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An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748696539
An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Author : Salih J. Altoma
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
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.
Author : Jonas Elbousty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317572890
Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is a truly representative collection of literary extracts from across the Arabic-speaking world. Extracts from each country in the Arab world have been carefully selected, with a balance of both male and female writers and prominent and emerging voices, providing a unique window into the Arab world. Suitable for both class use and independent study, each extract is supported by an introduction to the author, pre-reading activities, comprehension questions and discussion questions. These activities are designed to help learners expand and reinforce their vocabulary, develop their oral and written proficiency and stimulate further exploration of the cultural and historical background of the texts. Written entirely in Arabic, the Advanced Arabic Literary Reader is an essential text for advanced students who wish to further their reading, speaking, and writing ability in Modern Standard Arabic. Free audio recordings of the extracts are available online at www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138828698/ to enable students to improve listening skills.
Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307481484
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 : Sabry Hafez
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This is a key study text for students of Arabic language and literature.
Author : Michelle Hartman
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1603293167
Understanding the complexities of Arab politics, history, and culture has never been more important for North American readers. Yet even as Arabic literature is increasingly being translated into English, the modern Arabic literary tradition is still often treated as other--controversial, dangerous, difficult, esoteric, or exotic. This volume examines modern Arabic literature in context and introduces creative teaching methods that reveal the literature's richness, relevance, and power to anglophone students. Addressing the complications of translation head on, the volume interweaves such important issues such as gender, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the status of Arabic literature in world literature. Essays cover writers from the recent past, like Emile Habiby and Tayeb Salih; contemporary Palestinian, Egyptian, and Syrian literatures; and the literature of the nineteenth-century Nahda.
Author : Farhat Jacob Ziadeh
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780295958408
Author : Salih J. Altoma
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0810877066
Covering 60 years of materials, this bibliography cites translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. The volume serves as a guide to three interrelated data: o Translations that have appeared since 1950, as books or as individual items (poems, short stories, novel extracts, plays, diaries) in print-and non-print publications in Iraq and other Arab and English-speaking countries, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. o Relevant studies and other secondary sources including selected reviews and author interviews, which cover Iraqi literature and writers. o The scope of displacement or dispersion of Iraqi writers, artists, and other intellectuals who have been uprooted and are now living in exile in Arab or other Western countries. By drawing attention to a largely overlooked but relevant and extensive literature accessible in English, this first of its kind book will serve as an invaluable guide to students of contemporary Iraq, modern Arabic literature, and other fields such as women's studies, postcolonial studies, third world literature, American-Arab/Muslim Relations, and Diaspora studies.
Author : S.A. Bonebakker
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1948488906
A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed a superb teaching text, which he then asked his UCLA colleague, Michael Fishbein, to help him annotate and augment. The result is a truly valuable reader, one used widely in the United States and Europe, featuring judicious and instructive selections from such works as Ibn al-Qifti's Inbah al-ruwat, al-Tanukhi's al-Faraj ba'd al-shidda, and al-Dhahabi's Siyar a'lam al-nubala', among others.
Author : Farhat Jacob Ziadeh
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486428703
This guide's focus is modern literary Arabic, particularly the style employed by newspapers. Each chapter begins with a text embodying the points to be discussed, and the carefully chosen vocabulary terms are those that arise most often in spoken and written Arabic. A vocabulary list appears in the appendix.