مجلة دراسات موصلیة

الملخص

Any literary text suggests its own structure. Accord to Roland Parth, if the written matter is a text and not a work, this is the case, for the work is a definite subject, as it is but a series of clauses within any book, i.e. the work is a production, whereas a literary text is an action within a book. Parth says “The difference between a work and a text, resembles that between production and productive activity”.
As to this final notion, my analysis of the story shall work. This is what I mean to prove after having applied analytic measures.
The story of professor Umar M. Al-Talib “King of the Bridge and River” is built on a Mosulian popular tale, which gives the story a first privacy, for the functional popular tale is a structure on which the author worked, after having freed it from its simple direct signification. The tale within the story gets its general frame out of its historical background, while gets its actuality after being injected with social and ethical signification’s as well as new artistic dimensions that gives the story another depth, that roots its movement from the first structure of a circulated popular tale, to its new artistic structure as a mature short story. Add to this, this popular tale grants the story a second privacy that can best be manifested throughout the narrative that functions a group of private Mosulian vocabulary, as well as the famous popular places and other appearances