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This book is an in-depth study of the theory of narratology as applied to both the Arabic and the English novel with a special reference to selected novels by Naguib Mahfouz and John Fowles. The study is basically concerned with examining certain issues like discrepancies between story-time and discourse-time, characterization, the transmission process of narrative, voice, focalizer and embedded narratives. These are all employed as tools to decipher hidden and implied meanings through a deep analysis of the structure of narratives. The book, therefore, examines the usefulness of the theory of narratology in text interpretation.

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Dr. Dalia Saad M. Mansour is an associate professor at Misr International University - Egypt. She got her PhD in English Literature in 2004. She is mostly interested in narrative theory, comparative literature, film studies, and cognitive reception theories as reflected in her post-doctoral papers which are all considered interdisciplinary studies.

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