The thresholds of writing in Arabic novel

The questions of the thresholds of writing in modern criticism have multiplied and diversified. The most important of these questions, which this book is concerned with, can be summarized as follows: – What is meant by the threshold or "paratext" ? And the counterpart of this question is what made the research open to define what the thresholds are. – What is the position of the discourse of thresholds in Arab criticism on one hand, and the narrative discourse on the other? – Can we present in this book an ontological project for the thresholds in Arab fiction, based on classifications and models that can be reached? These questions and others are what the book seeks to scrutinize in their essence, and it opens the door wide for more reflection and research on this emerging, interesting, and new topic in our Arab criticism. And from the wording of these questions, our modest attempt also enters, which essentially represents a new brick added to what others have laid in this field, without claiming that we have fully addressed the topic.