The Image of the Implied Author and the Formulation of Value Judgments in the Novels of Wasini Al-A'raj

Abstract

This study offers an expanded rhetorical reading of selected novels by Wasini Al-A'raj، aiming to explore the image of the implied author، also known as the second version of the real author. This image takes shape in the reader’s mind through the narrative and structural choices that underlie the novel. The implied author is an imaginative construct produced by the text itself through narrative techniques and modes of representing events. The study focuses on identifying how values are represented and produced، and on the role of the implied author in formulating and shaping them through specific narrative events. The narrative stance is considered an active factor in value formation، while narrative strategies serve as a space for influencing and engaging thereader within the framework of narrative events and structural systems that shape the overall composition.