The Arabic Novel

Author : Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655052

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Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel by Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and traditionWen-Chin Ouyang explores the development of the Arabic novel, especially the ways in it engages with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective.Taking love and desire as the central tropes , the story of the Arabic novel is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition and, above all, by its misgiving about its own propriety.

Author : Samira Aghacy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474466783

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Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel by Samira Aghacy Pdf

By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of theoretical approaches to aging, particularly from the perspective of gender and feminism, to reconcile the biological and cultural understandings of old age.

Author : Hoda Elsadda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748669202

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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel by Hoda Elsadda Pdf

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national' canon of Egypt.

Author : Stefan G. Meyer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791447340

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The Experimental Arabic Novel by Stefan G. Meyer Pdf

Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.

Author : Maria Elena Paniconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351357234

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Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel by Maria Elena Paniconi Pdf

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the key role played by the coming of age novel in the definition and perception of modern Arab subjectivity. Exploring the role of Bildungsroman in shaping the canonical Egyptian novel, the book discusses the case of Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1913) as an example of early Arab Bildungsnarrative. It focuses on Latifa Zayyat’s masterpiece The Open Door and the novels of the 90es Generation, offering a gender-based analysis of the Egyptian Bildungsroman. It provides insightful readings about the function of the novel in women’s re-negotiation of social boundaries. The study shows how the stories of youth present universal themes such as the thwarted quest for love, the struggle for personal fulfilment, the desire to achieve a cultural modernity often felt as "other than self". The book is a journey in the Twentieth Century Egyptian Novel, seen through the lens of the transnational form of Bildungsroman. It is a key resource to students and academics interested in Arabic literature, comparative literature and cultural studies.

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Arabic fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037393720

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The Arabic Novel by Roger Allen Pdf

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106009076297

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The Arabic Novel by Roger Allen Pdf

Traces how the novel germinated in the classical Arabic narrative tradition, developed into the modern genre before World War II and has evolved since then. Updated from the 1982 edition to include examples of novels published since then, emerging trends, and new critical perspectives. Considers only novels written in the Arabic language. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004117636

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Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature by Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq Pdf

In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.

Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748696536

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Modern Arabic Literature by Paul Starkey Pdf

An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present

Author : Hoda Elsadda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748669189

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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel by Hoda Elsadda Pdf

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend. Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Author : Fabio Caiani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134121700

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Contemporary Arab Fiction by Fabio Caiani Pdf

This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Relying on literary theory and referring to comparative examples from other literatures, this study places its findings within a wider framework, defining what is meant by innovation in the Arabic novel, and the particular socio-political context in which it appears.

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307481481

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The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction by Denys Johnson-Davies Pdf

This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary sons and daughters. Among the Egyptian writers who laid the foundation for the Arabic literary renaissance are the great Tawfik al-Hakim; the short story pioneer Mahmoud Teymour; and Yusuf Idris, who embraced Egypt’s vibrant spoken vernacular. An excerpt from the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North, one of the Arab world’s finest, appears alongside the Libyan writer Ibrahim al-Koni’s tales of the Tuaregs of North Africa, the Iraqi writer Mohamed Khudayir’s masterly story “Clocks Like Horses,” and the work of such women writers as Lebanon’s Hanan al-Shaykh and Morocco’s Leila Abouzeid.

Author : Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī
Publisher : Studies in Arabic Literature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056203188

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The Postcolonial Arabic Novel by Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī Pdf

This work covers the postcolonial in Arabic fiction. It discusses and questions a large number of novels show cultural diversity in the Arab world. It highlights engagements with postcolonial issues that relate to identity formation, the modern nation-state, individualism, and nationalism.

Author : Samira Aghacy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748696253

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Writing Beirut by Samira Aghacy Pdf

Presents a geographical/spatial approach to Beirut seeking to understand how the city is imagined in fiction. This book focuses on the urban/rural divide, the city through panoramic views and pedestrian acts, the city as sexualised and gendered, and the city as a palimpsest. It provides a thorough overview of Beirut in the modern Arabic novel.

Author : Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655700

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Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel by Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel. The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage.