Reflective embedding in Arabic novel its forms and functions

This book is dedicated to studying the way reflexive embedding occurs in the Arabic novel, and reflexive embedding is the image within the image, meaning it is like a reflecting mirror and is also called tawghir, or abyss, or echo, or observation, or infinity in image and meaning, or taqeer. The origin of this technique is a well-known artistic technique in a style of visual art that transferred to theatrical art and cinema and from it to the novel.