From New Values to New Aesthetics : Turning Points in Modern Arabic Literature. Vol. 1. From Modernism to the 1980s

• This volume includes 11 articles which cover a number of pivotal turning points in Arab societies which have inspired to new aesthetic values and forms of expression in Modern Arabic literature until the 1980s. Discussions center on themes such as psycho-social and existential factors leading to the rise of the Modern Arabic Novel, the East-West encounter and search for a modern Arab identity, the influence of avant-garde literary magazines, and the indelible imprint of Naguib Mahfouz in Arabic literary creativity.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Modern Arabic Literature

exile

identity

East-West

modernism

postmodernism

Modern arabisk litteratur

exil

identitet

öst-väst

modernism

postmodernism

Literature

Litteraturvetenskap

Literature

Litteraturvetenskap

Semitic Languages

Semitiska språk

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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