلال هذه الورقة البحثية أن أبيّن دور الحكاية الشعبية في المسرح الجزائري من خلال مسرحية "كل واحد وحكمه " لـ " ولد عبد الرحمان كاكي" وذلك بالتعرف على الحكاية الشعبية بكل أنواعها، والمسرح الجزائري، ومدى ارتباطه بالتراث الشعبي، وبالأخص الحكاية الشعبية وكيفية تعبيرها عن واقع الشعب الجزائري، وإصلاحه، وما قدمته للمجتمع.