A Study of the Narrative and Discourse Strategies in Rabindranath Tagore Kabuliwala

Abstract

The qualitative study aims at exploring the way Rabindranath Tagore projected Narrative stylistic in his short story Kabuliwala. This study provides an overview of Narrative Stylistic. Paul Simpson Narrative Stylistic is taken as a theoretical framework. The research focuses on the medium of communication between the reader and narrator in Kabuliwala. This study reveals that the events of the story are depicted from narrator's point of view or other characters. The research paper also finds out that event and action happened and arrange in order. The use of language with accent and dialect is also examined. This thesis has analysed short story Kabuliwala through narrative stylistics where researchers have taken narrator along with major characters who fulfilled all the requirement of the theory. The methodology used for this research paper is descriptive approach and analytical method. This qualitative research finds out how narrative stylistics is portrayed in the short story Kabuliwala.