Pyeaam Abbasi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Pyeaam Abbasi plays a role.
Articles
2020. Dr(e)amatic encounters: The role of embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. English Text Construction 13:1, pp. 22–45
This article traces the textual elaboration and expansion of dreams as embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s modal system, the objective is to lay bare Coetzee’s staging of the possibility of encountering the other in the world of… read more | Article
2019. Closure in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: A cognitive approach. English Text Construction 12:1, pp. 1–28
This article explores the politics of J. M. Coetzee’s writing style in Disgrace. Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s theory of textual universe and Barbara Dancygier’s narrative space construction strategies, we argue that Coetzee’s narrative is set up to expose David Lurie’s deliberately distorted… read more | Article