Mechanisms of Intertextualization in the Novel the Demon of Ashes for Ali Awad

Abstract

This study is one of the critical approaches that tries to read the literary achievement of the Iraqi novelist Ali Awad Abdullah in his novel Shatan ash, the novel winner of the Sharjah Creativity Award for 2023, our critical approach seeks to identify the novelist's tendency to employ previous texts with their various references and invest those texts to build his novel; as he is clearly betting on his linguistic peculiarity that allows him to create imaginative visions, which ensures the possibility of achieving interactivity between him and the reader in creating significance and betting on his consciousness in representing what this interactive artistic Reading produces.