[PDF] A Brief Introduction To Modern Arabic Literature eBook

Author : David Tresilian
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0863568025

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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

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198265429

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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.

Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748696539

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

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521331975

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This volume provides an authoritative survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : M. M. Badawi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521290234

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A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years.

Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307481484

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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 : David Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521092401

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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.

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2000-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521776578

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An accessible introduction to Arabic literature from the fifth century to the present.