Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 571 p)
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map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521331978
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9780521331975
Series Statement:
The Cambridge history of Arabic literature
Content:
This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides an authoritative, comprehensive critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. With the spread of secular education, printing and journalism, a new reading public emerged. Against the background of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of nationalism, and the conflict between Islam and increasing Westernization, the traditional conception of literature as a display of verbal skill was replaced by the view that literature should reflect and indeed change social and political reality. A significant translation movement resulted in the borrowing of Western ideas and literary forms: the novel, the short story and drama. This book examines the attempts made by Arab men and women to adapt the new imported forms as well as the indigenous literary tradition to meet the requirements of the modern world. Quoted material is given in English translation, and there is an extensive bibliography
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-550) and index
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Introduction. The background / M.M. Badawi
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Translations and adaptations 1834-1914 / Pierre Cachia
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The Neo-classical Arabic poets / S. Somekh
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The Romantic poets / R.C. Ostle
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Modernist poetry in Arabic / Salma Khadra Jayyusi
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The beginnings of the Arabic novel / Roger Allen
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The mature Arabic novel outside Egypt / Roger Allen
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The Egyptian novel from Zaynab to 1980 / Hilary Kilpatrick
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The modern Arabic short story / Sabry Hafez
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Arabic drama : early developments / M.M. Badawi
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Arabic drama since the thirties / Ali Al-Raʻi
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The prose stylists / Pierre Cachia
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The critics / Pierre Cachia
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Arab women writers / Miriam Cooke
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Poetry in the vernacular / Marilyn Booth.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9780511519659
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521331975
