Abstracts in English and Arabic.

"رسسالة مقدمة لنيل درجة الماجستير في اللغة العربية (الأدبيات)."--On title page.

Thesis (MAAS)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).

This study focuses on two novels entitled "The Bamboo Stalk" by Saud Al-Sanousi and
"Interlock" by Abdullah Hussein's . This study discusses the framework of social issues
and artistic composition materialized in these novels. The purpose of this study is to
demonstrate their creative abilities in composing the two novels, as well as to disclose
the similarities and variations between them in terms of social issues and artistic
structures. Analysis and comparison are the two approaches that the researcher employs.
The researcher includes the novelists' biographies at the beginning of the study. This
study also compares the two novels' social issues and artistic frameworks, identifying
the manifestations of artistic innovation in each, before revealing their parallels and
variances in terms of vision and formation between the two novels: Arabic and
Malaysian. The researcher concluded that the two novels uncover common social issues
highlighted by the novelists, including their dialogue of rural features, the journey to
find a job, the preservation of religious rituals, symptoms of drug abuse, family
disintegration, and concern for descendants. The cost of life, social cooperation, belief
in witchcraft, and the issue of marriage were among the themes that they differed on.
The two novels were comparable in their artistic structures in the utilisation of some
artistic techniques, including the title metaphor and the fluency of the language, while
the two diverged to varying degrees in the employment of certain other techniques.