The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction / / Matti Moosa.
The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development of Arabic fiction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five entirely new chapters—one on the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Historical Beginnings: Egypt
- 2 The Rise of the Arab Drama in Syria and Egypt
- 3 Yaqub Sanu and the Rise of the Arab Drama in Egypt
- 4 Abd Allah Nadim and the Art of the Popular Dialogue
- 5 The Translation of Western Fiction
- 6 The Revival of the Maqama
- 7 Salim al-Bustani and the Beginning of Modern Arabic Fiction
- 8 From Salim al-Bustani to Jurji Zaydan: Francis Marrash and Numan Abduh al-Qasatili
- 9 Jurji Zaydan and the Arab Historical Novel
- 10 Arabic Fiction Comes of Age
- 11 The Growth of the Egyptian Novel
- 12 The Egyptian Modernists and the Novel
- 13 Naguib Mahfouz: The Voice of Egypt
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book