Theory into Practice: Narrative Analysis of the Short Story “Municipality and Stray Dogs”

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Mubarak Ali Lashari
Ayaz Afsar
Muhammad Khan Sangi

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The intention, this study was launched with, was to apply two narrative structure models of Roland Barthes and A. J. Griemas on a short story. For that purpose, the short story titled ‘Municipality and stray dogs’ was selected, which is written by well-known Sindhi short story writer, Khairu-un-nisa Jaffery. The paper finds the models and its implications to the fiction. In this context, through this paper, first of all Roland Barthes’s five codes were analysed and applied on the story, next the model propounded by A. J. Griemas was applied to the story and finally conclusion was given..

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