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    Narrative Time and Mode in Minkuhkuwah Zeyfleyelu Mae’tso and Hezike Nabey
    (Addis Ababa University, 2013-05) Gezae, Haile; Yazbec, Olga (PhD)
    This thesis tries to explore the structure and application of the major narrative techniques in Minkuhkuwah Zeyfleyelu Mae’tso and Hezike Nabey novels. In this respect the main aim of the thesis is identifying the major narrative techniques used in the selected books and analysing the recurring techniques and their structure. To accomplish the objective of the thesis, I have tried to review related and relevant literature regarding narratology. Thus, an attempt has been made to go through the two selected books in accordance with the application of the narrative techniques and their structures. Due attention has been given in application of narrative time and mode. In the analysis part, it is pointed out that in respect to narrative time, the two literary texts partake similar narrative time. The stories in these novels are presented in the form of long flashback and symbolic foreshadowing. Because of this, the reader might find him/her self, connecting incidents of information in the process of reading. Thus, this unnatural flow of events made them similar to achronological order of time. Speed up or acceleration is the second narrative time technique explored under narrative time with short discourse time and long story time. Both novels are presented through acceleration technique. Regarding frequency, it is found out that they have portrayed similar techniques. With dominancy of singulative presentation, both novels employed iterative and repetitive techniques. Hence, both novels happen to have similar structure in respect to narrative time. In both literary texts the amalgamations of different techniques helped the writers to stress on thematically concerned areas. Similarly, by employing the third person omniscient narrator, both narratives made the reader a passive recipient of information since every point is forwarded from the narrator’s perspective. On the other hand, some minor differences in narrative mode have been observed between the two novels. Comparatively, except in some very rare instances, Minkuhkuwah Zeyfleyelu Mae’tso employ very small amount of scenic presentation unlike Hezike Nabey. So, the use of summary and scenic presentation has direct and indirect significances on the theme. Generally from the analysis of the two novels, it can be concluded that they have employed similar narrative time techniques and slightly different narrative modes.