Poetics of the Main Parts of Speech in Sherzad Hassan's Novels

Abstract

 Poetics is a relatively recent concept in literary criticism compared to other concepts. Although its root is not new, dating back to Greek literature, especially to Aristotle’s book entitled ‘Poetics’, it was not as widespread as it is nowadays. For a long time, poetics had been relevant only to a specific literary genre, namely poetry. However, in the early twentieth century, researchers and scholars in the area of literary criticism began to pay great attention to poetics and researched it extensively in various scientific studies relevant to literary criticism. Subsequently, the term ‘poetics’ spread to many other fields, including music, painting, and architecture. Additionally, it became commonly used in many literary genres. One of the crucial aspects which influences the poetics of any literary text is the poetic language, including the main parts of speech such as nouns, pronouns, and verbs. Thus, the language of novels written by the famous Kurdish writer, Sherzad Hassan, is rich with poetic style, with a strong reliance on parts of speech, especially in the use of figures of speech, such as ‘oxymoronic images’ which result from the artistic use of the main parts of speech,  Additionally, these types of images are meaning-changing and there is a kind of distance between the two extremes of images. This creates semantic incompatibility. To find compatibility, there should be metaphors used in between to refer to them.