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      The Politics of Monologist Representation Translated title: ألاعيب التصوير المونولوجي

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            This article proffers a deconstructionist reading of the dramatic monologue and examines its rhetorical strategies and the politics of monologic representation, by which the first-person speaker/monologist monopolizes discursive space and over-represents himself, while silencing other voices in the text and refusing them the freedom and space to express themselves. Through a close analysis of monologist representation of the Other in various texts, including “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, “Devonshire Street W. 1” by John Betjeman, as well as Ron Carlson’s short story “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” (albeit a dramatic monologue in prose), this article seeks to expose the ways in which the poetic persona is always partial, interested, and subjective, with not-so-subtle an agenda, a speaker who passes value judgments on the human objects of his overbearing tone. By examining the politics of monologist representation against both Aristotelian ethos and Bakhtinian intonation, the article suggests that readers and critics can give voice to the voiceless in this elastic genre and abandon their sympathetic interpretations that practically absolve monologists of any bias towards their absent enemies or any politics of representation.

            تقدم هذه الدراسة قراءة تفكيكية مضادة للمونولوج الدرامي وتحلل الأساليب البلاغية وألاعيب التمثيل التي يلجأ إليها الراوي المونولوجي لاحتكار الفضاء الخطابي من خلال التمثيل الذاتي المفرط، وإسكات الأصوات الأخرى في النص وحرمانها من الحرية والفضاء للتعبير عن أنفسها .فمن خلال التحليل الدقيق لتمثيلات الآخر في بعض القصائد الإنجليزية مثل "إصلاح جدار" لروبرت فروست، "شارع دِڤِنشَر غرب 1" لجون بِتْجيمَن وقصة رون كارلسن "الغول اختطف زوجتي" (وهي مونولوج نثري)، تبين هذه الدراسة الأساليب التي تظهر بها الشخصية الشعرية دائمًا متحيزة وغير موضوعية، مع أجندة مكشوفة، ، كمتحدث يصدر أحكاماً قيمة على البشر عبر نبرته المتعجرفة. من خلال تحليل ألاعيب التمثيل المونولوجي مقارنة بـ نظريات أرسطو وباختين، يقترح المقال أن القراء والنقاد يمكنهم التعاطف مع من لا صوت لهم في هذا النوع الأدبي المرن والتخلي عن تفسيراتهم المتعاطفة التي تبرئ الراوي المونولوجي عمليًا من أي تحيز تجاه أعدائهم الغائبين أو أي ألاعيب تمثيلية.

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            10.2307/j50020020
            bethunivj
            Bethlehem University Journal
            Pluto Journals
            2521-3695
            2410-5449
            1 January 2021
            : 38
            : ( doiID: 10.13169/bethunivj.38.issue-2021 )
            : 127-149
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            Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Taif University, Saudi Arabia
            أستاذ الألأدب الإلإنجليزي والألأدب المقارن، جامعة الطائف، المملكة العربية السعودية
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            Education,Religious studies & Theology,Social & Behavioral Sciences,History,Economics,Life sciences
            objectivist posturing,representation,reader's enthrallment,التمثيل,التظاهر بالموضوعية,أسْر القارئ,dramatic monologue,المونولوج الد ا رمي

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