An overview of modern Arabic literature

Author(s)

• Cachia, Pierre

Bibliographic Information

An overview of modern Arabic literature

Pierre Cachia

（Islamic surveys, 17）

Edinburgh University Press, c1990

• : [cloth]
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 218-228

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: [cloth] ISBN 9780748601325

Description

This compact survey of Arab literary activity in the 19th and 20th centuries examines the main trends associated with Arab literature and relates the writings to social conditions and political events of the period.

Table of Contents

• The assumptions and aspirations of Egyptian modernists
• the age of translation and adaptation, 1850-1914
• the development of a modern prose style
• the use of the colloquial in modern Arabic literature
• the critics
• the narrative genres
• the theatrical movement of the Arabs
• the treatment of themes relating to Christianity and Judaism in modern Egyptian drama and fiction
• idealism and ideology - the case of Tawfiq al-Hakim
• unwritten Arabic fiction and drama
• tradition, imitation and originality in poetry
• in a glass darkly - the faintness of Islamic inspiration in modern Arabic literature.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780748601776

Description

This survey of Arab literary activity in the 19th and 20th centuries examines the main trends associated with Arab literature and relates the writings to social conditions and political events of the period.

Table of Contents

• The assumptions and aspirations of Egyptian modernists
• the age of translation and adaptation, 1850-1914
• the development of a modern prose style
• the use of the colloquial in modern Arabic literature
• the critics
• the narrative genres
• the theatrical movement of the Arabs
• the treatment of themes relating to Christianity and Judaism in modern Egyptian drama and fiction
• idealism and ideology - the case of Tawfiq al-Hakim
• unwritten Arabic fiction and drama
• tradition, imitation and originality in poetry
• in a glass darkly - the faintness of Islamic inspiration in modern Arabic literature.

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Details

• NCID: BA11001417
• ISBN:
  • 0748601325
  • 0748601775
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 241 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PJ7538
  • DC20 : 892.709
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Arabic literature, 1800- - Critical studies
  • LCSH : Arabic literature -- 1801- -- History and criticism -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0112572X