The Art of Epigram in the Flash Fiction of Samia Al-Atout
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https://doi.org/10.35516/Hum.2026.9685Keywords:
Epigram art, Narrative art , Samyah Al-Atout.Abstract
Objectives: The study aimsed to identify the concept of the art of epigram in order to identify its artistic features and reveal its manifestations through an applied art model. The methods of artistic experimentation in our modern literature have multiplied, to accommodate the contradictions and fragments of contemporary life, so this art came as a modernist art capable of containing this momentum, without neglecting the requirements of art and its aesthetic techniques. The study was bassed on Samia Al-Atout's story collections as texts rich in vision, artistic technique and aesthetic techniques that characterize the epigram. The study consists of a theoretical part that chronicles the term, shows its problem, and its origin, and ends with an applied part that stands at models of the texts of the storyteller Samia Al-Atout within a conception concerned with form, technical technique and content together.
Methods: The study relied on a textual analytical approach. The study was bassed on Samia Al-Atout's story collections as texts rich in vision, artistic technique and aesthetic techniques that characterize epigram. The study consists of a theoretical part that chronicles the term, shows its problem, and its origin, and ends with an applied part that stands at models of the texts of the storyteller Samia Al-Atout within a conception concerned with form, technical technique and content together.
Results: The study results showed that the epigram experimental art is based on the overlap of narrative and poetry together, and is characterized by density, and relies on coding and storytelling focused and sarcasm and intertextuality, cinematic techniques, and time shortcuts, has appeared in the texts of Samia Atout. Anecdotal.
Conclusion: The study showed that the art of epigram is the art of the intense flash that relies on irony, the use of the familiar language and rstructuring it to offer hints and insights that criticize the political and social reality via the employement of an artistic aesthetic and a coherent structure.
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