Narrative Time Analysis In Tammar Maryam

Tä'ammarä Maryam is a corpus of narratives about the miracles performed byrnVirgin Mary. Although it is popular among the laity of the Ethiopian TewahidornOrthodox Church, after being introduced in the mid of the 15th century, it has notrnbeen investigated from the point of view of modern Narrative Theory. Aimed atrnanalyzing the narrative time of the Tä'ammarä Maryam that contains the collectionrnof recent miracles, this study discusses some features of the text. Setting,rnsignificance of miracles and the categories are among the features of the textrnconsidered .rnThe analysis of narrative time: order, duration and frequency, is mainlyrnbased on the relevant theory by Gerard Genette and Shlomith Rimmon-kenan.rnThe analysis of order showed that there a chorological presentation of events.rnThe examination of the duration of events in the narratives indicated that scenicrnrepresentation is in the form of prayer and prescriptive utterance. Acceleration isrnfound in the episodes that orients the story and in the group of miracles about thernprophecies of Virgin Mary. Pause in the story is prevalent only to exalt St. Maryrnwhile ellipsis is not in the stories.rnSingulative telling is common in the stories while repetitive narration is absent in arnstory but there are nine events that are recurrent in the corpus of storiesrnTä'ammmrä Maryam.rnAs a whole the analysis of narrative time indicates that each miracle isrnstructured from a perspective to create a single effect on the mass that hearsrn/reads/ it. This effect is persuading to honor and believe in the intercessory role ofrnVirgin Mary-as owed by Her Son, Christ.

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