TY  - BOOK
ED  - Badawī, Muḥammad Musṭafā
PY  - 1997
DA  - 1997//
TI  - Modern Arabic literature
T3  - The Cambridge history of Arabic literature
ET  - 1. publ., repr.
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
KW  - Literature
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
AB  - This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides an authoritative, comprehensive critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. With the spread of secular education, printing and journalism, a new reading public emerged. Against the background of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of nationalism, and the conflict between Islam and increasing Westernization, the traditional conception of literature as a display of verbal skill was replaced by the view that literature should reflect and indeed change social and political reality. A significant translation movement resulted in the borrowing of Western ideas and literary forms: the novel, the short story and drama. This book examines the attempts made by Arab men and women to adapt the new imported forms as well as the indigenous literary tradition to meet the requirements of the modern world. Quoted material is given in English translation, and there is an extensive bibliography
SN  - 9780521331975
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521331975
DO  - 10.1017/CHOL9780521331975
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by M. M. Badawi
ID  - 1651642109
ER  -