Author: David Tresilian
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 0863568025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the modern Arab world, Europe's closest neighbour, is not so far from us as we are sometimes encouraged to think. A timely contribution to the dialogue between East and West, bringing modern Arabic literature into the mainstream for English-speaking readers. 'Tresilian's book is not only informative about its subject but also provides thought-provoking messages to the general reader.' -- Denys Johnson Davies Banipal
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
Author: David Tresilian
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 0863568025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the modern Arab world, Europe's closest neighbour, is not so far from us as we are sometimes encouraged to think. A timely contribution to the dialogue between East and West, bringing modern Arabic literature into the mainstream for English-speaking readers. 'Tresilian's book is not only informative about its subject but also provides thought-provoking messages to the general reader.' -- Denys Johnson Davies Banipal
Publisher: Saqi
ISBN: 0863568025
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the modern Arab world, Europe's closest neighbour, is not so far from us as we are sometimes encouraged to think. A timely contribution to the dialogue between East and West, bringing modern Arabic literature into the mainstream for English-speaking readers. 'Tresilian's book is not only informative about its subject but also provides thought-provoking messages to the general reader.' -- Denys Johnson Davies Banipal
A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198265429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
Publisher: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198265429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Badawi gives a concise and authoritative survey, in English, of the whole whole of modern Arabic literature since the mid-19th century. He charts the efforts of Arab authors to meet the modern world in the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, aswell as in their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.
Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Paul Starkey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748696539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748696539
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt
Author: J. Brugman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004663037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004663037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
Author: Salih J. Altoma
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This indispensible guide to modern Arabic literature in English translation features not only a comprehensive bibliography but also chapters on fiction, drama, poetry, and autobiography, as well as a special chapter on Iraq's Arabic literature. By focusing on Najib Mahfuz, one of Arabic Literature's luminaries, and on poetry--a major, if not the major genre of the region-- Altoma assesses the progress made towards a wider reception of Arabic writing throughout the western world.
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This indispensible guide to modern Arabic literature in English translation features not only a comprehensive bibliography but also chapters on fiction, drama, poetry, and autobiography, as well as a special chapter on Iraq's Arabic literature. By focusing on Najib Mahfuz, one of Arabic Literature's luminaries, and on poetry--a major, if not the major genre of the region-- Altoma assesses the progress made towards a wider reception of Arabic writing throughout the western world.
An Introduction to Modern Literary Arabic
Author: David Cowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521092401
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding world language will prefer. It is the first to deal mainly with modern literary Arabic. In Mr Cowan's words: 'The purpose is to explain to the students, in as concise a manner as possible, the grammatical structure of the modern Arabic literary language as it is found today in newspapers, magazines, books, the radio, and public speaking. I have endeavoured to restrict the material to the minimum which may serve as a stepping-stone to a deeper study of Arabic. As the fundamental grammar of written Arabic has hardly changed as an introduction to the classical language also. Having once mastered its contents the student should have a sound grasp of Arabic grammar and can then direct his studies towards modern literature or classical according to his needs and inclinations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521092401
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding world language will prefer. It is the first to deal mainly with modern literary Arabic. In Mr Cowan's words: 'The purpose is to explain to the students, in as concise a manner as possible, the grammatical structure of the modern Arabic literary language as it is found today in newspapers, magazines, books, the radio, and public speaking. I have endeavoured to restrict the material to the minimum which may serve as a stepping-stone to a deeper study of Arabic. As the fundamental grammar of written Arabic has hardly changed as an introduction to the classical language also. Having once mastered its contents the student should have a sound grasp of Arabic grammar and can then direct his studies towards modern literature or classical according to his needs and inclinations.
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
Author: Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307481484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307481484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
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.
Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521331975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521331975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
Modern Arabic Fiction
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231132541
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
"Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists."--Jacket.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231132541
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
"Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists."--Jacket.
Modern Arabic Literature
Author: Roger Allen
Publisher: New York : Ungar Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Ungar Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description