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The Sonic Ambience in Taha Hussein's Doaa Al Karawan

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Last updated: 20 Jan 2025

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     Sound is an essential property of the landscape. Soundscape studies the relationship between a landscape and the creatures that constitute its sounds. Murray Schafer considers sounds as ecological properties of landscape and he refers to the soundscape as "the acoustical characteristics of an area that reflect natural processes" (112)  Moreover, Krause B. (1987) describes the biological sounds of the living things as "biophony", and the non- biological sounds of rain, storms, wind, as "geophony".  Then "anthrophony" is added to describe the human- produced sounds.      Among all modern literary texts that teem with sounds, Taha Hussein's Doaa Al Karawan occupies a prominent place. Taha Hussein's fascination with sounds is outstanding particularly in choosing a singing bird to be a major character supporting the heroine of the novel. Furthermore, the novel is deliberately written in a poetic, rhetoric style to be suitable to its educational purpose which is giving a moral lesson. The curlew's presence is necessary for the author to enable him to reveal the inner thoughts of Amna. He uses it as a technical device to trace the development of the different stages of the plot. Besides the call of the bird which dominates most of the novel, there are other distinguished sounds. The sounds of different creatures such as the cock, frogs, dogs and owls accompany the main events of the novel to reflect the different states of the heroine. In addition to these sounds, various characters are depicted through their own voices and their reactions to different sounds around them.

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10.21608/qarts.2024.338513.2112

Keywords

sound, Soundscape, biophony, geophony, anthrophony, Ecology, Taha Hussein, Doaa Al Karawan, the curlew, sonic ambience, Rhetoric

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Manal Anwar Fathy

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Ahmed

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lecturer in the English Department Faculty of Arts, Fayoum University

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maf01@fayoum.edu.eg

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33

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64

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48262

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2024-07-01

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2024-11-22

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2024-07-01

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88

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117

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1110-614X

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1110-709X

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The Sonic Ambience in Taha Hussein's Doaa Al Karawan

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20 Jan 2025