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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | The view from within : writers and critics on contemporary Arabic literature ; a selection from Alif: journal of Comparative Poetics /edited by Ferial J. Ghazoul and Barbara Harlow. |
| Added Author: | Ghazoul, Ferial Jabouri Harlow, Barbara |
| Publisher: | Cairo : The American university in Cairo Press, 1994. |
| Pages: | vi, 295 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9774243277 |
| Notes: | c1994 by The American University in Cairo Press.Includes index.Includes biographies of contributors. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Ferial J. Ghazoul and Barbara Harlow -- My experience with writing / Radwa Ashour -- On reading the earth / Saadi youssef -- Intertextual dialectics / Gamal al-Ghitany -- Language, culture, and reality / Adonis -- Thoughts on change and the 'Blind Language' / Ghassan Kanafani -- The image of the city: wounded Beirut / Mona Takieddine Amyuni -- Brecht and the Egyptian political theater / Mahmoud el Lozy -- naguib Mahfouz and the sufi way / Hamdi Sakkut -- The mythmaker: Tayeb Salih / Ahmad Shams al-Din al-Haggagi -- Opaque and transparent discourse in Sonallah Ibrahim's works / Ceza Kassem Draz -- Force and transitivity: Bayram al-Tunisi and a poetics of anticolonialism / Marilyn Booth -- Poetic experimentation and the institution: the case of Ida'a 77 and Aswat / Samia Mehrez -- Interviews: On criticism and creativity / Shukry Ayyad -- On interpoetics / Jabra Ibrahim Jabra -- On the poetics of space / hassan Fathy -- Being and place / Mohamed Choukri -- The relative and the absolute in avant-g |
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