A Stylistic Study of the Novel "Ermia" by Reza Amirkhani

Style, in the art of writing fiction, as style in other literary genres, is a super norm in language, which shows the writer’s special system of feelings, thoughts, and his personal way of looking at the world. In contemporary era, although stylistics has been used as in the past, it has changed in terms of language use and literary feature. This has made contemporary writers have their own personal style, as in the pas. The special style used by Amirkhani in his works¡ in the terms of linguistic and literary is notable. The use of war terminologies, displacement of sentence elements, references to the Quran¡ writing the connected words apart, etc., are some of the prominent features of his language. Also the use of metaphor, description, and image¡ are other examples of his style. The prevailing centrality of his thoughts is showing the contrast and paradox that some of the soldiers after returning from the war are involved in, and this makes them keep away from people. The adapted method for the stylistic study of the novel Ermia is layer stylistics approach. In this method, the text of the novel is analyzed stylistically in the three linguistic, literary, and mental layers. At the linguistic level, the frequent verbal and linguistic elements used as verbal motifs or themes; at the linguistic level, the literary elements that create image and music; and finally, at the mental level, the prevailing mental and literary elements in the text of the novel have been demonstrated. This study attempts to reach the stylistic representation of the novel¡ in the three linguistic, literary, and mental levels.