An overview of modern Arabic literature
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An overview of modern Arabic literature
(Islamic surveys, 17)
Edinburgh University Press, c1990
- : [cloth]
- : pbk
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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
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: 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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