Thresholds as Contextual Possible Worlds The Novel "The Bamboo Stem" is a pattern

Abstract

The research dealt with the role of Paratext as a textual strategy and an interpretive tool that contributes to the production of possible misleading worlds. Therefore, the study was limited to employing the concept of possible worlds according to Umberto Eco in analyzing the function of interpretive Paratext in the Bamboo Stalk novel. The identification of possible imaginary worlds was done by defining their individuals, then defining the characteristics of each individual by referring to the reference worlds as realistic cultural structures, and making comparisons between them and the worlds of the fictional novel. The proposal of the term “contextuality” and its application to these possible worlds created by the Paratext of the text was to distinguish them from the rest of the narrative worlds. It is anew term inspired by the term “contextual topic” of the semiotic researcher Abdel Latif Mahfouz, who was concerned with using it in analyzing the author's strategy and compositional actual author and his authoritative purposes that topped the Paratext contribute to define possible contextual worlds that may correspond, or contradict, the worlds of the narrative text. Where the threshold of the cover, publications, quotations and footnotes combined to create individuals whose characteristics changed, and changed as the reader progressed in reading, and moved him between the worlds of the possible novel and the world of reality as a cultural construct.