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Poetics of love in the Arabic novel :

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0748655050

(Number (ISBN

0748655069

(Number (ISBN

0748655077

(Number (ISBN

1282002368

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6613795542

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9780748655052

(Number (ISBN

9780748655069

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9780748655076

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9781282002364

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9786613795540

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0748642730

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9780748642731

Erroneous ISBN

9780748655076

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bc1010320

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Poetics of love in the Arabic novel :

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[Book]

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nation-state, modernity and tradition /

First Statement of Responsibility

Wen-chin Ouyang.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Edinburgh :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Edinburgh University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2012]

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©2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (v, 298 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-290) and index.

Text of Note

Prologue: presenting the past: the Arabic novel and the dialectics of modernisation -- Nation-state -- Nation-without-state -- Legitimacy of the nation -- Impropriety of the state -- Decolonisation -- Modernisation -- Afterword: the future is a foreign country.

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Text of Note

The Arabic novel has emerged as a major genre in the Arabic literary field since the second half of the twentieth century. Gaber Asfour, a major Egyptian intellectual and critic, has termed the turn of the twenty-first century 'the age of the novel' in Arab culture. This book tells the story of the Arabic novel's search for form, taking stock of the ways in which the form and identity politics of this genre engage with aesthetics, ethics and politics in a cross-cultural context and from a transnational perspective. To date scholarship on the Arabic novel has been preoccupied with postcolonial or nationalist discourses on identity and culture. This book extends our understanding of the genre by moving beyond this approach to consider the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nation-state, modernity and tradition. It shows the ways in which the Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural exchanges between East and West, and past and present. It takes the love story as the central trope through which the Arabic novel tells the tale of its search for form in a world mapped by conflicting ideas. This tale is presented as a series of failed, illegitimate love affairs, all tainted by its suspicion of the legitimacy of the nation, modernity and tradition, and above all by its misgivings about its own propriety.

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22573/ctt3431zp

Title

Poetics of love in the Arabic novel.

International Standard Book Number

0748642730

Arabic fiction-- History and criticism.

Love in literature.

Amour dans la littérature.

Roman arabe-- Histoire et critique.

Arabic fiction.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- African.

Love in literature.

RELIGION-- Islam-- General.

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LIT-- 004010

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LIT004220

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Ouyang, Wen-chin.

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20220721235934.0

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270410

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