The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199349797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 776 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions reflects the current status of research in the broad field of Arab novelistic traditions and signal toward new directions of inquiry.. Editor Waïl S. Finally, the Handbook concerns the multilingual character of the novel in the Arab world and by Arab immigrants and their descendants around the world, both in Arabic and in at least a dozen other languages. The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date. Hassan and his contributors describe a novelistic phenomenon which has pre-modern roots, stretching centuries back within the Arabic cultural tradition, and branching outward geographically and linguistically to every Arab country and to Arab writing in many languages around the world.The first of three innovative dimensions of this Handbook consists of examining the ways in which the Arabic novel emerged out of a syncretic merger between Arabic and European forms and techniques, rather than being a simple importation of the latter and rejection o
About the AuthorWaïl S. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism andCultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (OUP, 2011).. Hassan is a Professor of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism andCultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (OUP, 2011).. Waïl S. Hass